What are the Potential Benefits of MNT (Molecular Nanotechnology)?
Molecular nanotechnology (MNT) is a breakthrough science that combines principles of chemistry, biology and physics to propose microscopic devices on the nano-scale that would mechanochemically manipulate individual atoms and molecules for the purpose of constructing materials, eradicating disease, and restoring the environment; thus making the potential benefits of MNT wide-ranging and revolutionary. MNT is based on the knowledge that basic biochemical and biophysical processes at work at the molecular level mimic industrial assembly machinery on a microscopic scale. This is perhaps most easily seen in the example of DNA which is a molecular chain of instructions for building a macroscopic structure from the bottom up. The “tools” that do the actual building are natural biochemical processes. By harnessing those processes in the form of direct manipulation at the atomic level and augmenting them with computerized biomechanical control, a new era of possibility opens. To name just a fe
