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Perhaps nanotechnological devices could self-assemble inside the brain.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Perhaps nanotechnological devices could self-assemble inside the brain.
World Wide Mind Michael chorost 2011
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Professor Taylor's solution, as Rebecca Boyle writes in Popular Science, is to embed a nanoscale clump of material onto the photodiode, which would self-assemble into fractal shapes.
James M. Gentile: Advancing Technology Through Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration James M. Gentile 2011
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Dwyer has shown that these nanostructures will efficiently self-assemble, and when different light-sensitive molecules are added to the mixture, the waffles exhibit unique and “programmable” properties that can be readily tapped.
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There is no conclusive evidence that such molecules ever did, or could, spontaneously self-assemble on the prebiotic earth.
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Doesn't work here: automobiles don't self-assemble, molecules do.
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It's amazing that not only do proteins self-assemble — fold — but they do so amazingly quickly: some as fast as a millionth of a second.
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He was cross-legged on a broken office chair bought some time ago on the mid-level cheap from one of those furniture depots that flat-pack their quasi-Bauhausian self-assemble items and give them Swedish-sounding names.
Excerpt from Crackle 2010
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Ikea is slow living - have you ever put one of their self-assemble items together?
thrift Another Outspoken Female 2008
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MediaBytes is a true multi-media content engine that was designed to allow an audience of people who are interested in my thoughts about technology, media and entertainment to self-assemble.
A Serious Online Video Advertising Problem - Shelly Palmer - MediaBizBlogger 2009
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