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Wet nanotechnology (also known as wet nanotech) involves working up to large masses from small ones.〔 Wet nanotechnology requires water in which the process occurs.〔 The process also involves chemists and biologists trying to reach larger scales by putting together individual molecules.〔http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/dyeager/599/newtechnologyparti_files/v3_slide0205.htm Contemporary Tech〕 While Eric Drexler put forth the idea of nano-assemblers working dry, wet nanotech appears to be the likely first area in which something like a nano-assembler may achieve economic results.〔 Pharmaceuticals and bioscience are central features of most nanotech start-ups.〔http://www.questia.com/read/113729011?title=7%3A+Wet+Nanotech ; Book by William Illsey Atkinson "Nanocosm: Nanotechnology and the Big Changes Coming from the Inconceivably Small" (c) 2003〕 Richard A.L. Jones calls nanotechnology that steals bits of natural nanotechnology and puts them in a synthetic structure ''biokleptic nanotechnology''.〔 He calls building with synthetic materials according to nature's design principles ''biomimetic nanotechnology''.〔 Using these guiding principles could lead to trillions of nanotech robots, that resemble bacteria in structural properties, entering a person's blood stream to do medical treatments.〔http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/physics/research/nano/pdfs/N15ND05.pdf Nanotechnology: radical new science or plus ça change?—the debate1〕 ==Background== Wet nanotechnology is a fairly new area of nanotech that is going to mostly be dominated by the different forms of wet engineering. The processes that will be used are going to take place in aqueous solutions and are very close to that of bio-molecular manufacturing; this deals greatly with the creation of things like proteins found in our body such as DNA. In order for mankind to mimic these nanoscale machines in a way that they could be produced with some efficiency, they must look into bottom-up manufacturing. Bottom-up manufacturing deals with manipulating individual atoms during the manufacturing process, so that there is absolute control of their placement and interactions. Then from the atomic scale, nanomachines could be made and even be designed to self-replicate themselves as long as they are designed in an environment with copious amount of the needed materials. Because individual atoms are being manipulated in the process, bottom-up manufacturing is often referred to as “atom by atom” manufacturing.〔 If the manufacturing of nanomachines can be made more readily available through improved techniques, there could be a large economic and social impact. This would start with improvements in making microelectromechanical systems and then would allow for the creation of nanoscale biological sensors along with things that have not been thought of yet.〔 This is because “wet” nanotech is only in the beginning of its life. Scientists and engineers alike feel that biomimetics is a great way to start looking at creating nanoscale machines.〔 Humans have only had a few thousand years to try to learn about the mechanics of things at really small scales. However, nature has been working on perfecting the design and functionality of nanomachines for millions of years. This is why there are already nanomachines, such as ATP synthase, working in our bodies that have on unheard of 95% efficiency. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wet nanotechnology」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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