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other devices that require to be very resistant and light -for example fuselage
of aircrafts-.
Like Carbon in form of fulerene, other materials based on Carbon could
be obtained when arrangements of atoms and molecules be manipulated.
The number of combinations in stable arrangements is huge. The condition
is to obtain a configuration of atoms of minimal electric and magnetic
energy. Each of those configurations will give an allotropic form, with
singular chemical and physical properties.
And, in the above way, materials with chemical, physical, mechanical,
electronical, optical, magnetical, electrical, etc., properties will be obtained
by design, to fit some predetermined characteristics. Hardness, conductiv-
ity, etc., for instance.
Future computation has particular problems derived from materials.
Transference, process, and storage of information are the origin of those
problems. Liquid crystals, optical fibers, polymer conductors, alloys, pho-
tocells, catalysts, inorganic polymers, superconductors, photonic materials,
ceramics, etc., are investigated to solve those problems.
Nanotechnology will depend on manipulation of diverse material atoms.
Molecular architecture will be possible. And electromechanical systems in
miniature, at molecular size, will be obtained.
Molecular size mechanisms will be possible. At their time, these molecu-
lar machines could be used in construction of other molecules. With them,
the structure of the cell could be manipulated, for instance. And when
the cell be manipulated, cures of human body, at molecular level, will be
possible. For example, unfetter of blocked arteries; demolition of tumors,
etc.
Before nanotechnology - or better, femtotechnology, or the way down
to yoctotechnology- be a reality manipulating atom by atom -or proton
by proton, or better quark by quark and lepton by lepton-, technology
of superconductors, of alloys, of semiconductors, of ionic implants, of X
ray lithography, deposition of materials by molecular beams, deposition of
materials by transmission electronic microscope, etc., will be applied and
perfected.
Physicists, using the technique of electronic microscopy, deposit layers
of atoms of 30 Angstroms of thickness. Also they fabricate lasers based on