Some Experiments and Directions in Molecular Computing and Robotics

In this review I present a chemist’s perspective on molecular computing and molecular robotics. I start with nucleic acid catalysts and then show how the application of some concepts from computer sciences and macroscopic robotics enable engineering of interesting behaviors in molecular systems.

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