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Links to External Resources Nanomaterials
 * Nanotechnology R&D roadmap (2007)
 * Carbon nanotubes Fifield (2007)]
 * Invsee and Answers about Carbon
 * Carbon Nanomaterials: Building Blocks in Energy Conversion Devices includes 3D arrays and C capturing from CO2!
 * About nanomesh
 * DNA as nano-building blocks 2009
 * Self-assembly on silicon carbide nanomesh templates 2007
 * Playing Tetris at the nanoscale 2006

Bioengineering
 * Protein Bioengineering Overview Bishnoi and English (2007)
 * Rachel Armstrong about living architecture (Oxford, 2009)
 * Bionanotechnology @ Foresight.org

(Bio)nanorobotics
 * Aristides A. G. Requicha, Nanorobotics
 * Nanorobotics overview (Wikipedia)
 * Chemotactic Machines Rothemund (2007)
 * Special Issue on Current State of the Art and Future Challenges in Nanorobotics, 2009 a few selected papers:
 * R.A. Freitas Jr, Meeting the Challenge of Building Diamondoid Medical Nanorobots (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, Palo Alto)
 * A. Cavalcanti et al., Nanorobot for Brain Aneurysm (includes nanorobot architecture in form of a block diagram)
 * K.W.C. Lai et al., Automated Nanomanufacturing System to Assemble Carbon Nanotube Based Devices (Michigan State University)
 * Fukuda T. et al. Nanofabrication, Nanoinstrumentation and Nanoassembly by Nanorobotic Manipulation (Nagoya University)
 * Martel S. et al., Flagellated Magnetotactic Bacteria as Controlled MRI-trackable Propulsion and Steering Systems for Medical Nanorobots Operating in the Human Microvasculature
 * Sánchez S, Pumera M., Nanorobots: the ultimate wireless self-propelled sensing and actuating devices, 2009
 * J. Wang, Can man-made nanomachines compete with nature biomotors? 2009

CO2 capturing
 * Capturing Carbon Dioxide From Air
 * Synthetic Tree Captures Carbon 1,000 Faster Than Real Trees, 2009
 * Carbon Dioxide Captured Directly From Air With Simple Machine University of Calgary, 2008
 * The Greening of Power Plants Shallek A. 2006 CO2 - CNT conversion

Nanotechnology in construction
 * Nanoforum report, Nanotechnology and Construction, 2006
 * Freedonia Group Inc., Nanotechnology in Construction, 2007
 * 'Self-healing’ house, 2007
 * Nanotechnology in Construction 3, proceedings, 2009

Relevant Labs:
 * NanoRobotics Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University
 * IRIS, ETH
 * Laboratory for Biomolecular Nanotechnology, TU München
 * Bionanotechnology, Oxford