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by jrkelly 4548 days ago
Why can't you use biology to do what you want there? Proteins have ~0.05nm precision at placing atoms and are programmable in three dimensions and biology is pretty good at working with carbon. It exceeds our genetic engineering ability today, but we're getting better. Semiconductor Research Corp recently put some money towards this: http://www.src.org/newsroom/press-release/2013/521/