Will nano technology allow buildings and structures to build themselves?

Question

Apparently the laws of Physics start to change the closer you get to the molecular level.

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Not in our lifetime....maybe robots but Nanotech...No....At least not building buildings anyway...at the minute the only applications for Nano technology are being brought through in the most basic of applications for example...they have made a completly non punctureable tyre based on Nano technonogy....& before you say anything yea i kow it's not what you imagined that they would do but you have gotta understand....Funding is always an issue so they try to push them in simple yet effictive applications to raise money.
One of the mishaps withe the Tyres so far is that the dust that comes off the tyres is very harmful to humans and once it rests in the lungs cannot be removed...it's actually worse than asbestos....so i think the tyres is off the road for the time being....but i guess you get the idea of how it works....they will put it into really simple applications, so basic first to raise money & then when they have the proper funding to do the research that they can really get the results they want will we see the results that we are all expecting...like actual cell to cell repair in the human body like cancer & what not.

Answer 3

nope... nanotech involve self assembly of particles in the nano scale (0.000000001 meter). We are a bit far away from buildings there. We have enough troubles growing a nanotube a few centimeters nevertheless a building.

However if we ever manage to do so, that will be the strongest structure imaginable.

Answer 4

There are buildings and structures that build themselves now without nano technology. The Japanese do it a lot now.

Answer 5

Hi,
I'm not honestly sure that nanotechnology is practicable in the sense of buildings repairing or building themselves. For instance,
a building would need to be made of biomechanical materials for this to happen and this may not happen in our lifetimes. If you missed the recent question on the subject of nanotechnology, see the link below.

Answer 6

More or less, yes.
Trees, even entire forests, grow from seeds, and reefs, even entire islands, grow from coral polyps.
Very large structures can be built by nanoscale devices.

Answer 7

as long a they are very very very small buildings

Answer 8

maybe in a few hundred years

Answer 9

if someone wants it to, maybe eventually. not for now.