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=== Molecular nanotechnology ===
'''Molecular nanotechnology''' represents a rather hypothetical area of nanotechnology application, where useful applications cannot be expected within the horizon of a few years. The goal is the construction of complicated systems (machines), whose structural and functional elements are individual molecules. A relatively popular term is a '''nanobot''', i.e. an autonomously behaving robot of nanometer dimensions constructed precisely by the methods of molecular nanotechnology.