Recent Patents in Bionanotechnologies: Nanolithography, Bionanocomposites, Cell-Based Computing and Entropy Production 

 -  Recent Patents on Nanotechnology, 2(2), p.72-83, 2004 .
<br/><br/> This article reviews recent disclosures of bio-inspired, bio-mimicked and bionanotechnologies. Among the patents discussed is a nanoscale porous structure for use in nanocomposites and nanoscale processing. Patents disclosing methods for printing biological materials using nanolithography techniques such as dip-pen technology are discussed, as are patents for optimizing drug design. The relevance of these technologies to disease prevention, disease treatment and disease resistance is discussed. The paper closes with a review of cell-based computing and a brief examination of how information technology has enabled the development of these technologies. Finally, a forecast of the how these technologies are likely to accelerate global entropization is discussed as well as a new classification of machine types. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>BIONANOTECHNOLOGY<br/>BIOMIMICKERY<br/>BIO-INSPIRED<br/>DIP-PEN<br/>NANOTECHNOLOGY<br/>PRINTING<br/>INFORMATION<br/>ENTROPY