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SUBMITTER: Song Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6382908 | biostudies-other | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20190220 1
Early examples of computers were almost exclusively based on mechanical devices. Although electronic computers became dominant in the past 60 years, recent advancements in three-dimensional micro-additive manufacturing technology provide new fabrication techniques for complex microstructures which have rekindled research interest in mechanical computations. Here we propose a new digital mechanical computation approach based on additively-manufacturable micro-mechanical logic gates. The proposed ...[more]