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>Bottom-up approaches seek to have smaller (usually molecular) components built up into more complex assemblies, while top-down approaches seek to create nanoscale devices by using larger, externally-controlled ones to direct their assembly.

Absolutely perfect, thanks :) I never knew there were precise uses of these terms, they've always seemed overly-general to me.




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