A quick two-page "In The News" article in the October 18 issue of _Nature_. Here's the lead-in:

"It all falls into place...

Researchers working on molecular self-assembly have never lacked ambition, but their dreams of producing commercially viable devices always looked like a distant goal. That may be about to change, says Philip Ball."

"Imagine a future in which computers build themselves. The nanoscale components of these machines would simply be brought together in solution and stirred gently. By tweaking the chemistry of the components so that some are attracted to each other, while others are repelled, the individual parts would assemble themselves, as if by magic, into a working whole." [...]

On the verge of molecular self-assembly?