# Could nanotechnology do the same things as microfluidic devices? # Could nanotechnology do the same things as microfluidic devices [Where is my Flying Car?: Feynman could have saved your life](https://wimflyc.blogspot.com/2021/02/feynman-could-have-saved-your-life.html) Of course, this also raises the question of what can microfluidic devices do? It seems like it boils down to processing one single [droplet, cell] at a time. Which in its own right is reducing stochasticity. [[Stochastic to deterministic lie on a continuum]]. It actually suggests an answer to [[What are the ways that nature uses to reduce stochasticity?]] — by creating bottlenecks. In a way that’s sort of what catalysts and enzymes are too. Speculatively, could nanofluidics be a way to reduce stochasticity such that molecular machines could work on things? What would happen if you put a MOF in a microfludic channel? ### Related * [[The biggest blocker to positional chemistry is ill-defined goals]] * [[We need new design methods for positional chemistry systems]] * [[What is positional chemistry good for?]] [Web URL for this note](http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Could+nanotechnology+do+the+same+things+as+microfluidic+devices) [Comment on this note](http://via.hypothes.is/http://notes.benjaminreinhardt.com/Could+nanotechnology+do+the+same+things+as+microfluidic+devices)