CAD at Nano Scale

I came across an article in ASME and thought you guys might find it interesting as well, so here I am sharing.
"The time has come for engineers to be able to customize their material exactly to the piece they’re designing.

As the advent of flexible electronics attests, the materials with which things are made are at the root of today’s product innovations.

The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Multiscale Systems Engineering Research Group, where I’m a faculty member, is working to integrate the modeling and simulation features of today’s CAD with materials design capability. These integrated features would be available at the nano, meso, micro, and macro scales, which we call multiscale CAD"

Read more: https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/design/cad-at-nano-scale
http://www.scienceclarified.com/Bi-Ca/CAD-CAM.html
http://www-old.me.gatech.edu/~ywang/researchNano.html

My first thought about nano scale is the effects due to the atomic or molecular structures.

Then, there's no more flat surface or straight lines, because of the size of atoms at the angstrom scale.

It's interesting to create a framework when 2D abstraction is still relevant, given the existence of atomic and molecular structures. My impression is that 3D approach is crucial for nano design.

James_S wrote

I came across an article in ASME and thought you guys might find it interesting as well, so here I am sharing.
"The time has come for engineers to be able to customize their material exactly to the piece they’re designing.

As the advent of flexible electronics attests, the materials with which things are made are at the root of today’s product innovations.

The Georgia Institute of Technology’s Multiscale Systems Engineering Research Group, where I’m a faculty member, is working to integrate the modeling and simulation features of today’s CAD with materials design capability. These integrated features would be available at the nano, meso, micro, and macro scales, which we call multiscale CAD"

Read more: https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/design/cad-at-nano-scale
http://www.scienceclarified.com/Bi-Ca/CAD-CAM.html
http://www-old.me.gatech.edu/~ywang/researchNano.html