The bottom-up approach is a strategy for processing information, which alongside the top-down approach, is used in a number of research fields. Credit: Katryna Kon/Shutterstock.com By piecing together ...

“A top-down approach starts with a big picture, breaking it down into smaller components until achieving the objective. A bottom-up approach starts with small, individual components and builds to a ...

At the heart of bottom-up nanotechnology lies a process driven by thermodynamics and kinetics, rather than the deterministic approaches characteristic of top-down methods. This fundamental difference ...