Design of Diamondoid Nanomachines
Institute for
Molecular Manufacturing
This is an abstract
for a talk to be given at the
Fifth
Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.
There will be a link from here to the full article when it is
available on the web.
The constraints of predictability, stability, and positional
control in the face of thermal vibration all favor the use of
diamondoid covalent structures in future nanomachines.
Present-day experience with design and computational modeling of
such devices has generated useful design heuristics, including
reasons for favoring diamondoid materials with many noncarbon
atoms. This talk will review examples of goals and results in
nanomachine design, along with the status of methods, tools, and
computational modeling for design, testing, redesign, and
verification.
*Corresponding Address:
K. Eric Drexler, Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular
Manufacturing, 123 Fremont Ave, Los Altos CA 94022 USA, phone:
650 917 1120, fax: 650 917 1123, email: [email protected]
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