Nano-cars: Feynman's dream fulffiled or the ultimate challenge to Automotive
Industry
Marek T. Michalewicz
Bureau of Meteorology / CSIRO High Performance Computing and Communications Centre
CSIRO Mathematical and Information Sciences
24th Floor, 150 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
email: [email protected]
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This is an abstract
for a poster presented at the
Fifth
Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology.
The full paper is available at
http://www.mel.dit.csiro.au/~marek/papers/Palo_Alto/Nanotechnology.html.
The construction of the smallest possible car, a nano-car, is proposed. The size of this engineering artifact (as the name suggests)
would be ~ 10-9 m. This is billion times smaller than so popular street machines. The necessary structural elements are: four Ferric wheels,
two staffenes, graphitic sheets and as a reinforcing elements - buckytubes. The novel feature of this design is the propelling system: it is
embedded in the (antiferromagnetic) wheels which interact magnetically with the `road', or atomic substrate. The actual assembly procedure
details are left to the technologists. The scientific barriers and implications of this invention are discussed.
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