Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation"Devices enormously smaller than before will remodel engineering,chemistry, medicine, and computer technology. How can we understandmachines that are so small? Nanosystems covers it all: powerand strength, friction and wear, thermal noise and quantumuncertainty. This is the book for starting the next century ofengineering." - Marvin Minsky MIT Science magazine calls Eric Drexler "Mr. Nanotechnology."For years, Drexler has stirred controversy by declaring thatmolecular nanotechnology will bring a sweeping technologicalrevolution - delivering tremendous advances in miniaturization,materials, computers, and manufacturing of all kinds. Now, he'swritten a detailed, top-to-bottom analysis of molecular machinery -how to design it, how to analyze it, and how to build it.Nanosystems is the first scientifically detailed description ofdevelopments that will revolutionize most of the industrialprocesses and products currently in use. This groundbreaking work draws on physics and chemistry toestablish basic concepts and analytical tools. The book thendescribes nanomechanical components, devices, and systems,including parallel computers able to execute 1020 instructions persecond and desktop molecular manufacturing systems able to makesuch products. Via chemical and biochemical techniques, proximalprobe instruments, and software for computer-aided moleculardesign, the book charts a path from present laboratory capabilitiesto advanced molecular manufacturing. Bringing together physics,chemistry, mechanical engineering, and computer science,Nanosystems provides an indispensable introduction to theemerging field of molecular nanotechnology. |
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... regions of stress on the surrounding medium . These regions can be characterized by their volume V≈ 3 ( for contact regions ) or ≈de2 ( for bands extending over a distance d ) , where is a measure of the scale of the region ( e.g. ...
... regions of stress on the surrounding medium . These regions can be characterized by their volume V≈ 3 ( for contact regions ) or ≈de2 ( for bands extending over a distance d ) , where is a measure of the scale of the region ( e.g. ...
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... region , with an independent set of families of structures . Given that the den- sity of vectors is approximately constant within a region of radius 1.5AV1 , each vector in the first region will have ( on the average ) N / 4 vectors in ...
... region , with an independent set of families of structures . Given that the den- sity of vectors is approximately constant within a region of radius 1.5AV1 , each vector in the first region will have ( on the average ) N / 4 vectors in ...
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... region O + positive dee electrode rotor - rim electrode negative dee electrode Figure 11.11 . Schematic diagram of an electrostatic motor ( not to scale ) . The dee electrodes and rotor - rim electrodes are conducting , the rotor ...
... region O + positive dee electrode rotor - rim electrode negative dee electrode Figure 11.11 . Schematic diagram of an electrostatic motor ( not to scale ) . The dee electrodes and rotor - rim electrodes are conducting , the rotor ...
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