Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation

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Wiley, Oct 23, 1992 - Technology & Engineering - 576 pages
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"Devices enormously smaller than before will remodel engineering, chemistry, medicine, and computer technology. How can we understand machines that are so small? Nanosystems covers it all: power and strength, friction and wear, thermal noise and quantum uncertainty. This is the book for starting the next century of engineering." - Marvin Minsky

MIT Science magazine calls Eric Drexler "Mr. Nanotechnology." For years, Drexler has stirred controversy by declaring that molecular nanotechnology will bring a sweeping technological revolution - delivering tremendous advances in miniaturization, materials, computers, and manufacturing of all kinds. Now, he's written 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 of developments that will revolutionize most of the industrial processes and products currently in use.

This groundbreaking work draws on physics and chemistry to establish basic concepts and analytical tools. The book then describes nanomechanical components, devices, and systems, including parallel computers able to execute 1020 instructions per second and desktop molecular manufacturing systems able to make such products. Via chemical and biochemical techniques, proximal probe instruments, and software for computer-aided molecular design, the book charts a path from present laboratory capabilities to advanced molecular manufacturing. Bringing together physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, and computer science, Nanosystems provides an indispensable introduction to the emerging field of molecular nanotechnology.

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Approach ( 1 ) is simple and workable for many purposes , but limits the nature of
operating environments . Approach ( 2 ) is analyzed in the next section .
Approach ( 3 ) would be preferable for some applications , but adding the
constraint of ...
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Scope and approach Like solution - phase chemistry , ' machine - phase
chemistry embraces an enormous range of ... In the absence of opportunities for
immediate experimentation , two options suggest themselves : The first approach
relies ...
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2b , reliable mechanochemical operations can in some instances approach
thermodynamical reversibility in the limit of slow motion . At 106 operations per
second , many processes in this class dissipate energies in the range
characteristic of ...

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Contents

Classical Magnitudes and Scaling Laws
23
Potential Energy Surfaces
36
Molecular Dynamics
71
Copyright

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TitleNanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation
AuthorK. Eric Drexler
Editionillustrated
PublisherWiley, 1992
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized29 Nov 2007
ISBN047157547X, 9780471575474
Length576 pages
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Computers / General
Technology & Engineering / Nanotechnology & MEMS
  
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