Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation"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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On a nanoscale, mechanical motions are identified with the displacements of
nuclei, but electronic activity can cause such motions. Nevertheless, many
systems (e.g., the bearing in Figure 1.1) can be described by molecular
mechanics ...
The characteristic speeds and frequencies of nuclear motion are accordingly
much lower than those of electronic motion. The Born-Oppenheimer
approximation treats nuclei as motionless and computes the wave function and
energy for a ...
Electromechanical devices Except in discussing certain damage and error
mechanisms, all systems considered so far have been assumed to be in their
electronic "ground states, with their properties determined entirely by the
arrangement of ...
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Contents
Classical Magnitudes and Scaling Laws | 23 |
Potential Energy Surfaces | 36 |
Molecular Dynamics | 71 |
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| Title | Nanosystems: molecular machinery, manufacturing, and computation Wiley-interscience publication |
| Author | K. Eric Drexler |
| Contributor | K. Eric Drexler |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Wiley, 1992 |
| ISBN | 0471575186, 9780471575184 |
| Length | 556 pages |
| Subjects | › Computers / General Computers / Reference Technology & Engineering / Nanotechnology & MEMS |
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