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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... single - electron wave functions , each consistent with the electrostatic potential of the rest ( in practice , more efficient iterative procedures are employed ) . Each single - electron wave function corresponds to a molecular orbital ...
... single point ; the configuration space for an N particle system has 3N dimensions . Conformation A molecular geometry that differs from other geometries chiefly by rotation about single or triple bonds ; distinct conformations ( termed ...
... single bonding orbital in which the distribution of shared elec- trons has a roughly cylindrical symmetry about the axis linking the two atoms ; see ° pi bond , single bond , double bond , tri- ple bond . By themselves , sigma bonds ...
Contents
Classical Magnitudes and Scaling Laws | 23 |
Potential Energy Surfaces | 36 |
Molecular Dynamics | 71 |
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