A proposed 'metabolism' for a hydrocarbon assembler

Nanotechnology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 149-162

  Merkle, Ralph C ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLENE; MOLECULES;

DIACETYLENE; HYDROCARBON ASSEMBLERS;

NANOTECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0031344025     PISSN: 09574484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-4484/8/4/001     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Brenner D W 1990 Empirical potential for hydrocarbons for use in simulating the chemical vapor deposition of diamond films Phys. Rev. B 42 9458-71
2. Brenner D W, Sinnott S B, Harrison J A and Shenderova O A 1996 Simulated engineering of nanostructures Nanotechnology 7 161-7
3. Drexler K E 1986 Engines of Creation Anchor & Doubleday
4. Drexler K E 1992 Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation (New York: Wiley)
5. Foresman J B and Frisch A 1996 Exploring Chemistry with Electronic Structure Methods 2nd edn (Pittsburgh, PA: Gaussian)
6. Frisch M J et al 1995 Gaussian 94, Revision B.2 (Pittsburgh, PA: Gaussian)
7. Kiang Ching-Hwa and Goddard W A 1996 Polyyne ring nucleus growth model for single-layer carbon nanotubes Phys. Rev. Lett. 76 2515-18
8. Merkle R C 1992 Self replicating systems and molecular manufacturing J. British Interplan. Soc. 45 407-13
9. Merkle R C 1993 Molecular manufacturing: adding positional control to chemical synthesis Chemical Design Automation News 8
10. Merkle R C 1994 Self replicating systems and low cost manufacturing The Ultimate Limits of Fabrication and Measurement ed M E Welland and J K Gimzewski (Dordrecht: Kluwer) pp 25-32
11. Merkle R C 1996a Design considerations for an assembler Nanotechnology 7 210-15
12. Merkle R C 1997a Binding sites for use in a simple assembler Nanotechnology 8 23-8
13. Merkle R C 1997b A new family of six degree of freedom positional devices Nanotechnology 8 47-52
14. Musgrave C B, Perry J K, Merkle R C and Goddard W A 1991 Theoretical studies of a hydrogen abstraction tool for nanotechnology Nanotechnology 2 187-95
15. Shostakovskii M F and Bogdanova A V 1974 The Chemistry of Diacetylenes (New York: Wiley)
16. Sinnott S B, Colton R J, White C T and Brenner DW 1994 Surface patterning by atomically-controlled chemical forces: molecular dynamics simulations Surf. Sci. 316 L1055-60
17. Smalley R E 1997a Chemistry on the nanometer scale http://cnst.rice.edu/NanoWelch.html
18. Smalley R E 1997b private correspondence
19. Walch S P 1996 unpublished