/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3683929

Well technically we've already sort of demonstrated this:

http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v90/i17/e176102

Pic quite related. But we can't really automate the process much.

>>3556286

Pic related. In 1990 we could push atoms above a surface, but this is not bond breaking/forming. Ten years later we used the same technology (AFM) to demonstrate mechanosynthesis on Silicon surfaces.

This is harder to extend to diamond because Silicon can be cleaned by heating it in a vacuum, to depassivate the surface for working on it. Diamond, not so much.