/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3806297

>I don't ask for votes. That's why I was made moderator.

HYDROCARBON ASSEMBLERS

But we're nowhere near the technology, so, maybe you can clump together some atoms into lumps of amorphous Carbon and use it in an ordinary 3D printer.

>Also I thought "Optional" was a very cool/unusual middle name.

Also not third world.

Silly OP, everyone knows the Last Frontier is not space, but inside.

>>3551860

Which will enable faster, more accurate molecular dynamics and speed up progress in the field. Eventually the nanofactory will grow in the set of things it can print, until we get to the point where we have a nanofactory capable of producing 'nearly anything' -- However I don't think this will happen any time in the near future. Still, a 'simple' diamondoid nanofactory... Is more than enough.

[1]: http://www.thefutureandyou.libsyn.com/the-future-and-you-march-23-2011
[2]: http://www.halcyon.com/nanojbl/NanoConProc/nanocon2.html
[3]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7un3sLKnr2I
[4]: http://nanoengineer-1.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Strained-shell_Sleeve_Bearing
[5]: http://nanoengineer-1.net/mediawiki/index.php?title=Universal_Joint

>>3205652

There's
>http://www.zyvex.com/
and companies that provide STM/AFM tooltips, tool. Most applications of nanotechnology are either in computing or materials for construction and clothes, so far a proto-mechanosynthesis kinda thing has been proven on a Silicon surface (Since it's far easier to work with than diamond).

>>3190644

It's a design constraint, mechanosynthesis as described by Drexler, Freitas, Merkle etc. only works on diamond surfaces, AFAIK.

Of course a combination of dry nanotech and biotech is not entirely in the realm of imagination, with which you could make proteins.