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Book SynopsisDevices enormously smaller than before will remodel engineering,chemistry, medicine, and computer technology. How can we understandmachines that are so small? Nanosystems covers it all: powerand strength, friction and wear, thermal noise and quantumuncertainty. This is the book for starting the next century ofengineering. - Marvin Minsky
MIT Science magazine calls Eric Drexler Mr. Nanotechnology.For years, Drexler has stirred controversy by declaring thatmolecular nanotechnology will bring a sweeping technologicalrevolution - delivering tremendous advances in miniaturization,materials, computers, and manufacturing of all kinds. Now, he''swritten 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 ofdevelopments that will revolutionize most of the industrialprocesses and products currently in use.
This groundbreaking work draws on physics and che
Table of ContentsPHYSICAL PRINCIPLES.
Classical Magnitudes and Scaling Laws.
Potential Energy Surfaces.
Molecular Dynamics.
Positional Uncertainty.
Transitions, Errors, and Damage.
Energy Dissipation.
Mechanosynthesis.
COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS.
Nanoscale Structural Components.
Mobile Interfaces and Moving Parts.
Intermediate Subsystems.
Nanomechanical Computational Systems.
Molecular Sorting, Processing, and Assembly.
Molecular Manufacturing Systems.
IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES.
Macromolecular Engineering.
Paths to Molecular Manufacturing.
Appendices.
Afterword.
Symbols, Units, and Constants.
Glossary.
References.
Index.
