[extropy-chat] Casimir Torque Project

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 06:01:31PM -0700, Adrian Tymes wrote:
> --- Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> > So you're going to tackle molecular manufacturing right after you're
> > done
> > with perpetuum mobile. Cool. Drop us a line when you're done.
> 
> If only things were that easy.  ^_^;
> 
> > Kidding aside, have you considered functionalizing your MEMS/NEMS?
> > You'd have
> > to do wet chemistry for that, though, too.  
> 
> Define "functionalizing".  I'm just aiming for a discrete unit,

Chemical functionalising, attaching functional groups to the surface of your
discrete MEMS/NEMS part. By bringing such differently functionalized parts into
proximity of your reaction site (e.g. by shuttling them on a plane surface) 
you'd do chemistry by numeric control (mechanosynthesis).

Both silicon and CNTs are easy to functionalize. 

> interacting with the outside world only by providing a (near) constant
> voltage differential between two areas on its surface, built by
> traditional top-down approaches.

While direct writing as a pure top-down technique scales from macro to nano,
you can also combine top-down and bottom-up (such as functionalizing ~nm parts).

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