MM footnotes

From Wise Nano

1. Scaling laws are explored in detail in Chapter 2 of Nanosystems, available online at http://www.foresight.org/Nanosystems/ch2/chapter2_1.html

2. Shalom Wind, Joerg Appenzeller, Richard Martel, Vincent Derycke and Phaedon Avouris, "Vertical Scaling of Carbon Nanotube Field-Effect Transistors Using Top Gate Electrodes", May 20 2002, Applied Physics Letters, http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/news.20020520_nanotubes.html

3. "Vibration-assisted electron tunneling in C140 single-molecule transistors", A. N. Pasupathy, J. Park, C. Chang, A. V. Soldatov, S. Lebedkin, R. C. Bialczak, J. E. Grose, L. A. K. Donev, J. P. Sethna, D. C. Ralph, and Paul. L. McEuen, Nano Lett.; 2005; 5(2) pp 203-207, http://www.lassp.cornell.edu/lassp_data/mceuen/homepage/pubs.html

4. http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2005/050201a.html

5. Amar H. Flood, J. Fraser Stoddart, David W. Steuerman, and James R. Heath, "Whence Molecular Electronics?" Science, Dec 17 2004: 2055-2056, http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=5718

6. 1 zJ or zeptojoule = 10^-21 joules.

7. For example, see "Casing an Assembler" by Ralph Merkle, Nanotechnology 10 (1999) 315-322, http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT6/Papers/Merkle/

8. This calculation is from Appendix A of “Design of a Primitive Nanofactory”; see also Sec. 8.5.

9. http://discuss.foresight.org/~josh/Ufog.html

10. http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/883Toth-Fejel.pdf

11. http://ants.gsfc.nasa.gov/

12. The Assembler, September 1996, http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/

13. A. Klibanov describes his 1983 discovery that enzymes can work without water or indeed any solvent in this article: http://www.winstonbrill.com/bril001/html/article_index/articles/1-50/article32_body.html

14. Sullivan, Terena P.; van Poll, Maaike L.; Dankers, Patricia Y. W.; Huck, Wilhelm T. S., "Forced peptide synthesis in nanoscale confinement under elastomeric stamps," Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2004), 43(32), 4190-4193

15. Robert Freitas and Ralph Merkle are proponents of this approach. See http://www.foresight.org/stage2/mechsynthbib.html and http://www.foresight.org/stage2/project1A.html

16. http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~bingalls/BIRS/abstracts/seeman.html

17. http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/AdvNano2004/Abstracts/Schafmeister/

18. Michael J. Marsella, Rodney J. Reid, Samia Estassi, and Li-Sheng Wang, “Tetra[2,3-thienylene]: A Building Block for Single-Molecule Electromechanical Actuators”, J. AM. CHEM. SOC. 2002, 124, 12507-12510.

19. Patrick A. Anquetil, Hsiao-hua Yub, John D. Madden, Peter G. Madden, Timothy M. Swager, and Ian W. Hunter, “Thiophene-based conducting polymer molecular actuators”, Smart Structures and Materials 2002: Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD), Yoseph Bar-Cohen, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4695 (2002)

20. Calculations in this section are based on Nanosystems Sec. 3.5 and Fig. 3.10 d.

21. See Sec. 3.2.1 and 3.2.2 of the “Primitive Nanofactory” paper for detailed calculations and further discussion of the applications of ridge joints. http://www.jetpress.org/volume13/Nanofactory.htm#s3.2.1

22. See Nanosystems Ch. 12.

23. An illustration of this architecture is online at http://lizardfire.com/nanofactorySS/index.htm

24. The discussion of design in section 5 of the “Primitive Nanofactory” paper applies here, with the additional freedom of specifying empty volumes and not having to worry about large-scale joints between large blocks-of-blocks.

25. See Nanomedicine 6.4.3.4, available online at http://nanomedicine.com/NMI/6.4.3.4.htm