Publications of the Nanofactory Collaboration

2000-present

 

This list includes publications, studies, patents, lectures, or works in progress by participants in the Nanofactory Collaboration since 2000 (when the collaboration began), describing research that supports or is expected to lead directly to diamond mechanosynthesis and the creation of a functioning nanofactory, built primarily of diamondoid materials, that is able to manufacture products made of diamondoid materials.

An annotated bibliography on diamond mechanosynthesis can also be found here.

25. Robert A. Freitas Jr., J. Storrs Hall, Fundamentals of Nanomechanical Engineering, in preparation.

24. Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, Diamond Surfaces and Diamond Mechanosynthesis, Landes Bioscience, in preparation; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/DSDM.htm

23. Damian G. Allis, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, “Single-Atom Radical-Exchange Mechanosynthetic Transfer Reactions for Period 1,2,3,4 Elements using Monosubstituted Adamantane Tools and Workpieces,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. (2014). In preparation.

22. Denis Tarasov, Ekaterina Izotova, Diana Alisheva, Natalia Akberova, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Optimal Approach Trajectories for a Hydrogen Donation Tool in Positionally Controlled Diamond Mechanosynthesis,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 10(September 2013):1899-1907. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jctn/2013/00000010/00000009/art00001 (abstract), http://www.molecularassembler.com/Papers/TarasovSep2013.pdf (paper)

21. Denis Tarasov, Ekaterina Izotova, Diana Alisheva, Natalia Akberova, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Structural Stability of Clean and Passivated Nanodiamonds having Ledge, Step, or Corner Features,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 9(January 2012):144-158. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jctn/2012/00000009/00000001/art00023 (abstract), http://www.molecularassembler.com/Papers/TarasovFeb2012.pdf (paper)

20. Damian G. Allis, Brian Helfrich, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, “Analysis of Diamondoid Mechanosynthesis Tooltip Pathologies Generated via a Distributed Computing Approach,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 8(July 2011)1139-1161. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jctn/2011/00000008/00000007/art00009 (abstract), http://www.molecularassembler.com/Papers/AllisHelfrichFreitasMerkle2011.pdf (paper)

19. Denis Tarasov, Ekaterina Izotova, Diana Alisheva, Natalia Akberova, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Structural Stability of Clean, Passivated, and Partially Dehydrogenated Cuboid and Octahedral Nanodiamonds up to 2 Nanometers in Size,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 8(2011)147-167; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/TarasovFeb2011.pdf (paper)

18. Robert A. Freitas Jr., “A Simple Tool for Positional Diamond Mechanosynthesis, and its Method of Manufacture,” U.S. Patent No. 7,687,146, issued 30 March 2010; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/US7687146.pdf

17. Denis Tarasov, Natalia Akberova, Ekaterina Izotova, Diana Alisheva, Maksim Astafiev, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Optimal Tooltip Trajectories in a Hydrogen Abstraction Tool Recharge Reaction Sequence for Positionally Controlled Diamond Mechanosynthesis,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 7(February 2010):325-353; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/TarasovFeb2010.pdf (paper)

16. Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, “A Minimal Toolset for Positional Diamond Mechanosynthesis,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 5(May 2008):760-861; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/MinToolset.pdf (paper). Provisional patent application submitted on 7 September 2007.

15. Berhane Temelso, C. David Sherrill, Ralph C. Merkle, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Ab Initio Thermochemistry of the Hydrogenation of Hydrocarbon Radicals Using Silicon, Germanium, Tin and Lead Substituted Methane and Isobutane,” J. Phys. Chem. A 111(15 August 2007):8677-8688; http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp071797k (ACS abstract), http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/TemelsoHAbst.pdf (paper).

14. Robert A. Freitas Jr., Damian G. Allis, Ralph C. Merkle, “Horizontal Ge-Substituted Polymantane-Based C₂ Dimer Placement Tooltip Motifs for Diamond Mechanosynthesis,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 4(May 2007):433-442; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/DPTMotifs.pdf

13. Berhane Temelso, C. David Sherrill, Ralph C. Merkle, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “High-level Ab Initio Studies of Hydrogen Abstraction from Prototype Hydrocarbon Systems,” J. Phys. Chem. A 110(28 September 2006):11160-11173; http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jp061821e (ACS abstract), http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/TemelsoHAbst.pdf (paper).

12. Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Economic Impact of the Personal Nanofactory,” Nanotechnology Perceptions: A Review of Ultraprecision Engineering and Nanotechnology 2(May 2006):111-126; http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/NoninflationaryPN.pdf

11. Jingping Peng, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, James R. Von Ehr, John N. Randall, George D. Skidmore, “Theoretical Analysis of Diamond Mechanosynthesis. Part III. Positional C₂ Deposition on Diamond C(110) Surface using Si/Ge/Sn-based Dimer Placement Tools,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 3(February 2006):28-41; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/JCTNPengFeb06.pdf

10. Chris Phoenix, Tihamer Toth-Fejel, “Large-Product General-Purpose Design and Manufacturing Using Nanoscale Modules,” NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, CP-04-01, Phase I: Advanced Aeronautical/Space Concept Studies, 2 May 2005; http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/1030Phoenix.pdf

9. Robert A. Freitas Jr., “A Simple Tool for Positional Diamond Mechanosynthesis, and its Method of Manufacture,” U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/543,802, filed 11 February 2004; U.S. Patent Pending, 11 February 2005; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/DMSToolbuildProvPat.htm

8. Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Pathway to Diamond-Based Molecular Manufacturing,” Invited Lecture delivered at the First Symposium on Molecular Machine Systems at the First Foresight Conference on Advanced Nanotechnology, 22 October 2004, Washington, DC; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/PathDiamMolMfg.htm

7. Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines, Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, 2004; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/KSRM.htm

6. Tihamer Toth-Fejel, “Modeling Kinematic Cellular Automata: Final Report,” NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts, Phase I: CP-02-02, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems Contract #P03-0984, 30 April 2004 (Project Technical Consultants: Robert Freitas and Matt Moses); http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/pdf/883Toth-Fejel.pdf

5. David J. Mann, Jingping Peng, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, “Theoretical analysis of diamond mechanosynthesis. Part II. C₂ mediated growth of diamond C(110) surface via Si/Ge-triadamantane dimer placement tools,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 1(March 2004):71-80; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/JCTNMannMar04.pdf

4. Jingping Peng, Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, “Theoretical analysis of diamond mechanosynthesis. Part I. Stability of C₂ mediated growth of nanocrystalline diamond C(110) surface,” J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci. 1(March 2004):62-70; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/JCTNPengMar04.pdf

3. Chris Phoenix, “Design of a Primitive Nanofactory,” J. Evol. and Technol. 13(October 2003); http://www.jetpress.org/volume13/Nanofactory.htm and http://CRNano.org/bootstrap.htm

2. Ralph C. Merkle, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Theoretical analysis of a carbon-carbon dimer placement tool for diamond mechanosynthesis,” J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 3(August 2003):319-324; http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/JNNDimerTool.pdf or http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/JNNDimerTool.pdf or http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/DimerTool.htm

1. Ralph C. Merkle, Robert A. Freitas Jr., “Theoretical analysis of a carbon-carbon dimer placement tool for diamond mechanosynthesis,” paper presented at the 10th Foresight Conference on Molecular Nanotechnology, October 2002; http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT10/Abstracts/Merkle/index.html

 

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