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Molecular Building Blocks and Development Strategies for Molecular Nanotechnology
Overview The manufacture of molecular machines using positional assembly requires two things: positional devices to do the assembly, and parts to assemble. Molecular building blocks, made from tens to tens of thousands of atoms, provide a rich set of possibilities for parts. Preliminary investigation of this vast space of possibilities suggests that building blocks that have multiple links to other building blocks -- at least three, and preferably four or more -- will make it easier to positionally assemble strong, stiff three dimensional structures. Adamantane, C10H16, is a tetrahedrally symmetric stiff hydrocarbon that provides obvious sites for either four, six or more functional groups. Over 20,000 variants of adamantane have been synthesized, providing a rich and well studied set of chemistries.
| Publisher | Zyvex | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | August 2003 | Downloads | 22 |
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