Molecular Electronic Devices And Drexler’s Nanomachines: Engineered Molecules To Understand Chemical Evolution?
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S. Santoli. (1990), JBIS, 43, pp.11-17
Refcode: 1990.43.11
Abstract:
At the Christmas, 1959, meeting of the American Physical Society at Caltech, the future Nobel Laureate Richard P. Feynman gave a talk [I] in which be speculated on the possibility of building small machines to be employed to build even smaller machines. Also in the form of master-slave bands capable or being manipulated to build even smaller master-slave bands, and so on. Such successive steps would yield the possibility of working close to the molecular level in a way similar to macroscopic mechanical operations such as machining, drilling and assembling. Feynman also asserted that this was not contrary to known physical principles so that there was “plenty of room at the bottom” and though little had been done, an enormous amount was possible in principle. As regards chemical syntheses, these could be performed by placing individual atoms exactly where they would yield the desired products.
