Toward Advanced Nanotechnology

E-drexler.com focuses on the science behind productive nanosystems, a nanotechnology that will enable molecular manufacturing. It includes tutorial material, new results, annotated bibliographies, and links to external web resources. A better understanding this topic is important on many levels, ranging from setting directions for individual education and scientific research in nanotechnology through exploring options for addressing problems on the largest scales, including greenhouse gases and climate change.

The best brief, general introduction to the concept of productive nanosystems is “Revolutionizing the Future of Technology” on the EurekAlert website of the AAAS. The best brief introduction to the basic physical principles is “Productive Nanosystems: the physics of molecular fabrication” [pdf, 0.6 MB], in the Institute of Physics journal Physics Education. For a detailed technical analysis of the physical principles and potential implementations of advanced molecular manufacturing systems, see Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation.

For ongoing news, broader perspectives, and new technical concepts, see my blog, Metamodern.com.

Technology Roadmap
for Productive Nanosystems

A broad-based, multidisciplinary exploration of paths to molecular manufacturing and advanced nanotechnology-based products, the Roadmap addresses how current laboratory techniques can be extended, step by step, toward increasingly advanced products and capabilities.

The Roadmap project was led by the Battelle Memorial Institute, the manager of U.S. National Laboratories that include Pacific Northwest, Oak Ridge, and Brookhaven; these labs hosted several Roadmap workshops and provided many of the participating scientists and engineers.

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