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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>DSDM Table of Contents Page</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body>   <table width="100%">  <tr> <td width="25%"><img src="Graphics/DSDMThumb.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="258" border="1"></td> <td width="3%">  </td> <td width="72%"><div align="justify"> Diamond Surfaces and Diamond Mechanosynthesis </div> © 2006-08 <a href="http://www.rfreitas.com">Robert A. Freitas Jr.</a> and <a href="http://www.merkle.com">Ralph C. Merkle</a>. All Rights Reserved.</td> </tr> </table>     <a name="Citation" id="Citation"></a>Preferred Literature Citation for Diamond Surfaces and Diamond Mechanosynthesis: Robert A. Freitas Jr., Ralph C. Merkle, Diamond Surfaces and Diamond Mechanosynthesis, Landes Bioscience, Georgetown, TX, 2009-10; <a href="http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/DSDM.htm">http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/DSDM.htm</a>. In preparation.     <a name="Summary"></a>Capsule Summary of Diamond Surfaces and Diamond Mechanosynthesis: Diamond Surfaces and Diamond Mechanosynthesis (<a href="http://www.landesbioscience.com">Landes Bioscience</a>, 2006, in preparation). A full analysis of how to use programmable positional assembly to synthesize most arrangements of atoms permitted by physical law would be, at present, prohibitively complex. A more manageable project is to analyze a significant class of stiff hydrocarbons – in particular, diamond – that could potentially be synthesized by the use of a small set of positionally controlled mechanosynthetic tool tips. There is already widespread interest in the exceptional properties of diamond such as extreme hardness, high strength and stiffness, high thermal conductivity, low frictional coefficient, chemical inertness, and a wide bandgap. The molecular surface characteristics of diamond were extensively investigated both theoretically and experimentally in the 1990s, and many practical questions about the molecular structure of diamond surfaces have now been resolved. The fields of diamond CVD and adamantane chemistry provide additional understanding, both experimental and theoretical, of the myriad reaction mechanisms which can contribute to the growth of diamond. A technical bibliography for research on positional mechanosynthesis is available <a href="http://foresight.org/stage2/mechsynthbib.html">here</a>. The first patent ever filed on positional diamond mechanosynthesis is available <a href="http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/Papers/DMSToolbuildProvPat.htm">here</a>.     <a name="Purchase"></a>Purchase a Printed Copy of Diamond Surfaces and Diamond Mechanosynthesis: Landes Bioscience (not yet available)     <a name="Reviews"></a>Reviews of Diamond Surfaces and Diamond Mechanosynthesis: <ol> <li></li> </ol> <hr> <a href="index.htm">Return to Molecular Assembler website</a> <hr>       <a name="TOC"></a>Diamond Surfaces and Diamond Mechanosynthesis © 2008-09 Robert A. Freitas Jr. and <a href="http://www.merkle.com">Ralph C. Merkle</a>. All Rights Reserved.     TABLE OF CONTENTS   <div class=Section1>         </div> <form action=http://www.google.com/search> <input type=text name=as_q> <input type=hidden name=as_sitesearch value=molecularassembler.com> <input type=submit value="Search Molecular Assembler website"> </form>     <a href="index.htm">Return to Molecular Assembler website</a>     <hr> Diamond Surfaces and Diamond Mechanosynthesis last updated on 10 May 2008 <IMG SRC="/cgi-sys/Count.cgi?df=DSDM_count|dd=B|ft=0" align=absmiddle> since 29 June 2004   </body> </html>

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