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Will NIST's Proto-Prototype Nano Assembler Lead to Prototypical Mechanosynthesis?
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Recent research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) using MEMS devices to move atoms instead of employing atomic force microscopes (AFMs) as mentioned in the article has opened up the possibility for a new tool in nanomanipulation. Radical nanotechnology proponents are heralding it as an enabling technology for molecular manufacturing. One of the knocks on STM and AFM nanomanipulation, at least in terms of it being “protypical mechanosynthesis”, is that the manipulation does not involve “reactive (and re-chargeable) molecular tools”.
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