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High level physical effects that misleadingly may suggest infeasibility:
  
 
* High wear in MEMS due to "stiction"
 
* High wear in MEMS due to "stiction"
 
* Focus on the for current day directly applicable material science (alloys)
 
* Focus on the for current day directly applicable material science (alloys)
 
* Focus on the for material science interesting heavy metallic elements with intersting magnetic properties (f shells) – rare elements ...
 
* Focus on the for material science interesting heavy metallic elements with intersting magnetic properties (f shells) – rare elements ...
* Barely controllable diffusion: on surfaces, in grain boundaries, of dislocations  
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* Barely controllable diffusion: on surfaces, in grain boundaries, of dislocations <br> Partly due to a focus on metals with exotic properties (lower periodic table) as catalysts where valence electron shells are vast and surface diffusion is fast <br>(totally unphysical) visual analogy: Focus on a slippery ice rink rather than a muddy sticky gravel field.
 
* High difficulty to achieve very high levels of vacuum (UHV at best – nowhere near [[PPV]])  
 
* High difficulty to achieve very high levels of vacuum (UHV at best – nowhere near [[PPV]])  
 
* Immense difficulties with [[SPM]]: getting and keeping tips sharp reliably, limits in imageable hight steps, speed limits, ...
 
* Immense difficulties with [[SPM]]: getting and keeping tips sharp reliably, limits in imageable hight steps, speed limits, ...
 
* Difficulties in designing artificial proteins for binding (not to speak of catalysis)
 
* Difficulties in designing artificial proteins for binding (not to speak of catalysis)
 
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== Why is should be feasible despite all that ==
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'''Low level physical effects (from first principles) that prove feasibility:'''
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* [[Macroscale style machinery at the nanoscale]]
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* [[A Minimal Toolset for Positional Diamond Mechanosynthesis (paper)]]
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'''There is also high level evidence but this is weaker:'''
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* [[Experimental demonstrations of single atom manipulation]]
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* Progess in [[de-novo protein design]] and [[structural DNA nanotechnology]]
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'''Both low and high level evidence:'''
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* [[Why gemstone metamaterial technology should work in brief]]

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High level physical effects that misleadingly may suggest infeasibility:

  • High wear in MEMS due to "stiction"
  • Focus on the for current day directly applicable material science (alloys)
  • Focus on the for material science interesting heavy metallic elements with intersting magnetic properties (f shells) – rare elements ...
  • Barely controllable diffusion: on surfaces, in grain boundaries, of dislocations
    Partly due to a focus on metals with exotic properties (lower periodic table) as catalysts where valence electron shells are vast and surface diffusion is fast
    (totally unphysical) visual analogy: Focus on a slippery ice rink rather than a muddy sticky gravel field.
  • High difficulty to achieve very high levels of vacuum (UHV at best – nowhere near PPV)
  • Immense difficulties with SPM: getting and keeping tips sharp reliably, limits in imageable hight steps, speed limits, ...
  • Difficulties in designing artificial proteins for binding (not to speak of catalysis)
  • ....

Why is should be feasible despite all that

Low level physical effects (from first principles) that prove feasibility:

There is also high level evidence but this is weaker:

Both low and high level evidence: