Microcomponent

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They are briefly described on the "assembly levels" page.
They have no exposed chemical radicals and should preferably use reversible locking mechanisms Their size constitutes a trade-off between re-usability and space usage efficiency. They are limited by the assembly level II building chamber sizes of the generating Nanofactory.

In the simplest case one could use a simple cube as delimiting base shape. Stacking them then forms a simple cubic microcomponent crystal. To get less anisotropic behavior of metamaterials one can make them have the shape of either of:

• truncated octahedrons (the Wigner Seitz cell of the body centered cubic system bcc)
• rhombic dodecaherdons (the Wigner Seitz cell of the face centered cubic system fcc)
• Base cells of more complicated crystal structures or even quasi-crystals will make geometric reasoning exceedingly hard and will therefore probably only be considered if needed for a good reason.