Energy recuperation

Energy recuperation on the single bond level

• energy recuperation in piezochemical mechanosynthesis
• energy recuperation in the drive subsystem of a gem-gum factory – e.g. in chemomechanical conversion

See: Dissipation sharing – (Related: Exothermy offloading)

Potential waste heat increasing factors:

• Higher energy turnover due to more surface area broken open and reformed again
• Higher energy turnover due to covalent bonds being significantly stronger than Van der Waals bonds
• Possibly less highly optimizable for efficiency due to localized high strains being unavoidable – (related: back driving a gear-train)

Energy recuperation on small scales

• energy recuperation from Van der Waals bonds
• energy recuperation from superelastic clips, avoiding larger scale snapback

Related

• Reversible actuation – Reversible computation (Rod logic)
• Dissipation sharing – (Related: Exothermy offloading)