Productive Nanosystems From molecules to superproducts
This page is about the the conceptual animation video "Productive nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts".
Watch it here: Productive nanosystems: From molecules to superproducts (InternetArchive link)
To address the common immediate concerns see: Macroscale style machinery at the nanoscale
Contents
Goals
Goals of the concept video
The goals of this animation presumably where a balance of:
- accurate depiction of concepts outlined in the book Nanosystems
- comprehensible depiction of concepts (not over designed over complicated – just giving a hint that there are plenty ways to do it)
- manageable design effort
Goals of this discussion page
This page is about a brief listing of the sequence of things shown in the video illustrated with screen captures.
Detailed discussions of the stations will be given on dedicated sub-pages.
Up: Discussion of proposed nanofactory designs
Shown wile zooming in continuously:
- Macroscale resource cartridges
- Cooling channels
- Assembly layers
Shown while zooming out is a list of processing stations.
List of shown stations (as brief listing)
Stations dealing with molecules and molecule fragments:
- Sorting rotors – specifically here: Acetylene sorting pump – Nanosystems pages 374, 378, 379
- Final transfer into machine phase – this may split up into sub processes – Related:Machine phase
- Tooltip loading
- Tooltip preparation
- Carbon deposition – specifically here: di-carbon deposition – Tooltip unloading
Stations dealing with crystolecules and bigger structures:
- Assembly line positioning stage – pallets (adapter pallets)
- NOT SHOWN IN PUBLISHED VERSION – attachment chains for the tool-tips and back-pressure rails
- NOT SHOWN – tooltip positioning stage
- NOT SHOWN – switch of belt type and speed transition
- NOT SHOWN – early stage vacuum lockout
- Routing station (Distribution junction and merging junction)
- Mixed part type stream transport to the next assembly level (here next assembly layer)
- Stream pickup mechanism
- First programmable assembly robot – details largely omitted
- Part streaming assembly – this splits up into three sub processes – gantry robotics involved
- Final lockout at the macroscale
List of shown stations (discussed in more detail)
(wiki-TODO: add discussions of stations and associated screencaps)
Sorting rotors
Notes
The page on this wiki that is associated is: Gemstone metamaterial on chip factories
The page "Advanced productive nanosystems" is more generally about all kinds of proposed advanced manufacturing systems (more and less feasible) that go into the direction of gem-gum technology.
Related
- Discussion of other proposed nanofactory designs
- Gemstone metamaterial on chip factories
- Design of gem-gum on-chip factories
- Advanced productive nanosystems – Disambiguation page
- More generally: Advanced productive nanosystems