Where to start targeted development
This might be one of the most important pages of the whole wiki.
Kinda like a getting started page.
Here you go. Drill down with "laser focus" if you are that type of person.
"Laser focus" – The un-word of 2021. This wiki would never have been written if the author had a "laser focus".
Contents
Top level overview pages
- Bridging the gaps
- Pathways to advanced APM systems
- Bootstrapping methods for productive nanosystems
- Exploratory engineering – is far from done yet – with Nanosystem there is still just one single book on the topic (2021 ...)
Some semi-random specific areas
Part of the incremental path:
Related to the direct path:
- Experimental demonstrations of covalent tooltip chemistry beyond the quite limited very basic things already shown.
- Theoretical expansion tooltip chemistry beyond a focus on carbon (e.g. silicon)
- Improvements on scanning probe microscopy – in particular miniaturization while keeping resolution ...
Interestingly nanoscale analytics (checking out made stuff)
seems to be a bigger challenge than nanoscale synthesis (making stuff).
Avert the direct path taken literally (?)
Attempting to actually follow the direct path as proposed
(See: Molecular assembler; and "Primitive Nanofactory Design by Chris Phoenix - October 2003" – Discussion of proposed nanofactory designs),
instead of cherry picking sub-problems that can later be used in the incremental path,
seems way too difficult. A least it looks this ways at the moment (2021).
So the author would currently rather advise against it.
Related
- Shoestring budget? See: Citizen science
