Transitionary materials
From apm
All materials in the "ladder" of technology levels
that lie above nature/bioderived foldamers like:
and below gemstones materials that can only be
piezomechanosynthesized in PPV like diamondoid crystolecules.
Examples
Organics beyond foldamers:
Metalorganics:
Minearals that like to behave like atomically precise molecules. Kinda like natural crystolecules:
In water (abiotic) mechanosynthesizable gemstones including biominerals and other minerals:
- ceria – as it has good lattice scaled stiffness
- Sulfides and oxides: pyrite, periclase
- Iron oxides: magnetite, magnesite
- Oxoacid salts of calcium: apatite (phosphate), calcite & aragonite (carbonates), gypsum (soft sulfate),
- Some Mohs scale defining aluminosilicate oxidic minerals: 6 orthoclase, 7 quartz, 8 topaz, 9 sapphire
- More complex minerals with nice cubic structure: spinels, garnets, perovskites, ...
In non-aquaeous solution mechanosynthesizable gemstones:
- ... ???