Microcomponent

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Microcomponents are briefly described on the "assembly levels" page.
They have no exposed chemical radicals and should preferably use reversible locking mechanisms such that they can be reused. 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.