A Minimal Toolset for Positional Diamond Mechanosynthesis (paper)

The aim was to design a complete tooltip cycle and thereby proof
that there are no fundamental roadblocks for diamondoid mechanosynthesis.
The results where favorable.

Related

• List of proposed tooltips for diamond mechanosynthesis
• Tooltip chemistry – Tooltip cycle – Pierochemical mechanosynthesis
• Resource molecules
• Why gemstone metamaterial technology should work in brief

Regarding experimental work mechanosynthesis has been crudely demonstrated on silicon (state 2021).
This is all very far from an experimentally demonstrated tooltip cycle yet though.
(Note: throughput rate and fundamental mechanosynthetic capability can probably be developed separately and orthogonally from each other for the most part)

External references

• A Minimal Toolset for Positional Diamond Mechanosynthesis (2008) from Robert A. Freitas Jr. and Ralph C. Merkle - Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA
• A flow-chart extracted out of the minimal toolset paper.

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• Wikipedia: Hydrogen atom abstraction