Eric Drexler's blog partially dug up from the Internet Archive

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A lot of the following are related to this page on this wiki: Superlubricity

• Symmetric molecular bearings can exhibit low energy barriers that are insensitive to details of the potential energy function
• Phonon drag in sleeve bearings can be orders of magnitude smaller than viscous drag in liquids
• Bearings can be stable despite attractive interactions between their surfaces

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• Sleeve bearings have been designed and modeled in atomic detail
  Links to: A Proof About Molecular Bearings by Ralph C. Merkle -- 1993
• PDB files can describe molecular structures in atomic detail
• Bearings play a crucial role in many sorts of machinery
• A shaft in a sleeve can form a rotary bearing

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• Stiffly supported sliding atoms have a smooth interaction potential
• Softly supported sliding atoms can undergo abrupt transitions in energy -- Related page: Snapback

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• Standard molecular mechanics can describe only motions that leave bonding unchanged
• Quantum chemistry can describe motions, including changes in bonding

Blog

2014

(no further later entries)

2014-08-XX:

• 08 Recovering ancient voices from clay pots
• 06 Vital national interests will change. Perceptions may not.
• 04 To War for Trade? — 3 August 1914

2014-07-XX:

• 09 Gmail interface horror
• 03 Keynote at TVC 2014
• 03 Standard Model followup

2014-06-XX:

• 11 Just in case you missed reading XKCD…

2014-05-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2014-04-XX:

• 25 Physics Quiz: Corrected Answers
• 19 Physics Quiz: Standard Model Answers
• 16 Physics Quiz: The Standard Model
• 04 The five kinds of nanotechnology
• 01 Rise of the robots (per the Economist)

2014-03-XX:

• 29 The end of the thermodynamics of computation?
• 13 Civilizational impact
• 05 Environmental Impact
• 04 Speaking in Colorado at two Curiosity Retreats

2014-02-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2014-01-XX:

• 25 Apologies for Oxford talk overflow
• 21 Talk at Oxford: “Remaking the 21st Century”

2013

2013-12-XX:

• 10 Book talk at Oxford
• 09 Radical Abundance featured in the Times Literary Supplement

2013-11-XX:

• 23 One hour question session after OSU technical talk
• 16 Pauling Memorial Lecture, Portland Oregon
• 12 Speaking in Seoul
• 11 XKCD answers the questions
• 11 It’s official: “Nano” now means materials
• 07 What Aristotle can teach us about nanotechnology
• 06 Atomic precision or atomically precise design?
• 04 Four Revolutions Compared: Agriculture, Industry, Information, and APM
• 03 Serverification of molecular engineering tools
• 01 One weird new tip for doubling page views

2013-10-XX:

• 31 Further notes on Rosetta, RosettaDesign — and Rosie
• 31 Climate reporting: Spot the difference?
• 30 Learning practical atomically precise fabrication
• 29 Guardian post #3: Big Nanotech: An unexpected future
• 18 Report on advanced nanotechnology (先进的纳米技术报告)
• 21 Big Nanotech: Building a new world with atomic precision
• 17 Blog post at the Guardian
• 15 Dutch press roundup
• 09 Nobel Prize for Computational Chemistry
• 08 London & Istanbul followup

2013-09-XX:

• 29 London & Istanbul
• 05 Talks and interviews in Amsterdam and Groningen

2013-08-XX:

• 30 Transforming the Material Basis of Civilization (TEDx talk, take #2)
• 22 Software, trust, and proof
• 18 Amory Lovins on Radical Abundance
• 13 A critic of the Hyperloop speaks in a vacuum
• 05 APM in the Obayashi Quarterly

2013-07-XX:

• 22 Podcast interview with “Surprisingly Free”
• 13 My TEDx video now online
• 11 Robin replies
• 05 Robin Hanson critiques Radical Abundance
• 04 Doug Engelbart

2013-06-XX:

• 17 TEDx talk in Lisbon, week in Portugal
• 11 Writeup on APM now cross-posted at Nanowerk
• 06 Must-read papers for anyone who practices, manages, or thinks about systems engineering
• 03 Baku blogging

2013-05-XX:

• 24 A new introduction: “APM in brief” (and its physical principles)
• 22 Radical Abundance earns a star from Kirkus Reviews
• 21 Upcoming talk and book signing in London
• 21 Mining the seabed for resources that won’t be scarce
• 17 Review of Radical Abundance: “Books in Brief” in Nature
• 16 Guest Post: Drexler at Town Hall in Seattle
• 15 Albany interview
• 03 My US speaking & event schedule My US speaking & event schedule

2013-04-XX:

• 30 Radical Abundance is now available
• 21 Rio+20, sustainable development goals, and APM

2013-03-XX:

• 15 Speaking at a London Nanotechnology Event: “How can we capture the possibilities but avoid the pitfalls of nanotechnology?”
• 13 Interview for CSPAN’S Book TV
• 10 Daniel Kahneman makes us smarter (again)
• 05 An Advance in Structural DNA Nanotechnology

2013-02-XX:

• 26 Forbes interview up
• 13 Missing pieces: The lost history of how nanotechnology took hold in the world

2013-01-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2012

2011-12-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2011-11-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2011-10-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2011-09-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

[2011-08-XX:]

• 14 Standard deviations in climate change

2011-07-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2011-06-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2011-05-XX:

• 30 Nanotechnology at Lloyd’s of London
• 23 Beilstein Symposium 2012: Molecular Engineering and Control

2011-04-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2011-03-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2011-02-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2011-01-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2011

2011-12-XX:

• 26 Darwin portraits on sale, ₤10 — exactly
• 23 Video of my talk at the Moscow Polytechnical Museum
• 21 Moscow Report (II): Russians embrace a radical vision of nanotechnology
• 07 Video of my Oxford nanotechnology lecture

2011-11-XX:

• 25 A rich visual display of quantitative money information
• 07 Peptoid technology for molecular nanosystems — My review is now online

2011-10-XX:

• 26 A Busy Day in Moscow
• 22 I’ve moved to Oxford

2011-09-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2011-08-XX:

• 03 Quiz Question: What is wrong with this model of computation?

2011-07-XX:

• 21 My next book: Radical Abundance, 2013
• 18 Looking toward 2050 with Royal Dutch Shell

2011-06-XX:

• (no entries in this month)

2011-05-XX:

• 27 An advance in atomically precise building-block assembly
• 10 Science and engineering at NIH
• 06 Nanosystems for India
• 03 Polyoxometalate papers

2011-03-XX:

• 26 Crystallizing molecular assemblies that don’t exist
• 24 The Quantum Information Science and Technology Roadmap (for example…)
• 12 I blame a deep flaw in current software technology

2011-03-XX:

• 27 Fukushima — best video, possible recriticallity (*?)
• 24 Fukushima — where are the Parrots?
• 22 Across the blood-brain barrier with exosomes
• 11 Tsunami disasters and the cost of making things

2011-02-XX:

• 24 3D atomic imaging of nanoparticles — a new technique
• 16 Atomic Layer Deposition for Atomically-Precise Crystal Fabrication (2)
• 03 Semi-synthetic implants of semi-tissue

2011-01-XX:

• 20 Good and popular

2010

2010-12-XX:

• 08 Nano drug carrier (!!!)
• 08 Why We Get Fat

2010-11-XX:

• 30 A meta-meta-analysis from the CDC
• 25 New project launched: Atomic Scale and Single Molecule Logic Gate Technologies
• 16 Molecular machine animations in the New York Times
• 08 meets General Relativity
• 03 For the next Nobel Prize in Medicine, I nominate…

2010-10-XX:

• 29 Why “Science Policy” is a mistake from the start
• 24 Nanomedicine by nanoparticle: Toward killing cancer, tweaking cell function, and inserting Boolean logic
• 21 As the word turns…
• 17 Electron cryomicroscopy reaches landmark molecular resolution
• 05 The 2010 Nobel Prize for Graphene Nanotechnology
• 05 Evolutionary refinement of engineered molecules

2010-09-XX:

• 29 Stronger than carbon nanotubes: Polyynes and the prospects for carbyne
• 26 Antioxidants block cell repair — New information and what it may mean
• 24 Out of the memory-hole: A historian speaks out on nanotechnology
• 18 Trehalose vs. trehalase
• 15 Trehalose, autophagy, and brain repair: Sweet
• 13 Boron is the new carbon…
• 12 Forcible, reversible mechanochemistry
• 10 Chemists deserve more credit (2): The 150^th anniversary of the first international science conference
• 05 came first, the Nano or the NNI?
• 02 Metacognition, then and now (a crisp example)
• 02 High-school civics and minds, 1890 and now

2010-08-XX:

• 28 The best introduction to DNA nanotechnology
• 27 The problem: a metacognition deficit
• 25 How to Learn about Everything in Belorussian
• 23 Updated post on high-throughput atomically precise manufacturing
• 19 About releasing building blocks…
• 17 Factory in a box
• 13 The 7^th Peptoid Summit: Progress in peptoid toolkit development
• 05 Between conferences

2010-07-XX:

• 24 Autophagy: Why you should eat yourself
• 14 Super Battery!!!
• 11 “The China Study” Considered Harmful
• 04 Next up: Asteroids
• 03 Arctic sea ice yesterday

2010-06-XX:

• 28 Mission of Gravity, Part 3: GOCE updates the shape of the Earth
• 24 Data-mining the bioscience literature
• 21 Molecular Mechano-Electronics
• 16 Needless Megadeaths: A Suggestion for Science in the Public Interest
• 07 Inquiry in Engineering, Design in Science: Completing the Matrix
• 03 Knowledge and causality in inquiry and design
• 01 Foldamers: Accomplishments and Goals

2010-05-XX:

• 29 Nano promise to be fulfilled?
• 27 When a bureaucrat is a physicist…
• 24 Irrational drug design, malaria, and Alzheimer’s disease
• 20 A programmable nanoscale assembly line
• 19 Flattening the Matterhorn
• 19 Causal sets as discrete models of spacetime
• 17 Reshaping airframes & expectations
• 16 A brief post about brief posts
• 04 Globe Forum afterword & environmental posts

2010-04-XX:

• 29 Liveblogging Globe Forum 2010, Stockholm
• 22 Peptoid nanosheets: A platform for new nanotechnologies
• 16 Zinc fingers for gripping DNA
• 07 Incentive engineering v. Econ 101 (creativity, criminality, etc.)

2010-03-XX:

• 26 Space data lost to whale-oil shortage
• 18 Is 华大基因 doing science? (aka BGI)
• 12 Learning Bioinformatics
• 12 The molecular approach to atomically precise fabrication
• 01 Ribo-Q1: Genetic manufacturing expanded

2010-02-XX:

• 24 How to study for a career in nanotechnology
• 17 Chemists deserve more credit: Atoms, Einstein, and the Matthew Effect
• 12 Cell-free synthetic biology
• 06 Exploiting strong, covalent bonds for self assembly of robust nanosystems

2010-01-XX:

• 29 Self assembly and nanomachines: Complexity, motion, and computational control
• 25 Self-assembling nanostructures: Building the building blocks
• 24 Boronate esters, Suzuki coupling, self-assembly, design software, etc.
• 17 The importance of seeing what isn’t there
• 13 Templates for atomically precise metal-oxide nanostructures
• 09 The Wall Street Journal on Feynman, Drexler, History, and the Future
• 07 Molecular Manufacturing: The NRC study and its recommendations
• 07 Open comment thread for “Molecular Manufacturing: The NRC study and its recommendations”
• 03 Evolution: The concept and how we talk about it

2009

2009-12-XX:

• 31 For Darwin’s sake, reject “Darwin-ism” (and other pernicious terms)
• 29 (5/5) “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom” (Richard Feynman, Pasadena, 29 December 1959)
• 28 Khan Academy: On a mission to educate the world (for free)
• 27 (4/5) The Molecular Machine Path to Molecular Manufacturing (2): Exploiting Improved Methods and Building Blocks
• 27 (1/5 b) Update to “The promise that launched the field of nanotechnology”
• 25 (3/5) The Molecular Machine Path to Molecular Manufacturing (1): Foldamers and Brownian Assembly
• 22 More about less opportunity for young scientists
• 20 Basement development? Big leaps?
• 19 (2/5) Molecular Manufacturing: Where’s the progress?
• 15 (1/5 a) The promise that launched the field of nanotechnology
• 11 How many minds produce knowledge
• 04 Quantum-coupled single-electron thermal to electric conversion

2009-11-XX:

• 27 Great Science, Great Scientists, and Icons
• 25 Cybersecurity: Let’s try something that can work
• 23 Flat graphene is stable, even in theory
• 18 Most popular posts, continued…
• 17 Followup discussion of quantum information and science hype
• 15 How to make carbon nanotubes at room temperature
• 15 A Unique Health Care System
• 12 Carbon Nanotube Transistors through DNA Origami
• 10 Quantum Computing: Sorry, no speedup in solving linear systems
• 07 Asian Universities are Lagging (according to lagging indicators)
• 05 Indian education, top to bottom
• 02 E-Drexler in India — where do all the visitors come from?

2009-10-XX:

• 30 Nanotechnology research papers: The world’s most prolific authors
• 29 Knowledge about Knowledge: The most popular posts in the first year
• 25 First Anniversary (and the scientific method revisited)
• 24 An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
• 23 Reflections on nanotechnology (in a curved mirror)
• 20 Molecular Electron Holography: Progress toward atomic-resolution imaging?
• 14 What can scaling laws tell us about nanomachines?
• 07 Nobel Prize for Productive Nanosystem Research
• 01 Molecular Nanomachines: Physical Principles and Implementation Strategies

2009-09-XX:

• 26 My MIT dissertation — a draft of Nanosystems — is now online
• 20 Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything
• 11 News, nucleic acid edition

2009-08-XX:

• 27 Agile robots, dexterous robots (with videos)
• 20 Comments on Science, Engineering, and Innovation for The Drucker Institute
• 13 “Nanotechnologies in Russia” interview now available
• 06 Asia and the elements of innovation
• 02 Evolutionary Capacity: Why organisms cannot be like machines

2009-07-XX:

• 28 Slides for Talk on Nanotechnology and Computational Challenges
• 20 Apollo+40
• 16 Productive Nanosystems: The Ribosome Videos
• 12 Carbon Nanotubes in Ordered DNA Wrappers
• 08 What is simple? Polyethylene, molecular modeling, and molecular machines
• 01 A Renaissance Weekend

2009-06-XX:

• 26 Exploratory Engineering: Applying the predictive power of science to future technologies
• 22 The Antiparallel Structures of Science and Engineering
• 18 Myths through mythquotation
• 16 Science and Engineering: A Layer-Cake of Inquiry and Design
• 12 The Physical Basis of High-Throughput Atomically Precise Manufacturing
• 09 A Telescope Aimed at the Future
• 05 Talk at 09 ISMICS
• 03 The Paradox of Choice
• 02 A Welcome to New Readers

2009-05-XX:

• 30 Homo floresiensis, Crows, and the Baldwin Effect
• 27 How to Learn About Everything
• 22 A Third Revolution in DNA Nanotechnology
• 20 A Map of Science
• 17 How to Understand Everything (and why)
• 13 The Technology Roadmap Translated: Russian
• 10 A DNA Origami Box
• 06 Slides for Berkeley Talk on Molecular Nanosystems
• 04 Nanotechnology and Nuclear Reactions

2009-04-XX:

• 30 Machines Evolving to the Brink of Failure
• 26 Top Posts
• 23 Earth Day 1970, and a high road down to molecules
• 20 The Casimir Effect and Nanomachines
• 16 Macromolecular Modeling for Molecular Systems Engineering
• 14 Mechanochemistry, Mechanosynthesis, and Molecular Machinery
• 11 Motors, Brownian Motors, and Brownian Mechanosynthesis -- Related page on this wiki: mechanosynthesis
• 09 Nanotechnology in Science Fiction (and vice versa)
• 06 Upcoming Talk at the Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum
• 04 Nanosystems for Molecular Manufacturing
• 02 Graphene Nanotechnology (and TEAM Microscopes)

2009-03-XX:

• 30 A Revolution in de novo Protein Engineering Methodology
• 29 Polyoxometalate Nanostructures
• 27 Effective Concentration in Self Assembly, Catalysis, and Mechanosynthesis (2)
• 23 Atomic Layer Deposition for Atomically Precise Fabrication (1)
• 22 Effective Concentration in Self Assembly, Catalysis, and Mechanosynthesis (1)
• 19 A High-Performance Polymer for Nanosystems Engineering
• 18 Mission of Gravity, Part 2
• 14 AFM Atom Manipulation: A surprising technique
• 13 Pyrite Nanomaterials for Solar Photovoltaics
• 11 CAD for Nanoengineering: DNA, proteins, and search-intensive design
• 09 for Nanoengineering: Atoms, materials, and nanostructures
• 08 One Watt, One year, One dollar (pass it on)

2009-02-XX:

• 27 High-Throughput Nanomanufacturing: Small Parts (with videos)
• 26 Back to the New Future of Space
• 25 Making vs. Modeling: A paradox of progress in nanotechnology
• 24 How Nanotubes Grow: A theory that has nothing to do with reality
• 23 Design Software for Atomically Precise Nanotechnologies
• 22 What’s in the Vault?
• 20 Nanomachines, Nanomaterials, and K_lm
• 18 Studying Nanotechnology: A Preface
• 17 Advanced Nanotechnology Keynote for WORLDCOMP’09
• 15 Nanostructures, Nanomaterials, and Lattice-Scaled Stiffness
• 12 For Darwin Day: On the Origin of Genetic Information
• 10 Nanomachines: How the Videos Lie to Scientists -- Related page on this wiki: "Friction in gem-gum technology"

2009-01-XX:

• 30 Productive Nanosystems: The Movies
• 26 Self-Assembly for Nanotechnology
• 23 Eric and Rosa’s 2008 in Summary
• 20 GOCE on a Mission of Gravity
• 20 E-drexler.com upgraded
• 16 Toward Advanced Nanotechnology: Nanomaterials (2)
• 12 Molecular Machine Assembly: The Movie
• 09 Nudging Toward a Better Future
• 08 The Nobel Prize for Technology
• 05 Molecular Assembly Lines
• 01 Greenhouse Gases and Advanced Nanotechnology

2008

2008-12-XX:

• 29 Nanomedicine, Nanomaterials, and the NIH
• 27 Toward Advanced Nanotechnology: Nanomaterials (1) -- Related page on this wiki: Pathway controversy
• 23 Mysterious Google Rankings
• 21 Low-Cost DNA Production Roadmap
• 19 3D Imaging & Research Opportunity (updated)
• 19 A Brain Drain to Nowhere
• 18 The Technology Tree
• 18 A Random Number and Neuroscience
• 15 Comments on Comments
• 15 3D imaging of biological nanostructures
• 12 Your comments, please (and a giveaway)
• 11 Arthur Kantrowitz

2008-11-XX:

• 22 Nanoplasmonics
• 21 Reflections on Popper on World Philosophy Day Reflections on Popper on World Philosophy Day
• 21 Early 21^st Century Medicine (formatting lost)
• 15 Ecuadorian Conference Talk (formatting lost)
• 14 Molecular Foundry Seminar
• 10 Computation and Mathematical Proof
• 10 Modular Molecular Composite Nanosystems

2008-10-XX:

• 27 Combining Molecular Signals
• 25 The Data Explosion and the Scientific Method