Potential early crystolecular mechanisms

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Crystolecule tool-holster system

primitive tool holster crystolecule concept

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System component parts:
– Sample surface mounted holster parts (possibly as one magazine) and
– Single on SPM tip mounted tool-holder part
– tool carrying crystolecules to be transferred

Constraints:
All parts shaped such shaped such that via the choice of path
the transfer direction (sample to tip or vice-versa) can be specified.
Load under suage preferabyl under form closure constraints rather than ripping or even weaker slipping vdW restoring forces.

Manufacturing:
– designs with no/limited overhangs possible
– mounting options (press sharp baae into soft metal? cemical surface bonding? …)

Crystolecular discrete angle crystolecule flipper

crystolecule flipper concept

Flipping discrete angles.
Possibly usage of "van der Waals contact bearings".

System component parts:
– flipper base mounted onto sample surface
– flipper crate mounted into flipper base
– SPM needle tip mounted pusher probe (see: "crystolecule tool-holster system" above)
– the crystolecules to be orientation flipped

Crystolecular seesaw mechanosynthesis tool flipper

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A bistabe flipping mechanism to switch between two different mechanosynthetic tools (early on tool molecules).

Soemwhat similar to the above
"crystolecular discrete angle crystolecule flipper".

van der Waals manipulator

See page: Assembly from atomically precise nanoscale and microscale parts & Crystolecule assembly robotics

Nanoscale specialized end-effector exploiting nanoscale physics (van der Waals sticking force) for not needing to resort to complex gripper mechnanisms. (CLICK IMAGE TO SEE ANIMATION)

Like in the case of the "crystolecule tool-holster system"
but there is one single actively actuated degree of freedom to actively push off
the crystolecule

Simple crystolecular flexure devices

See main page: Simple crystolecular flexure devices

These need to be larger monolithic structures.
Replacing the challenge of post assembly with
the challenge of making notably larger crystolecules.

Also bending of crystolecules generally produces significantly larger forces than restoring forces from vdW interactions. Macroscale SPM tips can easily provide these forces. It gets more challenging when eventually going to nano-to-nano-actuation which (granted) is arguably not falling under "potential early crystolecular mechanisms" but under much larger and much more advances ones (still far from gem-gum factories though.

Related

• Potential early crystolecular building blocks

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• Assembly from atomically precise nanoscale and microscale parts
• Crystolecule assembly robotics
• Examples of diamondoid molecular machine elements

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• Linear reciprocative pseudogears