Nanofactory Collaboration website launched

July 26, 2006 | Source: KurzweilAI

Nanotechnologists Robert A. Freitas, Jr. and Ralph C. Merkle have launched a “Nanofactory Collaboration” website.

“This is the first and only dedicated international research effort with the explicit objective of building a working diamondoid nanofactory, by slowly and methodically working through the possible technical roadblocks one by one,” Freitas told KurzweilAI.net.

There are 23 individual research participants on the site so far. Most noteworthy: the general overview, the webpage on diamond mechanosynthesis (DMS), the new annotated bibliography on DMS, the extensive and detailed listing of the numerous technical challenges that remain to be addressed, and a current listing of the participants in the Collaboration, says Freitas.

A Nanofactory Roadmap will be added in the near future.