Positional Diamondoid Mechanosynthesis

An apparatus for performing mechanosynthesis, comprising:

• a. a mechanosynthetically active tooltip, comprising one or more atoms, that is under continuous positional control;
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• b. a workpiece, comprising one or more atoms, that is under continuous positional control, wherein such mechanosynthetically active tooltip and such workpiece are in an inert environment, such that when the mechanosynthetically active tooltip is guided into contact with such workpiece, a mechanosynthetic chemical reaction occurs between the mechanosynthetically active tooltip and the workpiece.

An apparatus for performing mechanosynthesis, the apparatus comprising:

• a. a mechanosynthetically active tooltip, comprising one or more atoms, that is under positional control;
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• b. a workpiece, comprising one or more atoms, that is under positional control in an inert environment, such that after a mechanosynthetically active tooltip has been bonded to such workpiece, the further positionally controlled movement of the bonded tooltip causes a change in the molecular geometry or the electronic state of one or more atoms comprising the workpiece.

An apparatus for performing mechanosynthesis comprising

• a. a mechanosynthetically active tooltip or a mechanosynthetically active tool;
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• b. a positional device attached to such mechanosynthetically active tooltip or mechanosynthetically active tool in an inert environment such that the positional device manipulates the mechanosynthetically active tooltip or mechanosynthetically active tool.

A method for performing one or a plurality of site-specific mechanosynthetic chemical reactions in an inert environment by the application of mechanical force, comprising:

• a. guiding a mechanosynthetically active tooltip that is under continuous positional control with respect to a workpiece that comprises a plurality of atoms and is under continuous positional control in an inert environment;
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• b. applying mechanical force to such workpiece to effect a mechanosynthetic chemical reaction.

A method for performing mechanosynthesis in which a positionally controlled mechanosynthetic tool is bonded to a workpiece, whereupon the further positionally controlled movement of the bonded tooltip causes a change in the molecular geometry or the electronic state of one or more atoms comprising the workpiece.

A method in which a discharged dicarbon bridge (DCB) or monocarbon bridge (MCB) mechanosynthetic dimer placement tooltip is recharged by

• a. exposing the discharged dicarbon bridge (DCB) or monocarbon bridge (MCB) mechanosynthetic dimer placement tooltip to C2H2 gas at a temperature greater than 400K;
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• b. applying mechanical force in an inert environment to effect two successive hydrogen abstraction reactions utilizing one or more site-specific positionally-controlled mechanosynthetically active tooltips.

A method of providing feedstock molecules for mechanosynthetic chemical reactions comprising:

• a. chemically bonding feedstock molecules to a flat presentation surface via bulk processes;
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• b. locating and mechanosynthetically bonding such feedstock molecules as material inputs to a site-specific positionally-controlled mechanosynthetic processing system.

A material produced by the application of a single or plurality of mechanosynthetically active tooltips or mechanosynthetically active tools to a workpiece in a series of one or more reaction steps or reaction sequences, under continuous positional control in such a manner as to compel a single or plurality of atoms to be transferred between the workpiece and the single or plurality of applied mechanosynthetically active tooltips or mechanosynthetically active tools, in a single or plurality of chemical reactions or reaction sequences driven by the application of mechanical force in an inert environment.

A system comprising a toolset of mechanosynthetically active tooltips and mechanosynthetically active tool and a method set of mechanosynthetic reactions and reaction sequences that can make all of the tools in the toolset and can perform all of the methods in the method set, using mechanosynthetic chemical reactions or reaction sequences driven by the application of mechanical force in an inert environment.

A system comprising a plurality of mechanosynthetically active tools that can make multi-atom three dimensional structures using mechanosynthetic chemical reactions or reaction sequences driven by the application of mechanical force in an inert environment.