Why will the bond between the assembler and the product (or product part) be weakened, rather than one of the other bonds(say on the nanoassembler, or within the product) when strain is imposed?
The point I want to make is, once we have the science/tech. to control these things at the molecular level, there will much better uses for the advances than making small machines, we could make antibodies for any virus, kill any bacteria, make catalysts with low energy pathways to break water into pure hydrogen for fuel cells, and we will be limited by only our imaginations. Whose to say that these nanofactories would be the most efficent methods of making the materials that we need.
The advances in chemistry alone needed to design bonds strong enough to hold parts yet still be weaker than the parts own internal bonds would make nanomachines nothing but simple toys.
Instead of nanomachines we could just make a new liquid made of 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen with bonds designed with just the right energy to be able to burn in a car engine, and then leave just N2 and O2 in the exhust.
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Why will the bond between the assembler and the product (or product part) be weakened, rather than one of the other bonds(say on the nanoassembler, or within the product) when strain is imposed? The point I want to make is, once we have the science/tech. to control these things at the molecular level, there will much better uses for the advances than making small machines, we could make antibodies for any virus, kill any bacteria, make catalysts with low energy pathways to break water into pure hydrogen for fuel cells, and we will be limited by only our imaginations. Whose to say that these nanofactories would be the most efficent methods of making the materials that we need.
The advances in chemistry alone needed to design bonds strong enough to hold parts yet still be weaker than the parts own internal bonds would make nanomachines nothing but simple toys. Instead of nanomachines we could just make a new liquid made of 80% nitrogen and 20% oxygen with bonds designed with just the right energy to be able to burn in a car engine, and then leave just N2 and O2 in the exhust.