Reviewing the roadmap and alternatives to breakthrough molecular nanotechnology. What has to be done and how long will it take? I make the case the critical factor is creating a revenue producing flywheel as soon as possible. Creating near-term revenue-generating applications of molecular precision is one of the most effective ways to build a self-sustaining …
A new paper provides clear, reproducible proof-of-concept for subtractive mechanosynthesis on silicon. It is not yet a complete minimal toolset”demonstration on diamond surfaces, but it validates the core principles of selective, mechanically driven atom abstraction and shows how molecular tool design can control reaction outcome. Together with the additive C₂ donation results, it represents the …
CBN Nano has built and operated some level of a working prototype system for mechanically controlled mechanosynthesis, even if not every single element of the full envisioned toolset is present in one published figure set. They have done and documented hundreds of carbon dimer pick and place actions. ~60–70% of the early molecular manipuulation tool-system …
There is almost 1000 pages on the papers describing the work and plan for creating molecular manufacturing workstations. This work (primarily the 2026 CBN Nano paper and the closely related inverted-mode STM paper arXiv:2512.24431) demonstrates a substantial, practical portion of the early tool system needed for a Molecular Workstation as outlined in rep059.pdf (Molecular Workstation …
Molecular Nanotechnology has worked for over a decade. I, Brian Wang, invested in the startup that has been moving and placing molecules using tooltips for over a decade. Over 180 successful atomically precise movements of carbon dimers are described in a paper. When some of the debates about the feasibility of molecular nanotechnology were ongoing, …
Jeremy Barton is creating an institute to create basic molecular machines. A primary focus is to create basic motors. We need design tools, motors and more. He previously created an group that combined chemistry, physics, surface science to work on positional chemistry. $150 million was not enough. Here are patents related to mechanosynthesis and direct …
There is progress to precisely placing silicon atoms to create qubits for quantum computers. The Kane quantum computer is a proposal for a scalable quantum computer proposed by Bruce Kane in 1998 who was then at the University of New South Wales. Often thought of as a hybrid between quantum dot and nuclear magnetic resonance …
In January, 2022, – The first molecular electronics chip was developed. This achieved a 50-year-old goal of integrating single molecules into circuits to achieve the ultimate scaling limits of Moore’s Law. Developed by Roswell Biotechnologies and a multi-disciplinary team of leading academic scientists, the chip uses single molecules as universal sensor elements in a circuit …
Harvard researchers bring the accuracy, sample efficiency, and robustness of deep equivariant neural networks to the simulate 44 million atoms. This is achieved through a combination of innovative model architecture, massive parallelization, and models and implementations optimized for efficient GPU utilization. The resulting Allegro architecture bridges the accuracy speed tradeoff of atomistic simulations and enables …
Adam Brown (Stanford) and Robin Hanson (George Mason University) talk about some interesting intellectual concepts for the distant futures in the conference video below. Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute, talks about getting to the next level. She highlighted the need for molecular nanotechnology. Leveraging various forms of atomically precise capabilities are starting to reach interesting new …
The 2021 Foresight review of Molecular machines has another contribution from Dr. James Tour. James Tour and Roswell Biotechnologies just commercially released a molecular electronics chip. They attached molecules onto attachments at billions of points on a semiconductor chip. This speeds up DNA, RNA and protein reading by thousands of times and will scale to …