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Images and Videos NASA Ames Developed Components

Fullerene Gears

  • (14,0) tube based gear
  • longer gear
  • gears of different sizes
  • with multiple rows of teeth
  • with multiple rows offset
  • gear/shaft configuration
  • cooling with a helium atmosphere
  • many MPEG videos

    A paper on this work is available at "Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Carbon Nanotube Based Gears," Jie Han, Al Globus, Richard Jaffe and Glenn Deardorff, Nanotechnology, volume 8, number 3, 3 September 1997, pages 95-102.

    Memory Probe

    This model was developed by Charles Bauschlicher and Ralph Merkle with additions by our team. We also did the ray-traced imaging.

  • Buckytube functionalized by probe over diamond with some hydrogen surface atoms replaced by fluorene.

    Ames Images of Components Developed Elsewhere

    Pump

    This model was developed by Ralph Merkle and Eric Drexler.

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    Fine Motion Controller

    This model was developed by Eric Drexler.

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  • bigger version with white background
    Responsible Official: Creon Levit.