Robert A. Freitas, Jr., author of Nanomedicine and other works, and Ralph Merkle are writing a book-length discussion of diamond mechanosynthesis, entitled Diamond Surfaces and Diamond Mechanosynthesis (DSDM), to be published in 2006 or 2007.

Freitas is also involved in research collaborations to develop computational chemistry simulations of plausible mechanosynthetic tooltips and reaction sequences. He also filed the first-ever U.S. patent on diamond mechanosynthesis that describes a specific process for achieving molecularly precise diamond structures in a practical way.

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