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Diamondoid
Technology > Application > Construction
Galactography > Other Major Polities, Empires, and Meta-Empires > Diamond Network
Technology > Technology Type or Material > Drytech/Hylotech
Technology > Technology Levels > High Tech / Hitech
Technology > Application > Materials Technology
Technology > Technology Type or Material > Nanotech
Galactography > Other Major Polities, Empires, and Meta-Empires > Diamond Network
Technology > Technology Type or Material > Drytech/Hylotech
Technology > Technology Levels > High Tech / Hitech
Technology > Application > Materials Technology
Technology > Technology Type or Material > Nanotech
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Diamond-like; chemical structures or systems (especially nanomachines as envisioned originally by Eric K. Drexler) based on diamond derivatives and/or stiff carbon bonds.
Diamondoid materials are extensively used for building purposes, as they are strong under tension, and under compression; pure diamond itself is brittle, but aggregate materials are both stronger and more flexible.
Examples of diamondoid include pure diamond (in particular nanoassembled perfect crystalline diamond), Adamant, graphene, carbon nanotubes, aggregated carbon nanorods, pandifico and diamondoid computronium.
Many drytech devices are constructed of diamondoid components, including devices down to the nanoscale level. Some computing devices (such as rod-logic computers) are largely constructed of diamondoid. The so-called Diamond Network AI entities are so-named because many or most of the early individuals in that empire used diamondoid computronium almost exclusively; today this is no longer the case, but the name is retained for historical reasons.
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Polybuckminsterfullerene; nanofactured fullerene composite produced originally for Beanstalks but which also found many uses elsewhere. Polyfullene has a tensile strength close to the theoretical limits of molecular matter; a single one millimeter strand can easily support many tons. The most impressive property is that it is self-healing: if the nanotubes inside a Polyful filament are broken, fullerene from the matrix heals them only causing a slight lengthening. - Woven Graphene
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Text by M. Alan Kazlev
from Anders Sandberg's Transhumanist Terminology
Initially published on 09 October 2001.
from Anders Sandberg's Transhumanist Terminology
Initially published on 09 October 2001.
