Editing Molecular nanotechnology (section)

==Reference works==
*The primary technical reference work on this topic is [http://www.e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Nanosystems/toc.html ''Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation''], an in-depth, physics-based analysis of a particular class of potential nanomachines and molecular manufacturing systems, with extensive analyses of their feasibility and performance. ''Nanosystems'' is closely based on Drexler's MIT doctoral dissertation, [http://e-drexler.com/d/09/00/Drexler_MIT_dissertation.pdf "Molecular Machinery and Manufacturing with Applications to Computation"]. Both works also discuss technology development pathways that begin with scanning probe and biomolecular technologies.
*Drexler and others extended the ideas of molecular nanotechnology with several other books. ''Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/ |title=Unbounding the Future: Table of Contents |publisher=Foresight.org |access-date=2010-09-05}}</ref> is an easy-to-read book that introduces the ideas of molecular nanotechnology in a not-too-technical way. Other notable works in the same vein are [http://www.nanomedicine.com/ Nanomedicine Vol. I and Vol. IIA] by [[Robert Freitas]] and ''Kinematic Self-Replicating Machines'' {{cite web|url=http://www.MolecularAssembler.com/KSRM.htm |title=KSRM Table of Contents Page |publisher=Molecularassembler.com |access-date=2010-09-05}} by [[Robert Freitas]] and [[Ralph Merkle]].
*{{cite book |editor1-last=Crandall |editor1-first=B. C. |date=25 July 1996 |url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262531375/nanotechnology/ |title=Nanotechnology: Molecular Speculations on Global Abundance |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |isbn=978-0262531375 |access-date=2025-03-03}}</ref> Explains interesting ideas for MNT applications.