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45 Post author: leplen 29 June 2013 07:06AM

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Comment author: pcm 29 June 2013 07:25:09PM 2 points [-]

This page has links to 3 of Drexler's designs with pdb files. Can you simulate those?

Building those would require tools that are quite different from what we have now.

Comment author: leplen 29 June 2013 08:15:54PM *  6 points [-]

I'll try. 6,000 atoms is an order of magnitude or two more than a typical simulation for me, but I'll make some approximations and see what i can do. Is there a specific property you're interested in? Just metastability? The types of approximations that are valid depends strongle on what you want to know about your system.