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Brenner, "Hydrogen Abstraction from a Diamond Surface: Ab initio Quantum Chemical Study with 
Constrained Isobutane as a Model," 
Journal of the American Chemical Society
113.9 (1991): 3270–
74; Xiao Yan Chang, Martin Perry, James Peploski, Donald L. Thompson, and Lionel M. Raff, 
"Theoretical Studies of Hydrogen-Abstraction Reactions from Diamond and Diamond-like 
Surfaces," 
Journal of Chemical Physics
99 (September 15, 1993): 4748–58; J. W. Lyding, K. Hess, 
G. C. Abeln, et al., "UHV-STM Nanofabrication and Hydrogen/Deuterium Desorption from Silicon 
Surfaces: Implications for CMOS Technology," 
Applied Surface Science
132 (1998): 221; 
http://www.hersam-group.northwestern.edu/publications.html; E. T. Foley et al., "Cryogenic UHV-
STM Study of Hydrogen and Deuterium Desorption from Silicon(100)," 
Physical Review Letters
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"Inducing and Observing the Abstraction of a Single Hydrogen Atom in Bimolecular Reaction with 
a Scanning Tunneling Microscope," 
Journal of Physical Chemistry
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Stephen P. Walch and Ralph C. Merkle, "Theoretical Studies of Diamond Mechanosynthesis 
Reactions," 
Nanotechnology
9 (September 1998): 285–96; Fedor N. Dzegilenko, Deepak 

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Srivastava, and Subhash Saini, "Simulations of Carbon Nanotube Tip Assisted Mechano-Chemical 
Reactions on a Diamond Surface," 
Nanotechnology
9 (December 1998): 325–30; Ralph C. Merkle 
and Robert A. Freitas Jr., "Theoretical Analysis of a Carbon-Carbon Dimer Placement Tool for 
Diamond Mechanosynthesis," 
Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
3 (August 2003): 319–
24, http://www.rfreitas.com/Nano/DimerTool.htm; Jingping Peng, Robert A. Freitas Jr., and Ralph 
C. Merkle, "Theoretical Analysis of Diamond Mechano-Synthesis. Part I. Stability of C
2
Mediated 
Growth of Nanocrystalline Diamond C(1lO) Surface," 
Journal of Computational and Theoretical 
Nanoscience
1 (March 2004): 62–70, http://www.molecularassembler.com/JCTNPengMar04.pdf; 
David J. Mann, Jingping Peng, Robert A. Freitas Jr., and Ralph C. Merkle, "Theoretical Analysis of 
Diamond MechanoSynthesis. Part II. C
2
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(March 2004), 71–80, http://www.molecularassembler.com/JCTNMannMar04.pdf. 
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The analysis of the hydrogen abstraction tool and carbon deposition tools has involved many 
people, including: Donald W. Brenner, Tahir Cagin, Richard J. Colton, K. Eric Drexler, Fedor N. 
Dzegilenko, Robert A. Freitas Jr., William A. Goddard III, J. A. Harrison, Charles B. Musgrave, 
Ralph C. Merkle, Michael Page, Jason K. Perry, Subhash Saini, O. A. Shenderova, Susan B. 
Sinnott, Deepak Srivastava, Stephen P.Walch, and Carter T. White. 
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Ralph C. Merkle, "A Proposed 'Metabolism' for a Hydrocarbon Assembler," 
Nanotechnology
8 
(December 1997): 14–62, http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstraet/0957-4484/8/4/001 or 
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/hydroCarbonMetabolism.html. 
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A useful bibliography of references: Robert A. Freitas Jr., "Technical Bibliography for Research on 
Positional Mechanosynthesis," Foresight Institute Web site, December 16, 2003, 
http://foresight.org/stage2/mechsynthbib.html; Wilson Ho and Hyojune Lee, "Single Bond 
Formation and Characterization with a Scanning Tunneling Microscope,"