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NE1 Used to Analyze Theoretical Nanosystems |
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NanoEngineer-1 is becoming an indispensable tool for students studying the nascent field of nanomechanical engineering. With a flexible and powerful set of modeling capabilities, students are able to design nanoscale components and analyze them with the molecular dynamics simulator included with NanoEngineer-1.
K. Eric Drexler's book, Nanosystems, includes a number of theoretical nanomechanical devices that introduce students to the broad range of disiplines of nanomechanical engineering. Many of the examples illustrated in his book are being modeled and simulated in NanoEngineer-1 to understand how they perform and how they might be improved. NanoEngineer-1 includes powerful 3-D modeling capabilities that give users a rich set of tools to quickly modify and study variations of a particular design. NanoEngineer-1 guides the user through the engineering process helping to identify non-starter designs early in the engineering cycle while encouraging work on more successful designs.
To see how easy it is to create the small bearing pictured in this article, click on the Tutorials menu and select the Building the Small Bearing from Nanosystems (page 298) tutorial video.
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