Re:Not terribly useful for bulk Quanitites (Score 2)

Seems this process might be able to make a couple thousand synthetic molecules, but how useful will it be at creating bulk quantities?

I wonder if these methods could be scaled up and automated?

Not likely. This is kind of question I get about my STM images. People ask me if I can just write a program to go in and automatically digitize the location of single atom defects. The problem is that it takes many years of looking at STM images just to get a feel for what you are really seeing.

This type of work is very long and tedious. I would be suprised you could make more than a couple of these molecules in an hour.

Jeremy
http://stmlab.tamu.edu/