Racist Nightmare: Those Iranians Are Making Nanorobots.

[NNadir]

While looking into some volatile zirconium compounds I stumbled across an interesting paper that would make the Orange Nightmare's comb over stand on its faux orange ends:

Computational design of a new pedal-like nanorobot based on nitrogen inversion

(Journal of Structural Chemistry. Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 1079-1084, 2016.)

The authors are from (gasp) Iran: Samadizadeh, M. & Gorgani, S.S Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Basic Science, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. 2Young Researchers and Elite Club, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran; [e-mail].

And the original text was written um, in Russian.

Of course, to disguise what they're really up to them start off with all kinds of innocent sounding stuff:

Most of the achievements and developments, regarding the standard of human life and the ability to improve production power, have originated from the invention of different kinds of machines and their related parts and consequently their technological advancement. In the past, this issue was concentrated mainly on mechanical machines, but at present the most noticeable progress is related to the invention and promotion of computer-controlled electronic machines and parts, i.e. computerized ones [1].Since a robot or a machine is a combination of different designed mechanism, each part is defined to serve a special purpose to improve the overall performance and therefore to transfer the energy with a higher quality. This approach can also be applied to a molecular indicator. To achieve this, some molecular elements must be set in a special manner to serve the set purposes and work as a nanorobot or a nanomachine. The field creating robots or machines whose components are at or close to the scale of nanometer (10?9 meters) is called nanorobotics [2-4] that refers to the nanotechnology engineering discipline of designing and building nanorobots. A nanorobot can be defined as a molecular machine consisting of a group of distinct molecular combinations. Therefore, it can be said that a nanomachine is a set of compound molecules and each can change in specific locations due to external stimulus.

Nanomachines are largely in the research-and-development phase [5], but some primitive molecular machines and nanomotors have been tested. An example is a sensor having a switch approximately 1.5 nanometers across, capable of counting specific molecules in a chemical sample. The first useful applications of nanomachines might be in medical technology [6, 7], which could be used to identify and destroy cancer cells [8, 9]. Another potential application is the detection of toxic chemicals, and the measurement of their concentrations in the environment. Indeed, the fabrication of simple nanorobots can be used to create more complex systems. Although nature provides living structures with a large number of molecular machines with high standard structures and complicated functions, chemists are more interested in developing and progressing simpler sets which are entirely synthetic [10]...

I tell you what, since our so called President is better at making excuses, threats and blame assignment, these Iranians can help America by giving him yet another absurd comment, that Iranian nanorobots are controlling his brain.

Seriously, it's a cool paper, relying on Aziridine molecular motions.

I hate having a mindless racist in the White House. It's already such a vast stain on our history.

[Igel]

1. The original text was written in English.

http://www.sibran.ru/journals/issue.php?ID=168692&ARTICLE_ID=168696

A number of overseas journals publish in more than one language.

[NNadir]

2. It's not a journal I read regularly, but in fact, I stumbled across it while accessing an...

...English translation of a paper in what is surely a Russian journal, specifically this paper:

Russian Journal of Inorganic Chemistry November 2006, Volume 51, Issue 11, pp 1750–1754

It's an English translation of course. I have no knowledge of Russian, and can't read your link, but my son, to his credit, lists Russian as one of the languages with which he's played around.

I've been very interested in volatile metals, in particularly zirconium because of the very interesting ceramics it makes, the wonderful oxide as a thermal barrier coating, and also the MAX phases for their machinability, nanolayer implications, and radiation resistance. This pivalate is in fact volatile, as is Zr(BH₄)₄, the subject of my original Google Scholar search.

I don't know why I thought this Iranian paper was originally written in Russian; the paper just caught my eye with the word "nanorobots" and the entire post is kind of an angry joke. There must have been something about Russia in the link.

Thanks for your comment.