Patent ID: 7309476

Claim:
A nanoscale device comprising at least one rod-shaped diamondoid for use as a structural member in nanoscale construction, the rod-shaped diamondoid having an even number of adamantane subunits, and displaying the following pattern when its constituent carbon atoms are projected onto the (110) crystallographic plane of the diamond lattice structure: wherein the atoms that project onto positions 57 and 58 are secondary carbons; the two atoms from the ends of a chain that project onto positions 51 , 54 are tertiary carbons, and quaternary carbons if they are in the middle of the chain that projects onto the positions 51 , 54 ; the two atoms from the ends of a chain that project onto positions 52 , 56 are secondary and tertiary, respectively, and tertiary carbons if they are in the middle of the chain that projects onto the positions 52 , 56 ; and the two atoms from the ends of a chain that project onto positions 53 , 55 are secondary and tertiary, respectively, and tertiary carbons if they are in the middle of the chain that projects onto the positions 53 , 55 .