ABSTRACT
It is believed that one of the most common building materials for medical nanorobots will ultimately be diamond or diamondoid substances (Chapters 2 and 11). The first and most obvious question regarding biocompatibility thus must be: What health risks, if any, are associated with the in vivo use of diamondoid devices or their detached parts, components, or detritus? There may be billions or trillions of nanorobots employed during a nanomedical procedure, and conservatively it must be presumed that some small unavoidable amount of in vivo nanorobot detritus (e.g., detached nanorobot manipulators, tool tips, or sensor elements, fragmented devices, or even nonfunctional whole nanorobots) might be gener ated during this activity.
