Books:

Drexler, K.E. (1992) Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation New York: John Wiley & Sons. (Association of American Publishers “Most Outstanding Computer Science Book, 1992”)

Drexler, K.E., C. Peterson, and G. Pergamit. (1991) Unbounding the Future: The Nanotechnology Revolution New York: William Morrow.

Drexler, K.E. (1986) Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology New York: Anchor Press/Doubleday.

Other publications:

Drexler, K.E. (in press) “Toward Integrated Nanosystems: Fundamental Issues in Design and Modeling” in Handbook of Theoretical and Computational Nanotechnology, M. Rieth, W. Schommers, eds. American Scientific Publishers.

Drexler, K.E. (in press) “Nanotechnology” in McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

Drexler, K.E. (2005) “Productive nanosystems: the physics of molecular fabrication” Physics Education 40:339-346.

Allis, D.G. and K.E. Drexler (2005) “Design and Analysis of a Molecular Tool for Carbon Transfer in Mechanosynthesis” [pdf, 1.0 MB] J. Comput. Theor. Nanosci 2:45-55.

Phoenix, C, and K.E. Drexler (2004) “Safe Exponential Manufacturing” Nanotechnology 15:869-872.

Drexler, K.E. (2004) “Nanotechnology: from Feynman to Funding” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society 24:21-27.

Drexler, K.E. (2003) “Nanotechnology: Point/Counterpoint” (a debate with Professor Richard Smalley) Chemical & Engineering News 81(48):37-42.

Drexler, K.E. (2003) “If Atomic Precision is Unfeasible, so is Life” Nature 422: 257, (a commentary on Nature, 421:299.)

Drexler, K.E. (1999) “Building molecular machine systems” Trends in Biotechnology 17:5-7.

Drexler, K.E. (1996) “Molecular manufacturing: a future technology for cleaner production” Clean Production: Environmental and Economic Perspective. New York: Springer.

Drexler, K.E. (1995) “Molecular manufacturing: perspectives on the ultimate limits of fabrication” Phil. Trans. R. Soc. London A 353:323-331.

Drexler, K.E. (1995) “Molecular manufacturing: perspectives on the ultimate limits of fabrication” Ultimate Limits of Fabrication and Measurement Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Drexler, K.E. (1994) “Molecular machines: physical principles and implementation strategies” Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure 23:337-405.

Drexler, K.E. (1993) “Molecular manufacturing: a sustainable basis for global wealth” Leaders (Fall 93).

Drexler, K.E. (1992) “Towards molecular manufacturing” The World in 1992 Economist Publications.

Drexler, K.E. (1992) “Molecular Directions in Nanotechnology” Nanotechnology 2:113.

Drexler, K.E. (1992) “Molecular manufacturing for space systems: an overview” Journal of the British Interplanetary Society 45:401-405.

Drexler K.E. (1991) “Molecular Machinery and Manufacturing with Applications to Computation” MIT doctoral thesis.

Drexler, K.E. (1991) “Hypertext publishing and the evolution of knowledge” Social Intelligence 1: 87-120.

Drexler, K.E. (1991) “Molecular tip arrays for molecular imaging and nanofabrication” Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 9:1394-1397.

Drexler, K.E. (1991) “Exploring Future Technologies” Doing Science New York: Prentice Hall.

Drexler, K.E., and J.S. Foster. (1990) “Synthetic tips” Nature 343:600.

Drexler, K.E. (1989) “Technologies of Danger and Wisdom” Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing Norwood, New Jersey: Ablex.

Drexler, K.E. (1989) “Machines of Inner Space” 1990 Yearbook of Science and the Future Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica.

Drexler, K.E. (1989) “Biological and Nanomechanical Systems: Contrasts in Evolutionary Capacity” Artificial Life Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley.

Drexler, K.E. (1988) “Rod logic and thermal noise in the mechanical nanocomputer” Molecular Electronic Devices Amsterdam: North-Holland.

Drexler, K.E. (1988) “Nanotechnology and future supercomputing” Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Supercomputing International Supercomputing Institute.

Miller, M.S., and K.E. Drexler. (1988) “Comparative Ecology: A Computational Perspective” The Ecology of Computation Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, B. V.

Miller, M.S., and K.E. Drexler. (1988) “Markets and Computation: Agoric Open Systems” The Ecology of Computation Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, B. V.

Drexler, K.E., and M.S. Miller. (1988) “Incentive Engineering for Computational Resource Management” The Ecology of Computation Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers, B. V.

Henson, H.K., and K.E. Drexler. (1988) “Heterodensity heat transfer apparatus and method” U.S. Patent Office: #4,759,404

Drexler, K.E. (1987) “Nanomachinery: Atomically precise gears and bearings” IEEE Micro Robots and Teleoperators Workshop Hyannis, Massachusetts: IEEE.

Drexler, K.E. (1987) “Molecular Machinery and Molecular Electronic Devices” Molecular Electronic Devices II New York: Marcel Dekker.

Drexler, K.E. (1987) “Hypertext publishing and the evolution of knowledge” Foresight Institute: OP-87-1

Drexler, K.E. (1986) “Solar sail” U.S. Patent Office: #4,614,319

Drexler, K.E. (1986) “Molecular engineering: Assemblers and Future Space Hardware” American Astronautical Society: AAS-86-415

Henson, H.K., and K.E. Drexler. (1984) “Method for processing and fabricating metals in space” U.S. Patent Office: #4,480,677

Drexler, K.E. (1982) “Mightier machines from tiny atoms may someday grow” Smithsonian, 13(8):145-154 (Nov 1982).

Drexler, K.E. (1981) “Molecular engineering: An approach to the development of general capabilities for molecular manipulation”  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 78:5275-5278.

Henson, H.K., and K.E. Drexler. (1979) “Gas Entrained Solids: A Heat Transfer Fluid for Use in Space” Space Manufacturing New York: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Drexler, K.E. (1979) “High Performance Solar Sails and Related Reflecting Devices” Space Manufacturing New York: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Drexler, K.E., and B.R. Sperber. (1978) “An Aperture-Augmented Prototype Power Satellite” J. Energy 2:318-319.

Drexler, K.E., and T.A.Heppenheimer. (1977) “On the Feasibility of Small Power Satellites” J. Energy 1:200.

Phinney, W. C., D. Criswell, E. Drexler, and J. Garmirian. (1977) “Lunar Resources and their Utilization” Space-Based Manufacturing from Nonterrestrial Materials New York: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.