Author Archives: Walt

In doing research for an upcoming published paper, I ran across an interesting article.  In September 2019, a research article was published that postulated the worst case situation for a worldwide pandemic, of unknown origins, might have a devastating impact … Continue reading →

As the world starts to come out of the Covid–19 shutdown, there are many things that will be required for research organizations to address prior to beginning their research again. Businesses have a similar but different process that needs to … Continue reading →

I’ve written about validating scientific findings previously.  With the current COVID-19 (coronavirus) situation, there have been numerous published claims of various “facts”, which are based on models.  It was only a couple of months ago that the news carried projections … Continue reading →

As this month’s blog is being written, the US has a “shelter-in-place” directive that has been extended through the end of April.  There are many reports of possible medical treatments that may mitigate the current Covid-19 virus.  Most of the … Continue reading →

Additional information related to last month’s blog.  Single layer technology advances from the DoE’s Argonne National Laboratory have moved the Molecular Layer Etching to the atomic level. [Ref. 1] Argonne Labs have been employing Atomic Layer Etching (ALE).  Just as … Continue reading →

With apologies for using the title of a Peggy Lee song from the 70s, this reference is to nanotechnology.  There are continually more interesting findings as researchers move into smaller and smaller particle sizes.  The question really is what happens … Continue reading →

As always when reflecting over a year that is ending, there is good news and there is bad news.  We’ll start with the good.  A lot of technology is being created.  As mentioned last month, new material properties are being … Continue reading →

As the tools available become more precise and develop new capabilities, discoveries arise that are surprising.  Sometimes, this occurs by accident as happened by scientists in Germany, Russia, and Sweden.  The report [Ref. #1] indicate the scientists found a chemically … Continue reading →

With all the publications touting new materials or the creation of new properties of materials, it is often difficult to identify disparate findings into something that could combine into very useful devices.  We will consider two findings.  A team of … Continue reading →