Author Archives: Walt

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 →

In our June 30 blog, we covered Part 2 of an upcoming technology disruption.  This blog is covering material from the IEEE Spectrum magazine [Ref. 1] on a Carbon Nanotube microprocessor.  A more detailed article is available from Nature [Ref. … Continue reading →

It might seem odd to discuss reliability in a blog that focuses on nanotechnology and its implementation.  However, if one considers that we are using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in many different products to increase strength and reduce weight along with … Continue reading →

It’s been a while since nanotechnology safety was featured in this blog.  This blog has previously mentioned the lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) regarding the talc in their talcum powder.  The contention was that there was asbestos in the … Continue reading →