Author Archives: Walt

About Walt

I have been involved in various aspects of nanotechnology since the late 1970s. My interest in promoting nano-safety began in 2006 and produced a white paper in 2007 explaining the four pillars of nano-safety. I am a technology futurist and is currently focused on nanoelectronics, single digit nanomaterials, and 3D printing at the nanoscale. My experience includes three startups, two of which I founded, 13 years at SEMATECH, where I was a Senior Fellow of the technical staff when I left, and 12 years at General Electric with nine of them on corporate staff. I have a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, an MBA from James Madison University, and a B.S. in Physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Let’s start 2021 out with a question.

Posted on January 31, 2021 by Walt | Permalink 0

In today’s technical reports, there are more references to Artificial Intelligence performing analyses of materials for developing an understanding of the properties of various combinations of materials at [..]

Misc Ramblings

Developments as the Year ends

Posted on December 31, 2020 by Walt | Permalink 0

As technology moves more into the nano realm, interesting items are turning up.  Researchers at the University of Manchester, UK have found quasiparticles in a lattice of boron [..]

Misc Ramblings, Science

Technology Roadmaps update & more unusual nano properties

Posted on November 30, 2020 by Walt | Permalink 0

In the June 2018 blog both the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors and the current International Roadmap for Devices and Systems were mentioned in a discussion of the [..]

Technology

Nanotechnology gets even stranger

Posted on October 31, 2020 by Walt | Permalink 0

Nanotechnology is interesting.  When one starts to think that we have a reasonable knowledge of particle behavior, someone finds something new and interesting.  A basic assumption in thermodynamics [..]

Nanotechnology

Below nano gets more interesting

Posted on September 30, 2020 by Walt | Permalink 0

Last blog mentioned metallic hydrogen at a very small level.  As the computational power increases, we are able to examine (theoretically at least) the behavior of various materials.  [..]

Science, Technology

Interesting things

Posted on August 31, 2020 by Walt | Permalink 0

A couple thoughts on Hydrogen.  This might be old news to some, but two Harvard scientists have created metallic hydrogen [Ref. 1] by employing extreme pressures. This material [..]

Science, Technology

New Developments in the World of Nano

Posted on July 31, 2020 by Walt | Permalink 0

Tools: In previous blogs I have mentioned that to truly work at a small scale, one needs to be able to measure to at least a dimension that [..]

Nanotechnology

Updates and Some Nanotechnology Developments

Posted on June 30, 2020 by Walt | Permalink 0

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 [..]

Nanotechnology

Research Impacts at the End of the Great Shutdown

Posted on May 31, 2020 by Walt | Permalink 0

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 [..]

Misc Ramblings

Scientific Integrity and COVID-19

Posted on April 30, 2020 by Walt | Permalink 1

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 [..]

Science