Category Archives: Technology

Progress and Concerns

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. [..]

Nanotechnology, Technology

Technology Roadmaps

The term “roadmap” implies something (a document, a pictorial representation, etc.) that provides the guidance to get from one point to another.  Due to the lack of a [..]

Technology

Structured Materials

There is more reporting of “structured” materials.  The terminology employed to define “structured” overlaps with “metamaterials”.   First metamaterials are typically an engineered assembly of various elements that are [..]

Science, Technology

2-dimentional material and other nano properties

Material: Two-dimensional materials seem to have a staying power in various technical news magazines.  The US Department of Energy released a report on efforts involving the Lawrence Berkeley [..]

Nanotechnology, Technology

“In-between” Manufacturing

The volume manufacturing of electronics has been around since the early 1900s.  The introduction of the printed wiring (or circuit) board has been the basis of most of [..]

Technology

Memristors

This blog is a slight variation from the typical nanotechnology ones. The frequency of the mention of memristors has been increasing. Memristors are novel components of circuits which [..]

Electronics, Technology

Graphene revisited

Graphene has been in the news lately.  Given that graphene has superior electrical mobility compared to silicon and is some 200 times stronger than steel, it is understandable [..]

Nanotechnology, Technology

Graphene is a hot topic, but what are we missing?

Recent articles [1, 2, 3, 4] show that people are interested in producing graphene in many differ ways.  The referenced articles provide descriptions of various means of manufacturing [..]

Nanotechnology, Technology

Nano Silver and Graphene

There are two separate topics in this blog: Nanosilver and Graphene.   Nanosilver is back in the news.  The headline from a recent web article [1] states: Research into [..]

Nanotechnology, Technology

Carbon Nano Tubes (CNTs) are in the news again

CNTs are again a popular subject for predicting doom if they continue to be applied in products.  The article that started the line of thought in last week’s [..]

Nanotechnology, Technology