Category Archives: Nanotechnology

Developments in nanotechnology

Nanotechnology gets even stranger

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

New Developments in the World of Nano

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

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

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

Is that all there is?

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 [..]

Misc Ramblings, Nanotechnology

Mitigating Radioactive Waste with Nanomaterials

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, [..]

Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology Safety

New nanomaterials and implications

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 [..]

Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is getting interesting

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 [..]

Nanotechnology

Reliability

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) [..]

Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology Risk Management

A coming disruption in technology? Part 2

The design of the semiconductor circuit components has been evolving as the feature size shrinks.  The semiconductor industry has been able to develop new designs as older techniques [..]

Nanotechnology, Semiconductor Technology