I work on new materials for the next generation of industry.
Most hard-tech founders are scaling what exists. I fully believe that everything from engineering to deployment gets solved in a few years. I’m working on what comes after. The next competitive advantage is designing better atoms than everyone else.
When you have a battery that charges in five minutes, a catalyst with a tenth of the platinum, proprietary chemistry, or new physics, you’ll dominate.
From Atoms to Impact
Why most promising materials never make it from the lab into use, and the work it takes to get them there.
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All workMXene Interlayer Shear
At the Air Force Research Laboratory I simulated two MXene sheets sliding past each other. Dry, they hold to 103 MPa in shear. A quarter monolayer of water drops that to 8 MPa, and full coverage brings it back up to 39 MPa.
Interface Force Field
I use this presentation to explain the Interface Force Field, a classical model of how atoms interact. With rhodium as the example, it compares the model with measurements it was fitted to and with ones it wasn’t.
OpenSDL
I build OpenSDL, open-source software for self-driving labs. In its color example, a simulated lab finds the three-dye recipe behind a target color in six rounds of 96 wells.
My research on building with atomic precision starts from what has been demonstrated, such as quantum processors built atom by atom, and works out what larger structures would take.