Mark--
As Jones said a week or so ago about SPP, we are again meeting in Alice's rabbit hole. I thought engineering a system might work better than relying on chance to form the topology for LENR. My blog >>Saturday, March 01, 2014 10:10 AM<< suggests a manufacturing idea not unlike >>yours. I think we do have technology--it may be what Rossi is using. Check out the whole thread-- Re: [Vo]:"Christopher H. Cooper"-- on March 01 2014 for issues related to topography , cracks etc. Electronic chip making technology may also have some use. Such control of isolating LENR locations from the structural/thermal conduction part of the reactor would be desirable engineering feature for longer reactor life. Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Jurich To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 4:20 PM Subject: Re: Replications. Formerly [Vo]:LENR a gateway into the theory of everything. Steven wrote: | Do we currently possess appropriate technology that could, for example, allow us to cut grooves | and valleys in the target surface material on an appropriate nano-scale? I realize nano-scale means | working with structures as small as at the atomic scale. FYI (pardon my interjecting): You may be interested in looking up, “Nanoimprint Lithography”: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoimprint_lithography Photolithography (using Light/Photons) has severe limitations when reaching the nanoscale. E-Beam Lithography has High Resolution but very low Throughput, not to mention cost. Typically, a “master” would be made using e-Beam and transferred to an appropriate material for nanoimprinting... ... Combining Nanoimprint Lithography with Ion Etching/Milling (and perhaps Sputtering), etc., could allow one to achieve the desired Nanoscale Structures. Whether Nanoscale Surface Structures are needed is another question that needs addressing, but I believe Nanoimprinting (although not as cheap as we’d all like, right now!) would be a good way to proceed. ... One may also get by with simple nanoindentation if large patterning/replication isn’t necessary. Verification/Testing could be done by Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and possibly Contact AFM (c-AFM). - Mark Jurich
