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  1. September 1, 2026Revised September 1, 202634 min read
    EssayEnergyAIMaterialsEngineering

    The Exponent Is the Price: Quantum Tunneling and the Architecture of Wireless Electric Grids

    The phrase "wireless power transfer by quantum tunneling" is, read literally, a category error. Single-particle electron tunneling through a vacuum or dielectric barrier is suppressed as e−2κd with κ=2m∗Φ/ℏ≈10 nm−1 for a metal–vacuum–metal junction. Deliv…

    Oleksii Vergunenko
  2. August 31, 2026Revised September 16, 202637 min read
    EssayBioTechChemistryMedicineEngineering

    Target Detection as the Rate-Limiting and Specificity-Limiting Step in CRISPR Genome Editing

    CRISPR-Cas genome editing is usually described as a cutting technology. It is more accurately described as a search technology with a cutting terminus. The chemistry of phosphodiester hydrolysis is unremarkable; nucleases have performed it for billions of years. What is remarkabl…

    Oleksii Vergunenko
  3. August 30, 202613 min read
    EssayComputePhysicsMaterialsEngineering

    TEMPO: A Time-Domain Ferroelectric Compute-in-Memory Macro with Drift-Cancelling Twin Cells and Significance-Ordered Early Termination

    The energy cost of moving data between memory and processing units now dominates the energy cost of arithmetic itself, often by two to three orders of magnitude for off-chip access. Compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures attack this bottleneck by performing multiply-accumulate (MA…

    Oleksii Vergunenko
  4. August 30, 202612 min read
    EssayEnergyPhysics

    Muon-Catalyzed d–³He Fusion as a Permission Structure: A Specification for Net-Positive Energy Balance

    Muon-catalyzed fusion (μCF) of deuterium and helium-3 combines two attractive properties: an aneutronic reaction (d + ³He → p + α, Q = 18.35 MeV) whose products are entirely charged particles amenable to direct electric conversion, and a catalysis mechanism that operates at low t…

    Oleksii Vergunenko
  5. August 29, 2026Revised September 16, 202623 min read
    EssayBioTechRoboticsChemistryMaterialsEngineering

    Engineered Living Materials as Robotic Integuments: Platforms, Specifications, and a Bandwidth Argument for Hybrid Skin

    Engineered living materials (ELMs) — materials in which living cells are a load-bearing, functional component rather than a contaminant — have been proposed as a covering layer for robots. Three platforms have produced physical demonstrations: tissue-engineered mammalian dermis a…

    Oleksii Vergunenko
  6. August 29, 2026Revised August 30, 202619 min read
    EssayComputeAIPhysicsMaterialsEngineering

    Multiplication Without Transistors: An Audit of Photonic Matrix Processors as Accelerators for Large Language Model Training

    Matrix multiplication accounts for the overwhelming majority of arithmetic operations — and a dominant share of energy expenditure — in training large language models (LLMs). Photonic processors perform matrix–vector multiplication (MVM) as a passive consequence of light propaga…

    Oleksii Vergunenko