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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 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
  4. 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