iliatoli

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A cargo airship lifted by vacuum instead of helium (peer-reviewed)(sciencedirect.com)
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Dissolving atherosclerotic plaque without surgery(cureus.com)
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Dissolving arterial plaque by isolating the vessel from blood flow(cureus.com)
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Toward a Common Alphabet: There Is No Need for Menedzhment(zenodo.org)
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Closed-Loop Extracorporeal Vascular Cleaning by Staged Chemical Dissolution(zenodo.org)
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
fluorographane is a single atomic layer — one carbon thick — so storage density is naturally per unit area. The paper also gives volumetric density for the nanotape spool architecture (0.4–9 ZB/cm³, Section 4.4).
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
The journal (Graphene, ASP) ceased operations and the DOI infrastructure went dark. The paper itself is archived at ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/258423577. The content is independently verifiable.
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
The scanning-probe claim is real — C-AFM on fluorographane is achievable with existing commercial instruments. The paper is a computational prediction with a detailed experimental protocol. An experimental collaborator is preparing the vali
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
First PhD: algebraic cryptanalysis (Pisa). Second PhD: exact solutions to the Schrödinger equation for few-body systems (UCF). Both unrelated to fluorographane — the connection emerged later.
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
The fluorine doesn't pass through carbon. It passes between two neighboring carbons through a C-C gap of 2.64 Å at the transition state. This is pyramidal inversion — the same mechanism as ammonia (NH₃), but with a 4.6 eV barrier inste
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
Patent strategy is under consideration. Happy to discuss offline — ilia.toli@gmail.com.
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
Author here. Some fair points, some misreadings. The caching comment refers to the Tier 1 controller holding a bitmap of bits it has already scanned — standard practice in any scanning probe system. It's not competing with the storage
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
Fair question. In my case, each PhD opened a door that didn't exist from the previous position. The mathematics PhD in Italy didn't give me access to computational chemistry labs in the US. The quantum chemistry PhD didn't gi
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
Fair point. That's why the paper labels it Tier 2 (near-term research) rather than Tier 1 (existing instrumentation). Tier 1 — scanning probe read/write on a single sample — is the immediate validation target and requires no new t
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
Yes — the input files, level of theory, and software (ORCA 6.1.1, free for academics) are all specified in the paper. The calculations are fully reproducible.
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
Tier 2 requires near-field infrared optics at sub-10 nm resolution — that's active research in several groups but not commercially available yet. The immediate next step is Tier 1: one C-AFM image proving the read, one voltage pulse pr
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
Each PhD was in a different country and decade. Mathematics (Pisa, 2000s), Quantum Chemistry (UCF, 2010s), Materials Science (UTD, now). The fluorographane work exists because all three converge — the barrier calculation is quantum chemistr
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
The paper has been under peer review at Physica Scripta (IOP) since March 25. The reviewers will decide what stays and what's trimmed. You're reading a preprint, not the final version. The tone in the architecture sections reflect
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
No lab — the work is computational. All calculations run on a Dell Precision workstation with ORCA (quantum chemistry) software. An experimental collaborator is now preparing the C-AFM validation. The solo approach is a consequence of the w
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
Yes, Tier 1 is scanning probe — C-AFM specifically. Slow but sufficient for proof of concept. The paper describes a Tier 2 architecture using near-field mid-IR arrays for parallel read/write, projecting 25 PB/s aggregate throughpu
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
Not a typo. Fluorographene is the sp² form (Nair et al. 2010). Fluorographane uses the -ane suffix to denote full sp³ saturation — same convention as graphene → graphane. The sp³ hybridization is what creates the bistable C-F orientation th
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
It's under peer review at Physica Scripta (IOP) since March 25. HN is for visibility, not validation.
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
Author here. The paper describes exactly this — a nanotape spool architecture with volumetric density of 0.4–9 ZB/cm³. Section 4.4 in the preprint.
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by iliatoli 5mo ago
Author here. Three PhDs (Mathematics, Pisa; Quantum Chemistry, UCF; Materials Science, UTD — in progress), plus MS degrees from SJSU and CSU. The gmail is because this is independent work, not affiliated with any institution. v53 reflects t
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447 TB/cm² at zero retention energy – atomic-scale memory on fluorographane(zenodo.org)
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