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Still not at all with you in your buyout prediction, X. Consider this: smaller is much safer. I think this polymer (or polymeric platform) Lightwave Logic owns will be of great economic and national security interest to our country, and this could be partly why the patent work of late seems to be entirely focused on gadgetry design rather than chemical and chemical-process design. Call the latter “top secret.” This goes to an Intel, you can forget it. This stays in one small facility in Colorado, with Zelibor a sharp, watchful, and well-connected-with-the-military board member… security is much easier to maintain.
We’re all guessing, and it sure will be interesting to see what happens.
I successfully hitchhiked with my shotgun once (with it so cleverly wrapped up in an old blanket), but that was back in the 70’s, X. It’s probably harder to try to fly with one these days… not sure I’ll risk missing the ASM for that.
I was a high school kid - no other excuse.
No, I had given up with the golf clubs. I admit to giving it a boot. (Golf course owners WISHED I had used something lethal.)
Went golfing once when I was young. Ended up just chasing woodchucks, trying to catch them before they reached their holes. Got to one and sent it sailing 5 yards down the fairway: called it “MY hole in one.”
How about just some trail running?
If I’m following things correctly - and I readily admit I may not be - they’re not patenting specific chemical formulas anymore as they steadily improve “Perkinamine.” Not the chromophore “parts,” not the diamondoids and just exactly HOW up to five of them could be added at the sites of those pi bonds… Gives you a lot of food for thought re their importance and the whole of the strategy, doesn’t it?
NICE. This is what I speculated on earlier - partly to rile up the Kooger, who surprisingly didn’t take the bait. You just can’t put “potentially monumental” in large enough caps.
Try doing something complexly just once.
We suddenly learn Meg actually works for the government.
Fruno, Perkinamine is the polymer.
Also (though I don’t have much time), didn’t a problem come up concerning routers becoming something of a bottleneck that would limit the potential of our incredible modulators? On a quick read… doesn’t this new advancement deal with and resolve that? Might this not be what’s so newly “incredible”? Richard? Pro? Jeunke? Photonics Guy? Gotta run…
Lightmatter was specifically identified by TwoCents as having something going (at least very high interest) with GF and Lightwave Logic. I read this to be more, very exciting news.
See my earlier comment.
I'm not buying it. "Can't fix stupid" does not go back to one of those dudes.
Ye doubteth me?!
We will be. Dr. Lebby will be MACOM's surprise guest at this conference, introduced in the very hour of the release of our joint Press Release covering this first business partnership and deal.
I got myself laughing last night.
Watch. Lightwave Logic's "perkinamine" is going to be ubiquitous, alright. And why not? Marcelli's signed agreements with everyone in the industry, providing it at $2.50/lb.
Careful about calling jeunke an "old wife," Scope.
Dr.Lebby's statement here must be important:
"Furthermore, highly stable optical modulators using our polymers provide a critical upgrade for optical networks, which will allow network architects to focus on highly reliable, low power solutions using our ultra-high-speed modulators."
Could someone knowledgeable comment on the range of "optical network" opportunities he's probably pointing to?
I don't really even know if I've characterized the semiconductor potential very well - or in the right way, Pickle. But I have thought about the computing potential as characterized by Dr. Lebby (his adjectives escaping me right now) - and in doing that I've wondered about how he often refers to "our chromophores" - plural.
Why plural? Different chromophores for different purposes? Or each new and improved formula another step along the way and the older versions not really likely to be used? For instance, now that they've achieved that increased polymeric stability via insertion of diamondoids, are they finding a way to add, say, Oxygen (for increased negative charge) at one end of "the" chromophore's structure and something else like Hydrogen (for increased positive charge) at the other end? So with the chromophores lined up, positive end of one "touching" the negative end of the next one, the transmission occurs faster? Is that the whole of the tinkering objective for all potential uses they're seeing?
How about tinkering with a chromophore's structure so it will absorb the energy from a wider range of the visible-light spectrum? Is there any usefulness in absorbing more energy - enabling faster transmission, maybe, or just in being less wasteful of light wavelengths that don't get absorbed in that way?
How about creating a good, working chromophore for each color of the rainbow? (Here's where I get really fanciful and almost surely could get Dr. Lebby and others belly-laughing.) Could strings of them be used together - in lines next to each other within the plastic - for purposes that might include high-power computing?
YOU ASKED! I really know only enough about a little of the chemistry to be so wanting to sit with these folks at a table with a few beers.
Perkin'-amine. It's really "perky." I love it.
Perfect story, jeunke.
Way early. Worthless after 2:00.
I think often about how damned lucky these people are - the chemical synthesis pros... Lebby back through Falsik to Goetz... because it truly can be something like in "The Queen's Gambit" - did you see it ? - when the protagonist is staring at the ceiling and she's moving pieces through a big, challenging game in a trance-like state. Carbon chemistry is the chemistry of life: incredibly complex on the one hand, BUT once you "get" the basic rules of the game down, the whole world of it can open up. You find yourself dreaming syntheses... waking up and checking the texts - "Holy sh*t, that works - I got it right!" And you move on. But these folks... add in the whole world of complex physics as employed in our most complex of technologies... even woven in with the biological function of chromophores in "nature." They're messing in their minds with the dual nature of light, for godsakes - its wave nature when its in the glass fibers and coming off them, but then its energy captured by chromophores and needing to be "worked with" in its particle nature - the photons - those packets of energy as they're somehow passed along through the polymer... then what - DE-modulated?
I have to stop because it's beyond me and blows my mind. But I'm envious: there is an ENDLESSLY creative world ahead of them. The "tinkering" will go on day to day in so many different applications, now - and if any of you think Lebby and Co. are mostly in it for the money, you're nuts. Plain and simple.
X = 0 words. It's a mathematical enigma.
I have a fierce smile on my face.
MACOM folks have said they're excited to announce and describe their new products at those two upcoming conferences they'll participate in, the first one in mid-March. That's timed right with the "cycle" we're hearing about. It seems extremely likely they're teamed up with GlobalFoundries and us, especially given Two Cents' tip-off to us shareholders. And right around then we will be reading Lightwave Logic's last-quarter and 2021 full-year reports as required by NASDAQ, and there will HAVE to be some meaningful guidance for fiscal year 2022.
I confess to being a tad irked with Dr. Lebby. I don't think he fully appreciates where shareholders are with this manipulative, absolute crushing of LWLG's share price and could do something more for us - but I really don't doubt his integrity, nor where the company has to be at this moment. We're on the verge... we just need to fall back on our sisu and grit our teeth a little while longer.
Thanks... but sorry - I guess I'd just have to point you (without a link!) to one of the early, key patents I found in my research a couple years ago when I became so interested in this in the first place. The "failed" molecule was diagrammed, and the problems with its propensity for twisting, as well as the inclusion of undesirable, isomers were discussed and shown. I wish I'd printed it out and saved a link to it. Maybe later...
Now, I think it's the most recent patent - or patent application - that covers the inclusion of the diamondoids: up to five of them, if I remember right, can be inserted in the locations of the pi bonds between the chromophores (or those chromophore "parts"). I visualize this as creating a transmission line, so to speak, that is now (at least) CHROMOPHORE-DIAMONDOID-CHROMOPHORE (held withing the carbon-ring plastic matrix around it) instead of just CHROMOPHORE-CHROMOPHORE.
And I suppose it's worth saying the little something I know about pi bonds... them being different from sigma bonds. With pi bonds there's something called resonance that's related to electrons (or pairs of them) that are "delocalized," meaning they move around a little bit, basically. So with a sigma bond, in contrast, if you mess with them electrons, bang - you're breaking the bond and causing a chemical reaction - what's not necessarily so with pi bonds. Carbon rings can be (and are, in our formulas, I think) six C atoms all held together by pi bonds, and there are pi bonds between the chromophores, and I'm guessing that the C atoms in the diamondoids are also held together by pi bonds. If so, what I think we see here is HOW this material is or can be a "semiconductor." It's not a conductor, like a metal, with electrons literally able to zoom through the material in normallish conditions. But with limited electron movement occurring like this, and with a stable matrix (now super-stable!) that allows you to raise the material's temperature and crank up the polarization, it will conduct - and super fast.
Here in the U.S.! In Canada maybe all of 6.618.
Thanks, X. In college I used to dream this stuff and loved it. But I found I had no mind for the necessary P-chem if I were to go on with it - the physics of it all - like I have no mind for music. A big, discouraging blank. Zilcho. So I stuck with biology.
In case some care, I see I could have put this better by noting that Pumpkin's "squash" molecule had a structure without the stability of aromaticity - it was a skinny-waisted thing, really, that would twist at the waist rather than just at the arm of the chromophore. And also, from what I think I remember, it allowed for isomeric forms to find their place in the structure (same chemical formula, but, say, right-handed instead of left-handed) that helped mess up the function.
Aiee-yaiee... ya got that reversed, Meg. What we have in Perkinamine is a basic structure of a mess of carbon "rings" (picture a six-sided structure, a carbon atom at each "point" - the "lines" drawn between them being the chemical bonds), but here and there in the mix of rings is ONE ring that features a nitrogen subbing in for a carbon. THAT ring with the "N" instead of a "C" is the amine part. ("Amine," like in the amino acids that make up all proteins, refers to the all-important nitrogen.) It is the amine ring ("One ring to rule them all!") that allows for the attachment of a chromophore - that very special little part of the whole molecule that reacts to (absorbs energy from) some distinct range of light wavelengths. (Chlorophyll loves wavelengths running from blue/indigo to red, and hates the green so much it kicks it off and away so we see it: the green of green leaves.) So they can mess with this... make different chromophore parts (think of them as little arms) to attach to the body.
So you can draw this on a sheet of paper, and the sheets of rings attached like this give the structure a kind of stability that's called "aromaticity," which Lebby has mentioned now and again. To quote Wikipedia...
"In chemistry, aromaticity is a property of cyclic, typically planar structures with pi bonds in resonance that gives increased stability compared to other geometric or connective arrangements with the same set of atoms. Aromatic rings are very stable and do not break apart easily."
The trouble has been, "planar" (sheet-of-paper) stability isn't good enough! Pumpkin's great investment failed because the chromophore "arms" could go twisty - and that ain't good when you need them lined up rigidly in place and polarized so signals can go running along the strings of them, one to the other to the other lickety-split.
Enter "diamondoids"! (I'm cutting to the quick, here.) Think of actual, cut diamonds (made of pure or nearly-pure carbon rings, as you may know), and imagine them with their three-dimensional shapes "plugged in" at the locations of those pi bonds, tying the "sheets" together, giving the whole of the perkinamine structure a really rigid, wonderfully stable three-dimensional shape that won't allow for any chromophore arms to go twisty under extreme (like high-heat) conditions. Diamonds don't melt! They're our best friends, they are.
Yes, dude. But in addition - or as a key part of that - I'd point to what was said about how crazily the Internet of Things is growing, with so much of it to be powered by little batteries - calling for minimization of power consumption in all the gadgetry.
So long.
(Or was it, So short?)
You and the two or three others of us! Unbelievable.
Wow. "That is very, very interesting," jeunke (to quote one German most famous here in the U.S).
Yes, and with luck, tomorrow they'll explain the basis for such claims.
That Little Tidbit of news - yes, iFF only, Meg! What a move there could be for us.
We're partnered with GlobalFoundries, and Tom Caulfield recently made it clear he thinks tomorrow's big GF conference call will feature some exciting reveals. I believe this will at least point to us, if it isn't the time for our first joint PR.
Today and tomorrow DO seem full of potential for news.