notice. It has been years since I worked as a chemist.
But one does not hold a degree in organic chemistry (in my case with a biochemistry tilt) without understanding something about polymer chemistry. Knowledge of hydro-carbon mechanisms has progressed greatly, of course; but challenges to the appropriation of those mechanisms during chemical synthesis remain and I have read enough away from ITKG to know that some of the same difficulties we faced years ago still stymie polymer chemists. So, while I'm am not going to advise you or anyone, I am confident enough for myself that I understand the difference between synthetic polymerization and polymer amalgamation to know the difference and also some of the difficulties pertaining to each.
As far as a polymer amalgamate is concerned, consider this: it doesn't take years and years to make a mold to extrude a polymer or polymer amalgamation; but it might if the polymer amalgamate being molded must achieve various forms of conductive consistency out of mass production so that the manufacturer can make a profit. To mold you must apply heat and heat does strange things to conductors which may interfere with resultant product consistency. Conductors after all have polarity and generally polarity is affected when heat is applied. One thing I do know is that true synthetic polymers, i.e. in which the conductor is part of the molecule itself, involve highly technical and expensive chemistry and they themselves have not proven so far to be free from instability over the long term. Tom is not a polymer chemist and were he he wouldn't be developing electriplast(s) in a strip mall. The Nobel laureates awarded for synthesis worked years in sophisticated laboratories. The cost of such resultant raw material would be prohibitive for a manufacturer using it.
Jasper has been touting the wonders of ITKG's amalgamate. But even though it could, for this is what it does using other plastics (polymers), it seems itself to have so far molded no products. Its contract is only to manufacture electriplast(s) for other manufacturers who put it into their envisioned final products. Meanwhile those announced companies that "contracted" (for $1) to mold the material also seem to have fallen silent, for they have yet (after over a year) to produce and market a single product. At least one or two of those have indicated they are doing little with it at this time and evidence that their time-bound contracts with ITKG have been renewed is lacking. The more that happens and the longer such a scenario goes on is a tell-tale sign that something envisioned doesn't happen as planned; perhaps, because of product inconsistency which undermines the profit margin a manufacturer needs to produce and market something the public will want.
As your friends say, companies do have a right to keep R & D secret. They can do so for hundreds of years or more if they wish to do so. But I think I'll die before then, just like a dear friend of mine recently did before he realized any profit from his investment in ITKG. So those who have a few decades and centuries to spare should stick with ITKG. I'd like to make enough to buy an ice cream cone before I die. 8 or so years was enough for me.
By the way, it was my knowledge of polymer chemistry, that resulted in the selection of the specific polymer used in making the first successful membrane envelopes for the first membrane oxygenator in the world to be employed clinically for the extra corporeal perfusion of ADULT cardiac patients (and I was the first to operate clinically) and which a year ago was the support system for the bypass operation I underwent myself. My surgeon told me that over 60% of the world's cardiac surgeons are now employing this technology.
Good luck. I'll not slam you or anyone. This isn't about you or me. It's about a company and its credibility. That won't be established by all the friends in the world; but only by real companies making products which the public sufficiently adopt so that those companies, and ITKG's shareholders (and Jasper) makes a profit too. Years have passed and so far, despite all the glowing "soon" promises, that hasn't happened and there is no indication that anything "soon" is on the horizon. As for hints and promises from ITKG about products going to market, virtually all have proven over and over again to be vacuous. In this case "silence" has not proved golden and this year above all ITKG has treated many of its dedicated shareholders with complete disregard.
notice. Out of respect for my friends who set up this board about the time I left the LL group and sold my shares, I really shouldn't dialog here. If you wish to pursue this further you can find me on the RB board.
AI
