Ali Eftekhari (born August 29, 1979 in Tehran, Iran) is a professor of chemistry and director of Avicenna Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio.
He is one of the founders of Electrochemical Nanotechnology, and Editor of a leading book entitled Nanostructured Materials in Electrochemistry published by Wiley-VCH, and also an Editor of Journal of Nanomaterials.
He is involved in different branches of science, as can be judged by a brief survey of his technical publications. He is also known for his contributions to philosophy of science (see for example references in , e.g., in Ludwig Boltzmann and Ilya Prigogine). There is a great influence on his career from earlier works of Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann and Belgian chemist Ilya Prigogine.
Fractals Everywhere
One of the most active area in Eftekhari's scientific works is focused on the concept of fractal geometry developed by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1980s. Ali Eftekhari applied fractal to different aspects of science.
Fractal Electrochemistry
In a series of papers, he adapted the basic ideas for fractal analysis of electrochemical systems. Based on novel approaches and correction of common mistakes in fractal analysis of electrode surfaces, he adopted a new application of fractal geometry in the realm of electrochemistry and for study of electrode surface fractality.
Electrochemical Reactions
In a paper he showed that processes can be considered as fractals. In this theory it is possible to calculate fractal dimension for any process. Practically, he proposed a feasible technique for the estimation of the fractal dimension of electrochemical reactions. This mathematical factor can be used for the improvement of electrochemical reactions, e.g. in fuel cells.
Literature and Texts
In a different content, he utilized the concept of fractal geometry to analyze texts. Once again, in a seminal paper he applied the concept of fractal geometry for analysis of William Shakespeare's works. He found that fractality of literature is a measurable factor. For the case of Shakespeare's works, the fractality can be categorized according to some factor like the manuscript length, the type of writing (e.g. tragedy, comedy, etc). This theory was demonstrated by comparing the results with similar statistical methods. This finding can provide a new opportunity for mathematical analysis of the literature.
Nanotechnology
Carbon Nanotubes
Some carbon nanotubes are grown using a ceramic catalyst support. There are manufacturing and waste disposal problems associated with acid treatment to remove the ceramic-based catalyst support like MgO, SiO2, alumina, etc. Eftekhari and his co-workers developed a method for mass production of carbon nanotubes. Tused water-soluble catalyst support to replace common ceramic-based catalyst supports. By this action, it is possible to avoid acid treatment and reach a production yield of about 3,000%. Another advantage of this novel method could be to control the shape of the carbon nanotubes by varying the catalyst support mixture.
Electrochemical Power Sources
5V Lithium batteries
Lithium batteries are used as power sources for electronic devices such as cell phones, laptops, etc. Since its introduction by Sony in 1991, lithium battery is restricted to the cell potential of 3.6 - 3.8 V (commercially called 4 V lithium batteries) due to the limitation of Li anode potential. Construction of 5 V lithium batteries could yield higher power density batteries, and thus smaller devices. In 2004, Eftekhari fabricated an all-solid state lithium battery with 5 V potential.
Philosophy of Science
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann is the center of philosophy of science in Eftekhari's works. He has written a variey of papers, to emphasize the priority of Ludwig Boltzmann's philosophy of science.
Ilya Prigogine
He also respected Ilya Prigogine as a famous scientists of his time. He involved in the physical and social aspects of Prigogine's works. He was also on the position to write the obituary of Ilya Prigogine.
Scientific Aspects of Peace
Ali Eftekhari discussed the necessity for peace based on solid arguments based on statistical mechanics and theromodynamics following the scientific works of Ludwig Boltzmann and Ilya Prigogine (see for example A. Eftekhari, Let Us All Hope for Peace! - Prigogine’s Works and Sociology, Persian Heritage, 2005, 11 (1), 47 - 48; and similar articles).
He is one of the founders of Electrochemical Nanotechnology, and Editor of a leading book entitled Nanostructured Materials in Electrochemistry published by Wiley-VCH, and also an Editor of Journal of Nanomaterials.
He is involved in different branches of science, as can be judged by a brief survey of his technical publications. He is also known for his contributions to philosophy of science (see for example references in , e.g., in Ludwig Boltzmann and Ilya Prigogine). There is a great influence on his career from earlier works of Austrian physicist Ludwig Boltzmann and Belgian chemist Ilya Prigogine.
Fractals Everywhere
One of the most active area in Eftekhari's scientific works is focused on the concept of fractal geometry developed by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1980s. Ali Eftekhari applied fractal to different aspects of science.
Fractal Electrochemistry
In a series of papers, he adapted the basic ideas for fractal analysis of electrochemical systems. Based on novel approaches and correction of common mistakes in fractal analysis of electrode surfaces, he adopted a new application of fractal geometry in the realm of electrochemistry and for study of electrode surface fractality.
Electrochemical Reactions
In a paper he showed that processes can be considered as fractals. In this theory it is possible to calculate fractal dimension for any process. Practically, he proposed a feasible technique for the estimation of the fractal dimension of electrochemical reactions. This mathematical factor can be used for the improvement of electrochemical reactions, e.g. in fuel cells.
Literature and Texts
In a different content, he utilized the concept of fractal geometry to analyze texts. Once again, in a seminal paper he applied the concept of fractal geometry for analysis of William Shakespeare's works. He found that fractality of literature is a measurable factor. For the case of Shakespeare's works, the fractality can be categorized according to some factor like the manuscript length, the type of writing (e.g. tragedy, comedy, etc). This theory was demonstrated by comparing the results with similar statistical methods. This finding can provide a new opportunity for mathematical analysis of the literature.
Nanotechnology
Carbon Nanotubes
Some carbon nanotubes are grown using a ceramic catalyst support. There are manufacturing and waste disposal problems associated with acid treatment to remove the ceramic-based catalyst support like MgO, SiO2, alumina, etc. Eftekhari and his co-workers developed a method for mass production of carbon nanotubes. Tused water-soluble catalyst support to replace common ceramic-based catalyst supports. By this action, it is possible to avoid acid treatment and reach a production yield of about 3,000%. Another advantage of this novel method could be to control the shape of the carbon nanotubes by varying the catalyst support mixture.
Electrochemical Power Sources
5V Lithium batteries
Lithium batteries are used as power sources for electronic devices such as cell phones, laptops, etc. Since its introduction by Sony in 1991, lithium battery is restricted to the cell potential of 3.6 - 3.8 V (commercially called 4 V lithium batteries) due to the limitation of Li anode potential. Construction of 5 V lithium batteries could yield higher power density batteries, and thus smaller devices. In 2004, Eftekhari fabricated an all-solid state lithium battery with 5 V potential.
Philosophy of Science
Ludwig Boltzmann
Ludwig Boltzmann is the center of philosophy of science in Eftekhari's works. He has written a variey of papers, to emphasize the priority of Ludwig Boltzmann's philosophy of science.
Ilya Prigogine
He also respected Ilya Prigogine as a famous scientists of his time. He involved in the physical and social aspects of Prigogine's works. He was also on the position to write the obituary of Ilya Prigogine.
Scientific Aspects of Peace
Ali Eftekhari discussed the necessity for peace based on solid arguments based on statistical mechanics and theromodynamics following the scientific works of Ludwig Boltzmann and Ilya Prigogine (see for example A. Eftekhari, Let Us All Hope for Peace! - Prigogine’s Works and Sociology, Persian Heritage, 2005, 11 (1), 47 - 48; and similar articles).
Christina Gray is a post-secondary instructor and political activist from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Christina is the Alberta New Democrats' (NDP) nominated candidate for the riding of Edmonton Mill Woods in Alberta's next provincial election.
Christina was born and raised in Edmonton. Christina and her husband live in the Woodvale community of Mill Woods.
She earned a Bachelor's Degree of Psychology, with honours standing, from Concordia University College of Alberta, and a Microsoft .NET Developer Diploma from DevStudios.
An active volunteer throughout her community, she is a volunteer member and the current Chairperson of the Edmonton Transit System Advisory Board (ETSAB). ETSAB is a volunteer advisory board, set up by the City of Edmonton, to provide impartial advice to city council with regards to matters that may affect the City owned Edmonton Transit System.
Christina also volunteers with The Support Network, an Edmonton based organization dedicated to helping individuals in times of crisis and is on the Woodvale Community League executive.
Christina is an active member of the New Democratic Party. She is President of the NDP's Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont federal riding association. Christina was an active volunteer in the last federal election, volunteering on her husband Neal Gray's election campaign. Christina was a delegate at the 2006 federal party convention in Quebec City, Quebec. Christina was also a delegate and Chairperson of a resolutions panel at the 2006 provincial party convention in Edmonton, Alberta.
The members of the Mill Woods NDP held a contested nomination meeting on December 5th, 2006. Christina was elected by the local party members to be their candidate in the next election.
On June 14, 2007, Christina was awarded a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in the newly created Inroads category.
Christina was born and raised in Edmonton. Christina and her husband live in the Woodvale community of Mill Woods.
She earned a Bachelor's Degree of Psychology, with honours standing, from Concordia University College of Alberta, and a Microsoft .NET Developer Diploma from DevStudios.
An active volunteer throughout her community, she is a volunteer member and the current Chairperson of the Edmonton Transit System Advisory Board (ETSAB). ETSAB is a volunteer advisory board, set up by the City of Edmonton, to provide impartial advice to city council with regards to matters that may affect the City owned Edmonton Transit System.
Christina also volunteers with The Support Network, an Edmonton based organization dedicated to helping individuals in times of crisis and is on the Woodvale Community League executive.
Christina is an active member of the New Democratic Party. She is President of the NDP's Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont federal riding association. Christina was an active volunteer in the last federal election, volunteering on her husband Neal Gray's election campaign. Christina was a delegate at the 2006 federal party convention in Quebec City, Quebec. Christina was also a delegate and Chairperson of a resolutions panel at the 2006 provincial party convention in Edmonton, Alberta.
The members of the Mill Woods NDP held a contested nomination meeting on December 5th, 2006. Christina was elected by the local party members to be their candidate in the next election.
On June 14, 2007, Christina was awarded a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in the newly created Inroads category.
Anne Brodie is a television, print and online journalist, writer, reporter, reviewer and producer. She currently writes a daily film column for Sympatico MSN and reviews films for Monsters and Critics.
Brodie was CFTO News’ daily entertainment specialist before producing the CanWest Global documentary Ten Wired Days: the Director’s Cut, hosted by Cheryl Hickey, The Publicists for Guardian Entertainment and a Toronto International Film Festival series for Bell ExpressVu’s Festival Access Channel.
Brodie has produced for Entertainment Tonight Canada, Entertainment Tonight, E! True Hollywood Story, NBC and USA Entertainment in Toronto.
She graduated with an Honours Arts Degree from Trinity College at the University of Toronto, specialising in English Language and Literature, Medieval Studies, Fine Art and Film. She was a member of the Debating Team, Student Government and an Episkopon scribe.
Brodie is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Toronto Film Critics Association and is an Honorary Board Member of the Pat Marsden Foundation.
Brodie was CFTO News’ daily entertainment specialist before producing the CanWest Global documentary Ten Wired Days: the Director’s Cut, hosted by Cheryl Hickey, The Publicists for Guardian Entertainment and a Toronto International Film Festival series for Bell ExpressVu’s Festival Access Channel.
Brodie has produced for Entertainment Tonight Canada, Entertainment Tonight, E! True Hollywood Story, NBC and USA Entertainment in Toronto.
She graduated with an Honours Arts Degree from Trinity College at the University of Toronto, specialising in English Language and Literature, Medieval Studies, Fine Art and Film. She was a member of the Debating Team, Student Government and an Episkopon scribe.
Brodie is a member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, the Toronto Film Critics Association and is an Honorary Board Member of the Pat Marsden Foundation.
WWBN, WWBN.com, World Wide Broadcast Network Platform System is a broadcast network platform system (Patent Pending). WWBN is owned by World Wide Broadcast Network, Inc.
The WWBN Platform System was developed in order to integrate traditional television, commercial advertising, multimedia and the internet in a centralized broadcast network platform system that enable media elements and broadcast networks to interact with each other.
WWBN provides for the integration of streaming, broadcasting, and stored media files from the Internet or any other public or private global network. WWBN is committed to the open architecture movement, which seeks to achieve compatibility between software developers, application service providers, search technologies, and multimedia vendor's products and services through common, public-domain standards. The opposite paradigm (propietary standards) would limit companies to one vendor's offerings, thereby achieving compatibility within an organization's network while jeopardizing compatibility with global networks, customers, suppliers and partners.
Associated Businesses
Pay Per Click Video Search
Play Per Listing Network Advertising
Network Distribution
Network Broadcasting Live, On-Demend, Mobile, HD
Network Advertising (Pre-Roll, Mid-Roll, Post-Roll, On-Demand, Live)
Pay Per View
Syndicated Broadcasting
Video Share
History
The WWBN began development in 1998 and filed for intellectual property rights in 2002 for its broadcast network platform system, WWBN launched its Open Systems TV platform which included TV integration along with TV commercials as part of search results at the Search Engine Strategies trade show in Chicago on Dec. 9th of 2003.
In March of 2004 WWBN lauched the first ever Pay Per Click video search engine SearchADS.TV that enabled customers to post television commercials and other multimedia advertisements as part of search results, which turned the tables on the way users searched for information on the web. SearchADS.TV enabled advertisements to come accross as needed in direct response to user's inquiries, giving companies a more persuasive and users more informative and relevant advertising content.
In 2005 WWBN launched SearchTube.com in order to take a turn from the traditional search interface into a more video and media orientated interface in order to magnify the importance of video as a tangible advertising and entertainment medium.
In 2006 WWBN introduced BANS - Broadcast Allocation Node System as it was described in the book The Next Wave Of Information published in 2003 by StarGroup International and authored by Alexious Fiero President and CEO of World Wide Broadcast Network, Inc.. Broadcast Allocation Nodes are a way to numerically index broadcast networks and enable them to interact with each other. Although BANS were introduced into the market in 2003 the internet market was not ready for video online at the time and BANS had to take a back seat until the market was ready for video.
In 2007 WWBN began seeing more acceptance to its conceptualities of video on the web and powers serveral networks such as Tribune Interactive, Gannet, Media News Group, Scripps Network among others. For the first time ever these networks now have the capability to interact with each other in the vast video segment of the internet.
Patents
*Broadcast Network Platform System (Patent Pending)
Trademarks
*WWBN
*LiveVideoService
The WWBN Platform System was developed in order to integrate traditional television, commercial advertising, multimedia and the internet in a centralized broadcast network platform system that enable media elements and broadcast networks to interact with each other.
WWBN provides for the integration of streaming, broadcasting, and stored media files from the Internet or any other public or private global network. WWBN is committed to the open architecture movement, which seeks to achieve compatibility between software developers, application service providers, search technologies, and multimedia vendor's products and services through common, public-domain standards. The opposite paradigm (propietary standards) would limit companies to one vendor's offerings, thereby achieving compatibility within an organization's network while jeopardizing compatibility with global networks, customers, suppliers and partners.
Associated Businesses
Pay Per Click Video Search
Play Per Listing Network Advertising
Network Distribution
Network Broadcasting Live, On-Demend, Mobile, HD
Network Advertising (Pre-Roll, Mid-Roll, Post-Roll, On-Demand, Live)
Pay Per View
Syndicated Broadcasting
Video Share
History
The WWBN began development in 1998 and filed for intellectual property rights in 2002 for its broadcast network platform system, WWBN launched its Open Systems TV platform which included TV integration along with TV commercials as part of search results at the Search Engine Strategies trade show in Chicago on Dec. 9th of 2003.
In March of 2004 WWBN lauched the first ever Pay Per Click video search engine SearchADS.TV that enabled customers to post television commercials and other multimedia advertisements as part of search results, which turned the tables on the way users searched for information on the web. SearchADS.TV enabled advertisements to come accross as needed in direct response to user's inquiries, giving companies a more persuasive and users more informative and relevant advertising content.
In 2005 WWBN launched SearchTube.com in order to take a turn from the traditional search interface into a more video and media orientated interface in order to magnify the importance of video as a tangible advertising and entertainment medium.
In 2006 WWBN introduced BANS - Broadcast Allocation Node System as it was described in the book The Next Wave Of Information published in 2003 by StarGroup International and authored by Alexious Fiero President and CEO of World Wide Broadcast Network, Inc.. Broadcast Allocation Nodes are a way to numerically index broadcast networks and enable them to interact with each other. Although BANS were introduced into the market in 2003 the internet market was not ready for video online at the time and BANS had to take a back seat until the market was ready for video.
In 2007 WWBN began seeing more acceptance to its conceptualities of video on the web and powers serveral networks such as Tribune Interactive, Gannet, Media News Group, Scripps Network among others. For the first time ever these networks now have the capability to interact with each other in the vast video segment of the internet.
Patents
*Broadcast Network Platform System (Patent Pending)
Trademarks
*WWBN
*LiveVideoService