FAUSTIUM the MOVIE
Looking for a way out. Faustium (coming soon)
After suffering traumatic loss, Doctor Dade Harkenrider is travelling to a scientific conference to announce his invention of revolutionary technology when he becomes the target of bizarre harassment. It begins with unidentified phone calls from someone claiming to represent powerful forces.
What first seems like industrial espionage takes a darker, more haunting turn. The caller seems to possess supernatural knowledge, from ancient history to Dade’s own secrets and shocking revelations about Dade’s past. As the calls continue, Dade is forced to confront horrors beyond science as the entire city surrounding him begins to transform into something sinister.
Christopher Rankin is a scientist and the author of Enter the Uncreated Night, Ann Marie's Asylum (Volume One: Master and Apprentice), Creating Monsters and his latest novel, Break the Bastion. He studied engineering at Rutgers University and received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, researching the nanoscale electrical properties of soft condensed matter.
He currently lives in Orange County, California with his wife, Jennifer, and a small pride of cats.
Patents:
Transparent hydrophobic mixed oxide coatings and methods
Patent number: 10059623
Abstract: A hydrophobic coating and a method for applying such a coating to a surface of a substrate. The method includes applying a coating composition to the surface and heating the coated surface at a cure temperature from about 450° C. to about 600° C. for a time from about 8 hours to about 48 hours. The coating composition is applied to the surface by an application method selected from the group consisting of flowing, dipping, and spraying. The coating composition comprises a yttrium compound, an additive selected from the group consisting of a cerium compound and a dispersion of yttrium oxide nanoparticles, a water-soluble polymer, and a solvent solution of de-ionized water and a water-soluble alcohol.
HYDROPHOBIC COATINGS FOR METALS INCORPORATING ANODIC AND RARE-EARTH OXIDES AND METHODS OF APPLYING SAME
US2019106794
Abstract: A hydrophobic coating and a method for applying such a coating to a surface of a metallic substrate. The method can include anodizing a nanoporous layer of anodic metal oxide on the surface; cathodizing yttrium oxide nanoparticles onto the surface; applying a hydrophobic ceramic coating composition to the surface by an application method selected from the group consisting of: flowing, dipping, and spraying; and heating the coated surface at a cure temperature from about 150° C. to about 300° C. for at least 2 hours.