OrbVPN
A post-quantum VPN, built to get through censorship.
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Nima Golsharifi
From atoms to arguments. Engineer, inventor and author. Scroll through his work from the scale of a galaxy down to a single carbon bond.
This scale opens: Journal · Gravity Doesn't Vote
Gravity doesn't vote
The largest scale holds the journal on public questions and the forthcoming book: rules that apply to everyone.
Go to Journal- 1021 mGravity doesn't vote — The largest scale holds the journal on public questions and the forthcoming book: rules that apply to everyone.
- 107 mPublic life — Talks, interviews and the press room. Every appearance is listed with its date, role and source.
- 100 mNima Golsharifi — Engineer, inventor and author of Dreamscape Code.
- 10−1 mBuilt by hand first — MEng in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southampton. Inventions live at this scale.
- 10−3 mPhD, UCL — Electronic and Electrical Engineering at University College London: carbon nano-onions for supercapacitors.
- 10−8 mSoftware, built hands-on — Privacy networks, apps, an AI film studio and finance infrastructure: 17,341 commits under his own account.
- 10−10 mWhere it starts — MSc in Nanotechnology at UCL. Carbon arranged atom by atom, the subject of the patent filings.
New novel · Tingle Press
Dreamscape Code
Six months ago Tom walked into a storm and never came back. Kate, a nurse, follows him into the worlds we enter in sleep, to the In-Between Hotel that guards them all.
Inventions
Power from radiation, storage from carbon
- 101Diamond-based charge generators, stacked against the source
- 102Radioisotope, embedded in diamond
- 103Electric contacts
- 104Diamond radiation shield around the whole device
- 201–206Inside each generator: ohmic contact, P⁺ diamond, P-type diamond, Schottky contact, insulator, end contact
- 207Surface functionalisation between the P-type diamond and the Schottky contact
Nuclear voltaic power source
US 12,394,534 B2 · Granted
- 1Spherical containment with radiation shielding
- 2Xenon gas at one to two atmospheres
- 3Radioisotope aerosol, its particle size tuned to each isotope
- 4Xenon scintillation: ultraviolet photons near 175 nm
- 5Wide-bandgap semiconductor lining, such as diamond or aluminium nitride
- 6Electrical contacts
Xenon gas nuclear voltaic source
US20260196372A1 · Allowed by examiner, 12 Aug 2026
- 1Nanodiamond, about 5 nm across
- 2Annealed at 1,000–4,000 °C under inert gas or in vacuum, for a minute to a day
- 3Carbon nano-onion: the diamond has become nested graphitic shells
- 4Surface functionalised with plasma, ozone, acids or UV amination
Making carbon nano-onions from nanodiamond
US 12,759,882 B2 · Granted
Software
Still writing the code
Hylon
An AI platform built on the OrbVPN network, with devices as edge nodes and its own GPU for training.
348 commits
Orbit
A browser built on Chromium, with AI, privacy and security built in.
120 commits
Tingle Studio
Book or script in, finished film out.
209 commits
Stage
Podcasts, interviews and talks
Video · TechXPAND, Riyadh · 10 Dec 2023
Panel: Technology that Powers the Future
Watch →Interview · New Atlas · 25 Aug 2020Interview: The NDB team on its revolutionary nano-diamond batteries
Read →Podcast · Energy CastEpisode 140: Durable Diamonds, with NDB's CEO
Listen →Interview · Easy Engineering · 29 Mar 2023Interview with NDB
Read →Work with Nima
Strategy sessions, advisory, software builds and speaking. Every enquiry gets a reply within two working days.