Archive for May 2011
Nanoscale intergranular films shed light on grain boundary behavior
During one of their studies, grain boundary researchers began with gold films broken into particles (via annealing) dispersed across a…
Read MoreEnergy Frontier Research Centers to showcase work on ‘grand challenges’
The next few days should be fun for materials scientists and engineers. Tomorrow (May 25) begins the start of a…
Read MoreSRNL’s John Marra speaks to GOMD about materials for nuclear energy and impact of Fukushima incident
John Marra, chief research officer at Savannah River National Lab spoke at the conference dinner at the annual meeting of…
Read MoreGoing pro: Ceramist De Guire joins blog, ACerS communications staff
On behalf of The American Ceramic Society, I am very pleased to officially announce that Eileen De Guire is now…
Read MoreFractured plans: After $10M expenditure, tempering problems lead to abandonment of 1 World Trade Center’s prism glass façade
Although it seems that the decision actually was made several weeks ago, news is just now starting to bubble up…
Read MoreNEW Global Young Investigators Forum at ICACC’12
TAMU group’s ultrathin polymer–clay coating creates flexible, transparent gas barrier
It’s easy to imagine that the makers of food products have a wish list for packaging that, besides the obvious…
Read MoreMaterials stories that may also be of interest
Check ’em out: Princeton engineers make breakthrough in ultrasensitive Raman-based sensor Princeton researchers have invented an extremely sensitive sensor that…
Read MoreAlfred U.’s Inamori Kyocera Museum of Fine Ceramics to be dedicated May 10
Recently I’ve covered a few stories related to exhibitions on technical ceramics (e.g., here and here), but these have been…
Read MoreRevolution in wound care? Inexpensive, easy-to-use cotton candy-like glass fibers appear to speed healing in initial venous stasis wound trial
[Image above] When applied to venous stasis wounds, the borate glass nanofibers developed at Missouri S&T and produced by Mo-Sci…
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