Archive for January 2012
Mechanism offered for how seawater could corrode nuclear fuel
When Japanese officials acted out of desperation and used seawater to cool the cores at the Fukushima-Daiichi reactors last year,…
Read MoreTime to vote for ARPA-E’s ‘America’s Next Top Energy Innovator;’ 2012-13 competition also announced
Late last year we told you about the reality-TV-inspired event ARPA-E is conducting — “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” —…
Read MoreHistoric January 1987: YBCO superconductors discovered and Super Bowl XXI
Do you recall where you were the weekend before the Super Bowl in 1987? Me neither. No matter, let’s play…
Read MoreToughened, flexible silica aerogel? Joint Japanese–Chinese group shows how to do it
This sounds like the type of breakthrough aerogel fans have yearning for. A newly published paper in Angewandte Chemie reports on…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Check ’em out: Scorpions inspire scientists in making tougher surfaces for machinery Researchers studied the bumps and grooves on the…
Read MorePhotoblogging from ICACC (Daytona Beach): Expo, Shot Glass Drop, posters and more
The Shot Glass Drop competition gave students and young professionals a chance to put their on-the-spot design talents to the…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing: Kyocera’s 315-watt, 80-cell solar module launches in the US Kyocera Solar Inc. has announced the…
Read MoreMinerals consumption: Tale of two countries
Not totally surprising, but I hadn’t seen these number aggregated like this before. From today’s hearings in Washington by the…
Read MoreNanomaterials safety research: National Academies sound alarm and urges cohesive plan
Nano environmental health and safety is clearly an important topic and one that is frequently referenced at materials conferences I…
Read MoreUIUC group: Can unleashed spores heal concrete cracks?
Concrete is tough, but whether its a sidewalk, driveway, roadway or a structural part of a building, the material is…
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