Archive for February 2013
Ceramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: AGC’s large-sized, chemically strengthened Dragontrail enables efficient production of thinner touchscreens Asahi Glass Co.…
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Some other stories and papers worth looking into: Coupling the valley degree of freedom to antiferromagnetic order (PNAS) The exploration…
Read MoreMultidisciplinary approaches to materials discovery needed for MGI
[Image above] Last week a National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop addressed multidisciplinary approaches to the Materials Genome Initiative. From left: Gregory…
Read MoreHench to receive Toledo Glass & Ceramic Award
Hench. Credit: Imperial College. The Michigan/NW Ohio Section of The American Ceramic Society just announced that the recipient of the…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• Glass tableware manufacturer Libbey plans to cut capacity and reduce staff within its North American business. The company said…
Read MoreUniversity of Bremen €4.5M launching MIMENIMA porous advanced ceramic effort; Is hiring
The University of Bremen (Germany) today announced that it has €4.5 million in funding for a project to tailor…
Read More‘Summer camp’ for science—Gordon Research Conferences 2013
The 2013 Gordon Research Conference schedule is available now. Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., will host the ceramics…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: Around the world of ceramics in eight minutes: CeramTec launches additional international websites In…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Lots of interesting things going on around the US and the world: Quantum dot energy harvester: Turning waste heat into…
Read MoreTrucking solar energy—U. Delaware team dissociates zinc oxide in solar reactor to make ‘solar fuel’
[Image above] Schematic diagram of one tile of solar reactor. Fifteen tiles arranged in a funnel shape comprise a…
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