Archive for May 2013
Ceramics and glass business news of the week
Surmet’s large-scale transparent aluminum oxynitride armor window. The company is on track to scale up fabrication processes to double the…
Read More‘New’ material for 3D printing: concrete
[Image above] Shown in a video screen capture, Contour Crafting may one day allow construction of entire homes in a…
Read MoreNo question that NovaMin is effective for sensitive teeth
[Image above] Credit: P. Wray; ACerS. I have no new insights into GlaxoSmithKline’s decision to sell its Sensodyne Repair…
Read MoreResearch focuses on hydrogen usage, effects
[Image above] Sandia National Laboratories’ Center for Infrastructure Research and Innovation (CIRI) aims to accelerate commercialization of hydrogen and natural…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Discovery by U. Arkansas physicists furthers understanding of superconductivity, show Zhang-Rice singlet state in different class of materials Physicists at…
Read MoreNanotube improves ‘feel’ of microscopy
Julie MacPherson, a research fellow at the University of Warwick (U.K.) explains the workings of an atomic force microscope and…
Read MoreMetamaterial flat lens works at UV wavelengths
[Image above] Schematic of UV metamaterial flat lens showing alternating nanolayers of silver (green) and titanium dioxide (blue). Illuminated with…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• Nippon Sheet Glass Co. reported a 5.6 percent decline in revenues in fiscal year 2013, compared to fiscal year…
Read MoreWith $6M in hand, NSF and EPRI soliciting novel R&D proposals to cut water use at power plants
[Image above] Some power generation cooling towers are immense. Credit: Nick Smith/Wikipedia Commons/Creative Commons Did you know that two-fifths of…
Read MoreDamn the torpedo—PACRIM straight ahead!
[Image above] One of (now) two known Howell torpedoes. Credit: US Navy; Wikimedia. If you are attending PACRIM-GOMD in San…
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