The 2013 Gordon Research Conference schedule is available now. Mt. Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass., will host the ceramics Gordon Research Conference—but it will not take place until 2014.…
Read MoreLots of interesting things going on around the US and the world: Quantum dot energy harvester: Turning waste heat into electricity on the nanoscale A new type of nanoscale engine…
Read MoreExamples of star-shaped waves resulting from vibrations in a tank containing liquid oil. Credit Rajchenbach et al., APS. Today I am linking to videos mainly because they are cool and…
Read MoreArt Institute of Chicago art conservation scientist, Francesca Casadio, explains to delegates at the 2012 ICC4 meeting a project that investigated the enamel paints used in Pablo Picasso’s The Red Chair painting.…
Read MoreMolybdenum nitride made from molybdenum oxide shows promise as a supercapacitor electrode material. TEM image of MoO3 single crystal nanowires (top). TEM image of mesoporous, single crystal Mo3N2 (bottom). Credit:…
Read More[flash http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/aacs_faber.flv mode=1 f={image=http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/aacs_faber.jpg}] (Updated) What do cutting edge materials research and the investigation of ancient ceramic pots have in common? More than you would probably think, and the connections…
Read MoreWhat an active field! Oxygen tolerance of an in silico-designed bioinspired hydrogen-evolving catalyst in water (PNAS) Certain bacterial enzymes, the diiron hydrogenases, have turnover numbers for hydrogen production from water…
Read MoreCrocodile skin sections (left) indicate that cracks correspond to epidermal bulges that reach the stiff underlying tissues. Immunohistochemistry (right) indicates increased cell proliferation (green) within the skin grooves corresponding to…
Read More2013 Program Chair Sujanto Widjaja opens the ICACC’13 Plenary Session. Credit: ACerS. The first “business” day of the ICACC’13 meeting plenary and award speakers (plus the awarding of the best…
Read MoreThe European Union is backing graphene and brains with the award of two enormous research projects. Credit: EC. Peter called it. Last week he told us about hints that the…
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