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Video: Grand challenges in ceramic science—Preliminary findings from workshop

By Eileen De Guire / May 16, 2012

[flash http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/rohrer_greg_grandchalls.flv mode=1 f={image=http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/rohrer_greg_grandchalls.jpg}] Greg Rohrer talks about the goals, process and findings of a recent workshop organized to identify the scientific grand challenges and emerging research areas relating to…

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Chicago is a great destination for a conference—and bring the family, too

By Eileen De Guire / May 16, 2012

[flash http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/faberChicago3.flv mode=1 f={image=http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/faberChicago3.jpg}] Don’t let the conference distract you from exploring Chicago! In this video, Kathy Faber, ICC4 president, shows us a small sampling of the attractions the city…

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Kill carbon in UV-emitting LEDs to make better pathogen killers

By Eileen De Guire / May 15, 2012

The efficiency of LED devices is limited by carbon point defects in the aluminum nitride transparency layer, which absorb useful wavelengths of light (around 4.7 eV). North Carolina State University…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / May 15, 2012

This illustration depicts the shape of diamond tips used to apply pressure that uncovered important new properties in the memory medium GST. The inset represents the atomic structure of amorphous…

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Hear through your head: Kyocera demos ceramic transducer-based tissue conduction technology phone

By / May 11, 2012

Credit: Notebooks: YouTube. You don’t have to be a hard head to appreciate this: Kyocera demonstrated this week a new audio technology for cellphones (and likely a wide range of other applications)…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / May 11, 2012

Here is what we are hearing: Unifrax celebrates 70 years of success with Fiberfrax product line Unifrax, a leading global producer of high temperature fiber products is celebrating a milestone…

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Brown University posts videos from Materials Genome Town Meeting

By Eileen De Guire / May 10, 2012

The theme of the second session of the Brown University town meeting on the Materials Genome Initiative was “Materials for energy storage.” The speaker from industry was A123’s principal scientist,…

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MIT Tech Review’s top 10 emerging technologies

By Eileen De Guire / May 8, 2012

Semprius (Durham, N.C.) was named one the MIT Tech Review‘s top ten emerging technologies. The company uses glass lenses to concentrate light over gallium arsenide photovoltaic cells to gain energy…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / May 8, 2012

Stanford University researchers have discovered a new way to ‘decorate’ nanowires with coatings of metal oxide and noble metal nanoparticles that greatly improve surface area. Credit: Stanford Nanocharacterization Lab. Check ’em…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / May 4, 2012

Here’s what we are hearing: GE Aviation expects to add 200 more area jobs GE Aviation Systems’ $50 million investment on the University of Dayton campus bodes well for the…

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