World projected concrete demand. Credit: Karen Scrivener. Nature offers a new, free-access story by Ivan Amato that updates some of the efforts to lower CO2 emissions and the energy requirements…
Read MoreRobots setting unfired brick. Credit: John Hewitt; Interstate Brick. The first floor hallway of the Ceramic Engineering building at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is built in sections with…
Read MoreHere’s what we are reading about: Man-made material pushes the bounds of superconductivity A multi-university team of researchers has artificially engineered a unique multilayer material that could lead to breakthroughs…
Read More• Corning Inc. has opened a liquid crystal display glass substrate manufacturing facility in China. It is located in the Beijing Economic Technological Development Area and is the company’s second…
Read MoreCredit: J. Stroscio, R. Celotta/NIST. I am not sure how much (if any) of this could be affected by the sequestration decisions, but this is a reminder that NIST has issued…
Read MoreThe White House hopes to increase innovation in industry and manufacturing, in part, by making federally funded scientific research results easier to access. Here, President Barack Obama listens to Jeffrey…
Read MoreScanning electron micrograph of a partially agglomerated suspension of alumina particles, which have been directionally freeze-cast resulting in large alumina agglomerates laced with a fine freeze-cast structure. Credit: Materials Science…
Read MoreWe have received word that ARPA-E is looking for proposals for “developing transformational electrochemical energy storage technologies that will accelerate electric vehicle (EV) adoption by dramatically improving their driving range,…
Read MoreHere is what we are hearing: AGC’s large-sized, chemically strengthened Dragontrail enables efficient production of thinner touchscreens Asahi Glass Co. will newly set up a chemical strengthening facility for Dragontrail,…
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