Ceramic Tech Today

Cleveland RTA, NASA renew push for fuel cell bus project

By / May 22, 2012

UTC fuel cell transit bus, similar to the one that may be tested in Cleveland. Credit: UTC; Greater Cleveland RTA. Once again, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority and NASA…

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Photoblogging from St. Louis: GOMD opens with Stookey lecture, symposia, poster session and so much more

By Eileen De Guire / May 22, 2012

Over 300 attendees are here in St. Louis to attend the Glass and Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting. The meeting is organized into four symposia: Glass Science, Optical Materials &…

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News from the glass and refractory worlds

By P. Carlo Ratto / May 22, 2012

• The enterprise for the production of construction glass in Kairakum (Sughd, Tajikistan) has launched a new line for production of one-liter and two-liter glass jars. Daily capacity of the…

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Active week in ceramics, glass fields: GOMD, CMCEE and Ceramitec

By / May 21, 2012

It isn’t often that we have three major events going on in the same short stretch of time, and ACerS will be represented at all of them. ACerS Glass &…

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Topological insulator materials: From quantum mechanics to computers

By Eileen De Guire / May 20, 2012

Electrons on the surface of a topological insulator can flow with little resistance. Their spin and direction are intimately related; the direction of the electron determines its spin and in…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / May 18, 2012

Here’s what we are hearing: Welcome to The Cement Grinding Office, a new concept to support engineers and technicians working every day with a ball mill In the cement industry,…

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White House convenes Materials Genome workshop; wave of new MGI initiatives announced

By / May 18, 2012

National Nanotechnology Initiative’s schematic representation of knowledge/data flow in Materials Genome-type communities. Credit: NNI. The White House held a special Materials Genome Initiative workshop this week that involved about 170 representatives…

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Drink coffee for a long (and happy) life

By Eileen De Guire / May 18, 2012

Good news for coffee drinkers: A recent study from the NIH-AARP Diet and Health Study finds that coffee drinkers live longer. Credit: Wikipedia. Recently, I told you about research indicating…

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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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