Ceramic Tech Today

Ceder on MGI: ‘Materials scientists are hungry for data’

By / March 23, 2012

Screenshot of one of the Materials Project’s new tools based on a growing and dynamic database, the Lithium Battery Explorer. Credit: Materials Project. Robert F. Service, one of Science magazine’s…

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Ceramic materials as enablers of clean and green technologies

By Eileen De Guire / March 23, 2012

Materials engineering will drive development of the next generation of energy efficient vehicles. Credit: Wikipedia. News is ubiquitous about efforts and advances in the realm of energy, often in the…

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Workshop on improved access to ceramics property data in June

By Eileen De Guire / March 22, 2012

A June workshop is being organized to address issues relating to ceramic materials property data. Credit: data.gov. Steve Freiman (along with Lynnette Madsen and John Rumble) first brought the issue…

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Video of the week: Manoj Choudhary discusses his IJAGS paper: Mathematical modeling of flow and heat transfer phenomena in glass melting, delivery and forming processes

By / March 22, 2012

This video comes courtesy of our colleagues at MaterialsViews.com and Wiley’s Hope Inman. MaterialsViews has been experimenting with some new types of online presentations of various papers published in Wiley’s…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / March 22, 2012

The new OSRAM Ostar Stage LEDs for bright spotlighting with color mixing. Here is what we are hearing: MesoCoat hits milestone – cladding inside diameter of pipe Abakan Inc. is…

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Rare earth elements is subject of D.C. area radio show featuring ACerS’ Steve Freiman

By Eileen De Guire / March 21, 2012

ACerS past president was a guest on a recent radio broadcast to discuss rare earth elements. Credit: Wikipedia. Steve Freiman, ACerS past president, was a guest on the Kojo Nnamdi…

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What are the ‘Grand Challenges’ for ceramic research?

By Eileen De Guire / March 20, 2012

Mario Affatigato from Coe College identified the interaction between glass and living matter as a grand challenge that can be addressed by the glass and ceramics research community. Credit: ACerS.…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / March 20, 2012

Check ’em out: Ultrafast large-amplitude relocation of electronic charge in ionic crystals (pdf) (PNAS, Early Edition) We have demonstrated an ultrafast relocation of charge that is induced by electronic excitation…

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Greenroads groups award first LEEDs-type certification to ‘Poticrete’ project

By / March 20, 2012

Old toilets await new life as Poticrete aggregate. Credit: City of Bellingham, Wash. There seems to some new and interesting surges of interest in using recycled material in roadways, both…

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News from the glass and refractory worlds

By P. Carlo Ratto / March 19, 2012

• Dubai Investments may opt to issue a sukuk, or Islamic bonds, to finance the expansion of the second production line at its Emirates Float Glass Factory in Abu Dhabi.…

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