Here’s what we are hearing (mostly via press releases and trade publication reports): Power Plant Services chooses Lucifer Furnaces Lucifer Furnaces Inc. recently delivered a single chamber bench model box…
Read MoreRod Lanthorne, Kyocera, Joel Moskowitz, Ceradyne, and David Morse, Corning address “Emerging Business and Technology Opportunities” at the 1st Ceramic Leadership Summit in 2010. Credit: ACerS. Most of the meetings…
Read MoreSEM images of the PZT nanotube arrays, all with outer diameters of approximately 100 nanometers. The hexagonal patterns are approximately three microns wide. Credit: Ashley Bernal and Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb. Investigators…
Read MoreBerkeley Lab researchers synthesized a molecule that mimics catalytically active triangular molybdenum disulfide edge-sites. The result is an entire layer of catalytically active material. Molybdenum atoms are shown as green,…
Read MoreThis year’s Engineering Week is Feb. 19-25. The week celebrates the accomplishments of the nation’s engineers. Credit: National Engineers Week Foundation. Eweek is a favorite activity of college engineering programs,…
Read MoreTrends in federal research and development budgets. Credit: OSTP. Last Monday, President Obama delivered his FY’13 budget proposal to Congress, and today, OSTP chief John Holdren is appearing before the…
Read MoreFrom left, David Bem, Athanasios Konstandopoulos and Gary Calabrese. As ICC4 president Katherine Faber noted last week in her video invitation to the July 15-19 event in Chicago, the congress is designed…
Read MoreSamples of decorative glass bottles made by PacificGlas. Credit: PacificGlas. It has been announced that PacificGlas will commission a new electric furnace and two production lines in June 2013, at…
Read More3D technology builds better body parts from uabnews on Vimeo. We’ve covered electrospinning extensively in The Bulletin, which of course isn’t limited to ceramic materials. A lot of the basics…
Read MoreFirst generation of Gas2 ceramic membranes before catalytic dressings are applied. Credit: Gas2. Processes for turning natural gas-to-liquid fuels have been around for about 200 years, but large-scale adoption of…
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