Archive for the 'Funding'

E-glass fiberglass flywheels for low cost energy storage

E-glass—already a workhorse reinforcement for fiberglass composites used for everything from shower doors to printed circuit board platforms to boats to storage tanks, and more—may turn out to be...
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NSF-sponsored workshop on SOFC slated for July; participants sought

A workshop in July will consider the promise, progress, and funding priorities of solid oxide fuel cell technology. Credit: NETL. The National Science Foundation uses workshops as a mechanism to...
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Usable Glass Strength Coalition issues RFP to study flaw nucleation in glass

Glass beer bottle assembly line. Credit: EPA; Wikipedia. In January, Peter reported that the board of the newly established Usable Glass Strength Coalition convened for their inaugural meeting in...
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Argentina sets ambitious science investment target, brain-drain reversal agenda

Official video (in Spanish only) on new “Innovative Argentina 2020. Credit: Ministry of Science. I am someone who thinks people in the United States pay far too little attention and give...
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Adding up—NAMII announces first additive manufacturing R&D awards

Where are the ceramics? We are pleased to see NAMII make seven significant additive manufacturing R&D awards, but it appears that they are all for polymers or metals. Credit: LBL. The...
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