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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Jim Destefani / August 12, 2013

Ultra-thin carbon-based wafer saws save silicon You can’t saw without producing sawdust, and that can be expensive if, for example, you’re sawing silicon wafers for photovoltaic and semiconductor applications. But…

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Research aims at greener, sustainable concrete

By Jim Destefani / June 27, 2013

Screen capture from video shows compression testing of a concrete sample reinforced with recycled industrial fibers. Credit: Euronews. We recently reported on how today’s concrete industry could take a few…

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Other materials science stories that may be of interest

By / July 3, 2012

Georgia Tech researchers pose with a computer model of graphene oxide’s structure and the chemical species that become part of it. Shown are (l-r, first row) Elisa Riedo and Suenne…

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Haiti update: Georgia Tech humanitarian logistics and civil engineering/cements experts launch new effort to assess & reduce earthquake risks

By / August 10, 2011

Seismic and plate tectonic setting of the Caribbean region. Credit: Eric Calais, Purdue Univ. Back in early January, I had a story about proposal from a Georgia Tech team of…

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Get flexible: Georgia Tech group shows how to ‘draw’ nano-sized ferroelectric structures on plastic substrates

By / July 20, 2011

Georgia Tech researchers display samples of materials on which ferroelectric nanostructures have been fabricated by thermochemical nanolithography. Graduate research assistant Yaser Bastani (left) with silicon, assistant professor Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb with…

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White House invests $500M in Advanced Manufacturing Partnership

By Eileen De Guire / June 29, 2011

President Barack Obama announces Advanced Manufacturing Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University. Credit: Pete Souza; Official White House Photo. Last week President Obama unveiled a new initiative to invest in emerging…

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Jesse ‘J.D.’ Walton 1925–2011

By / June 27, 2011

Longtime Georgia Tech researcher Jesse D. “J.D.” Walton Jr., of Atlanta, died Feb. 11 at the age of 85. After graduating from Tech with a bachelor’s degree in ceramic engineering…

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New barium oxide/nickel interface demonstrated for self-cleaning, lower temp SOFC anode

By / June 23, 2011

Regents professor Meilin Liu (right) and postdoctoral researcher Mingfei Liu examine a button fuel cell used to evaluate a new self-cleaning anode material based on barium oxide. The self-cleaning technique…

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Video of the week: Z.L. Wang on piezoeletronics and piezophotoeletronics

By / February 15, 2011

[flash https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/zl_wang.flv mode=1 f={image=/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/zl_wang.jpg}] Georgia Tech’s Zhong-Lin Wang was a plenary speaker at the recent 35th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites. There, I was able to catch up…

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NPR: Haitians take rubble removal into own hands

By / January 13, 2011

(Credit: Jonathan Pankau/Wikimedia Commons.) Last week we had about a report from researchers at Georgia Tech who show how concrete rubble from the earthquake can be safely recycled into stronger…

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