By reducing typical sintering temperatures from >1000ºC to <300ºC, cold sintering offers the potential to both increase energy efficiency and drastically reduce manufacturing costs—a win–win for manufacturers and consumers alike.
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Continuing the trend towards novel industry–academia partnerships, Morgan Advanced Materials and Pennsylvania State University recently announced they’re pairing up to form a new R&D center focused solely on advancing carbon materials.
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Scientists at Pennsylvania State University are working on a new high-pressure technique that could open the door to more cost-effective production of large, flexible solar panels.
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A team of researchers at Pennsylvania State University has created a new electronic material that can heal all its functions automatically, even after breaking multiple times.
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Researchers at Pennsylvania State University and Solid State Ceramics Inc. have modified hard-piezoceramic materials to realize the potential of piezoelectric transformers—which hold promise to reduce size and boost the efficiency of consumer electronic devices.
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CoorsTek expands medical-grade ceramics, PPG donates to Penn State Materials Research, and more ceramics and glass business news of the week for August 28, 2015.
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Separating rare earths with UV light, NASA testing materials in space, and other materials stories that may be of interest for May 19, 2015.
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