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‘Print’ a house? Why not! Plus, ‘Rust Belt’ region awarded pilot institute for additive manufacturing

By Eileen De Guire / August 17, 2012

If you are thinking of building a new home for your family, you might want to watch this TEDx talk by a USC professor who has engineered a way to…

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Reactive fillers to produce wollastonite bioceramics

By Martin Grolms / May 3, 2012

Examples of 3D wollastonite-based scaffold from preceramic polymers with reactive fillers. This sample from is from fused deposition, after ceramization. Credit: E. Bernardo et. al.; Adv. Eng. Mater. The main problem with…

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Entrepreneurship and technology transfer focus of ICC4 and 3rd Ceramic Leadership Summit track

By Eileen De Guire / February 23, 2012

Rod 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…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Eileen De Guire / November 15, 2011

A fully automated robot arm pours molten glass into the sample mold. Credit: Knud Dobberke; Fraunhofer ISC. Check ’em out: Instant-on computers may be possible with modified materials Researchers from…

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Easy catch: Ion exchange traps radioisotopes in titanate-based nanofibers

By Eileen De Guire / November 2, 2011

Professor Zhu of Queensland University of Technology shows jars of sodium titanate nanofibers and nanotubes that pull radioactive cesium and iodine isotopes from contaminated water by ion exchange. Credit: QUT…

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Materials Football Game of the Week: Illinois at Penn State

By Eileen De Guire / October 28, 2011

The GameUniversity of Illinois at Pennsylvania State UniversityOct. 29, 3:30 p.m., ET I went to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an undergrad because it met my three criteria:…

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MS&T’11/ACerS annual meeting blogging: Keramos award winning chapters

By / October 18, 2011

Missouri University of Science & Technology’s Keramos chapter won the Most Outstanding Chapter Award. The chapter’s representatives, front row, from left are William Meier, Megan Gilbert, Catie Mohrmann, Andrea Els…

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Art Friedberg and me

By Eileen De Guire / October 13, 2011

Art Friedberg. The Friedberg Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Clive Randall on Tuesday at MS&T. Credit: ACerS Much of the joy in my adult life can be traced back…

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Simple nanoscale processes improve electrode performance in Li-ion batteries and supercapacitors

By Eileen De Guire / October 6, 2011

Scanning electron microscope photo of hollow carbon nanofiber-encapsulated sulfur tubes, at the heart of a new battery design. Credit: Wesley Guangyuan Zheng; Stanford Stanford University associate professor of materials science…

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Alfred U.’s Inamori Kyocera Museum of Fine Ceramics to be dedicated May 10

By / May 5, 2011

Getting a sneak preview of the displays at the soon-to-be dedicated Inamori Kyocera Museum of Fine Ceramics are Kate Wilkins and Susan Kowalczyk. Credit: Alfred Univ. Recently I’ve covered a…

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