Archive for August 2009
Saint-Gobain ceramics facility lays off 70 workers
The Charleston Gazette reports that seventy workers at a ceramics factory in Buckhannon, W.Va., will lose their jobs by the…
Read MoreDOE announces battery grants
There should be great joy in the United States’ materials engineering community today. The DOE just released an awardee list…
Read MoreDOE allocates another $327M to labs, schools
In its final round of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-based awards, the DOE says it is going to provide money…
Read MoreJapanese research examines anti-clogging lithium-air battery technology
A press release shared by researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) reports that they…
Read MoreVideo of the week: Paolo Colombo on engineering porosity in ceramics
[Image above] Paolo Colombo Porosity is sometimes thought of as a flaw in ceramic materials, but, as Paolo Colombo explains,…
Read MoreFusion for less than $1 billion?
According to a Technology Review story, a Canadian start-up company, General Fusion, is building on two decade-old research and advances…
Read MoreConference committee gets U.S. energy, water appropriations bill
The two house of Congress passed their own versions of the Energy and Water appropriations bill that includes Department of…
Read MoreU.S. lagging on green technology?
What nation is leading the race for clean energy? According to an opinion piece in today’s Washington Post by two…
Read MorePiezoelectricity, flexoelectricity to power nanoscale devices
According to a press release, a team of University of Houston scientists has set out with the goal to use…
Read MoreFuel cell catalysts go subnano
Nature Chemistry reported that Japanese researchers have created subnano scale platinum clusters with high catalytic activity for use in fuel…
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