Archive for September 2009
Gold used to enhance nanocrystal conductance
Researchers at Berkeley Lab reported a technique by which the electrical conductivity of nanorod crystals of cadmium-selenide was increased 100,000…
Read MoreMonday materials music
Chemistry dance party! Credit: addyson99; YouTube Now get to work!
Read MoreIndustry headlines
Kyocera introduces ceramic-metal bonding technologies Kyocera Industrial Ceramics Corp. announces the availability of a wide variety of engineered feedthrough connectors…
Read MoreGreen algae harnessed to make paper-based batteries
A press release from Uppsala University, Sweden, claims that a group of researchers at the Ångström Laboratory have discovered that…
Read MorePatrick Gallagher to lead NIST
The White House and U.S. Department of Commerce announced yesterday that physicist Patrick Gallagher will be nominated to be director…
Read MoreRaw materials strategy 101
Via RareMetalBlog, here is a timely example of one nation’s strategy, in this case regarding rare earth metals: Japan Accelerates…
Read MoreBlast from the past: GM’s other hybrid car
While clearing out some junk in my garage, I came across a October 1980 copy of Popular Mechanics that contained…
Read MorePhase change material in coffee (and beer!) mugs
I remember losing my fifth grade science competition to John Immel, a young boy who designed a coffee mug with…
Read MoreWho has the strategy for strategic materials?
Lithium, bauxite, rare earths? As ACerS corporate member Don Bubar, of Avalan Rare Metals, told CNBC yesterday (in something of…
Read MoreGiant solar farms in the works in China, India and U.S.
First Solar announced yesterday that it and the Chinese government had agreed upon a memorandum of understanding that, if a…
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