Archive for 2010
Video of the week: Richard Brow on glass strength, phosphate glasses and the continuing allure of glass materials and applications
Richard Brow discusses his fascination with glass and delves into two specific
areas: tapping into the theoretical strength of glass, and the special
field of phosphate glasses.
FuelCell Energy, G3 Power Systems and egg ranch owner team up to power fuel cell with fowl gas
(Editor’s note: This post has been modified from its original version to correct that the fuel cells referenced in this…
Read MoreBand excitation scanning probe microscopy innovation earns award for ORNL, Asylum
The Microscopy Society of America’s magazine, Microscopy Today, announced it has given its 2010 Innovation Award to the combined efforts…
Read MoreTWiB will plug you in to advanced battery science and materials
Got some time? Venkat Srinivasan’s “This Week in Batteries” blog is definitely worth poking around if you want a lot…
Read MoreMaterials stories that missed the cut this week
At the end of each week, I end up with a list of a bunch of stories I started to…
Read MoreNanoscale field-effect transistors developed to probe cells
In the journal Science, a new device is described that fashions nanowires into a transistor small enough to probe the…
Read MorePolymer, bioceramic and carbon nanotubes combined for new bone scaffold
The University of the Basque Country (Universidad del País Vasco) reports that one of its Ph.D. students has developed a…
Read MoreDOE brings Secretary of Energy Advisory Board back to life
Deep-sixed four years ago by the Bush administration, the DOE’s Secretary of Energy Advisory Board will soon surface again after…
Read MoreGE’s $200 million ‘Ecomagination Challenge’ interesting combination of innovation farming, social media
Not quite a month ago, General Electric, along with partners Emerald Technology Ventures, Foundation Capital, KPCB and Rockport Capital, launched…
Read MoreNano growth forecast $26B by 2015
The global market for nanotechnology is forecast to increase to more than $26 billion in 2015, a compound annual growth…
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