Archive for 2010
Materials stories that may also be of interest
At the end of each week, I end up with a list of a bunch of stories I started to…
Read MorePredictive value of Web searches, in certain situations, established
This isn’t materials science, but I think this work by a Yahoo! Research team (appearing as a free download in…
Read MoreMIT Energy Initiative receives $25M for research and collaboration
MIT announced that Shell and MIT today signed an agreement to invest $25 million in the research and development of…
Read MoreAerogels: The materials science of empty space
This is a great introductory 54-minute video of a lecture presented early in 2010 by Alex Gash and Dean Reese as part of Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s excellent Science on Saturday
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Sintering in a flash? Researchers show its possible to do it in seconds with nanograin YSZ, heat and dc electric field
Talk about tantalizing tidbits of technology! There is a new article available online that reports on research showing that green-density…
Read MoreGoogle invests in windpower “superhighway”
Last April I reported on a proposal to grid-lock offshore wind farms with underground transmission lines in order to keep…
Read MoreSaint-Gobain to open new PV facility in Korea
Saint-Gobain today announced (PDF) the building of its third high-efficiency photovoltaic panels facility in Korea. Saint-Gobain is partnering up with…
Read MoreMonday materials fun: The disappearing glass
Credit: Citoplasmas Stop Motion; YouTube Any theories? (The creators, citoplasmas, do a lot of work in stop-action animation.)
Read MoreOur loss, the trees’ gain: Steen heading to forests group
I usually don’t cover the business and membership side of The American Ceramic Society on these pages, but today is an exception.…
Read MoreMaterials stories that also may be of interest
At the end of each week, I end up with a list of a bunch of stories I started to…
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