Archive for September 2011
Ceramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing: Duo’s chemistry makes it possible: natural gas produced from biomass H.C. Starck and Clausthaler Umwelttechnik-Institut…
Read MoreBismuth ferrite research sheds light on increasing PV efficiency
A news release out of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab reports that “the average installed cost of residential and commercial PV…
Read MoreThe thrill of victory and the agony of defeat: Some of each for CNTs
Rice University researchers, Robert Vajtai, Enrique Barrera and Yao Zhao created a conductive cable from iodine-doped nanotubes capable of carrying…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Check ’em out: Global support for nuclear energy drops after Fukushima Quantum behavior with a flash: Pulsed quantum optomechanics Europeans…
Read MoreMaterials Football Game of the Week: Auburn University vs. Clemson University
The Game Auburn at Clemson Sept. 17, 11:00 a.m., CT; Clemson, S.C. When my four sisters and I were young,…
Read MoreSolyndra: Wasn’t ready for prime time? [updated]
It still seems like the Solyndra thing is going to stay messy and politicized. From Bloomberg: Republicans on the House…
Read MoreMechanism for electric field effects during sintering
Last year we reported on a number of papers that were published in 2010 on electric field assisted sintering, including a…
Read MoreNew rules of engagement for universities leveraging IP assets?
I don’t know how generic the situation is (but I suspect it’s similar in materials fields), but a story in…
Read MoreNSF doubles its investment in Yale-Southern Conn. State University MRSEC enterprise
The National Science Foundation has awarded a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center grant of $13 million to a Yale…
Read MoreNASA shuttle tiles and space food available to schools and universities
Discovery’s under wing surfaces were protected by thousands of high-temperature insulation tiles. NASA is jettisoning some stuff they don’t need,…
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