Archive for 2011
Ceramics and glass business news this week
Here’s what we are hearing: Nanocerox expands Manufacturing and Research & Development operations by 20% to meet continued market demands…
Read MoreThe Energy Race and the search for commodity catalyst materials
Today’s online MIT News reports on work being done by associate professor Yang Shao-Horn on a simple way to identify…
Read MoreTunable mechanical properties in nanoscale porous gold
Several recent, unrelated posts have been about materials with nanoscale porosity (diamond aerogels, chalcogenide PCMM). Here is another one, but…
Read MoreScience communications gets fresh (and smart) down under
Can you explain your research to a coworker? That’s probably fairly easy. How about your spouse? Or your parents? Get’s…
Read MoreMaterials stories that may also be of interest
Check ‘em out: Three Mercedes-Benz hydrogen cell vehicles have successfully completed their 30,000-kilometer F-CELL World Drive Stealthy chip startup’s technology…
Read More$70M available from DOE for cost-cutting geothermal tech proposals
The Department of Energy just announced that it has $70 million to spend on proposals for technology advancements that can…
Read MoreFollow up: Chalcogenide phase-change memory materials for high-speed, low-power data storage
I’ve received some follow-up information from Gang Chen, whose work on phase-change memory chalcogenide materials I wrote about earlier this…
Read MoreNew paint pigment for ceramic tiles can cool Thai roofs by 2°C
Houses in Thailand typically have steep roofs and may benefit from new, cooler ceramic tile pigment. A two-degree temperature drop…
Read MoreIAEA releases preliminary report on Fukushima nuclear accident
Last week the UN International Atomic Energy Agency released a preliminary report from its fact finding mission to Japan to…
Read MoreChalcogenide phase-change memory materials for high-speed, low-power data storage
Last week the University of California, San Diego announced that a group from its computer science department will be demonstrating…
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