Archive for 2011
Going pro: Ceramist De Guire joins blog, ACerS communications staff
On behalf of The American Ceramic Society, I am very pleased to officially announce that Eileen De Guire is now…
Read MoreFractured plans: After $10M expenditure, tempering problems lead to abandonment of 1 World Trade Center’s prism glass façade
Although it seems that the decision actually was made several weeks ago, news is just now starting to bubble up…
Read MoreNEW Global Young Investigators Forum at ICACC’12
TAMU group’s ultrathin polymer–clay coating creates flexible, transparent gas barrier
It’s easy to imagine that the makers of food products have a wish list for packaging that, besides the obvious…
Read MoreMaterials stories that may also be of interest
Check ’em out: Princeton engineers make breakthrough in ultrasensitive Raman-based sensor Princeton researchers have invented an extremely sensitive sensor that…
Read MoreAlfred U.’s Inamori Kyocera Museum of Fine Ceramics to be dedicated May 10
Recently I’ve covered a few stories related to exhibitions on technical ceramics (e.g., here and here), but these have been…
Read MoreRevolution in wound care? Inexpensive, easy-to-use cotton candy-like glass fibers appear to speed healing in initial venous stasis wound trial
[Image above] When applied to venous stasis wounds, the borate glass nanofibers developed at Missouri S&T and produced by Mo-Sci…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news from this week
Union Process manufactures dry grinding attritor for ceramics Union Process Inc., known globally as a manufacturer of size reduction and…
Read MoreNIST news on glass transition, double graphene layers, magnet shape effects, new manufacturing blog and favored PV technologies
NIST’s latest Tech Beat has many great stories of interest to readers interested in materials science: Understanding how glasses ‘relax’…
Read MoreSuper-small erasable SketchSET transistor, ‘artificial atom’ could lead to super-big payoff
Good news, Moore’s Law: You are still not extinct. A group of researchers recently announced the development of a single-electron…
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