Archive for 2011
A call to action: Establishing performance metrics for supercapacitors
Ragone plots are useful for comparing electrochemical energy storage devices. The energy and power densities in this plot are weight-based.…
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Check ’em out: Ultralight metallic microlattices A team of researchers from UC Irvine, HRL Laboratories and the California Institute of…
Read MoreVideo of the week: 30 coffee cups in 30 days by additive manufacturing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZU7O1BHfyo This video shows the 3D printing process used to fabricate ceramic espresso coffee cups designed by Bernat Cuní. Credit:…
Read MoreThe Energy Race: Will federal budget woes affect progress?
Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu, was in Colorado last week, and after months of reeling from the Solyndra debacle, was…
Read MoreVideo: ‘Oenodynamics’—the fluid dynamics of wine swirling
The fluid dynamics of wine swirling—orbital shaking—could extend to mixing and oxygenation in bioreactors for biopharmaceuticals manufacture. Credit: Farhat, et…
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Access chapter 1 from 71st Conference on Glass Problems: CESP, Volume 32
Read MoreWith low-temp SOFC gains like this . . . why stop now?
We’ve all heard stories of college kids who drop out even though they are falling short of graduation by one…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing (some information from news releases): Superior safety for next gen high-temperature reactor: China receives first…
Read MoreOn thinking
Most of us think for a living. Our outputs—experiments, talks, papers, etc.—are evidence of our having thought productively. Do you…
Read MoreSolid freeform fabrication of one-piece investment casting molds for airfoils
Much of the research in materials science journals focuses on nanostuff, atomic resolution characterization and other gee-whiz science, so it’s…
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