Archive for 2011
Ceramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing (some information based on news releases): Sandia National Labs presents H.C. Starck with supplier award…
Read MoreWith ‘Materials Project,’ DOE and MIT launch new materials properties search engine
The details on this are a little skimpy at this point, however the DOE caught my attention this afternoon when…
Read More‘Pin art’ gadgetry used to make curvy glass sheets
The southern elevation of architect Frank Gehry’s design for the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas, Nev.,…
Read MoreEasy catch: Ion exchange traps radioisotopes in titanate-based nanofibers
Professor Zhu of Queensland University of Technology shows jars of sodium titanate nanofibers and nanotubes that pull radioactive cesium and…
Read MoreNew graphene ‘hub’ and electronics discovery create excitement in UK
Noble laureates Novoselov and Geim, left, along with Nancy Rothwell, president and vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester, meet with UK…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Check ’em out: Fisher-Barton opens new materials research lab The Fisher-Barton Group has opened a new $2-million, state-of-the-art materials research…
Read MoreOptimizing YBCO superconductor magnet design
Snapshot of 3D temperature distribution in YBCO tape during quench show a very high local temperature gradient. A multiscale modeling…
Read MoreOn Germany’s approach to engineering, science and stability
A story from the Guardian (UK) written by John Kampfer has some interesting thoughts about why Germany now seems less…
Read MoreVideo of the week: Upside-down ‘levitation’ of superconducting puck
Credit: Association of Science and Technology Centers; YouTube The phenomenon of superconductivity was discovered in 1911. Fifty years of physics…
Read MoreMaterials Football Game of the Week: Illinois at Penn State
The Game University of Illinois at Pennsylvania State University Oct. 29, 3:30 p.m., ET I went to the University of…
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