Archive for February 2012
Other materials stories that may be of interest
Check ’em out: UGA discovery uses ‘fracture putty’ to repair broken bone in days Broken bones in humans and animals…
Read MoreSteve Jung: ‘Controlling the formation of calcium compounds when bioactive glass reacts in vivo’
Steve Jung made the above presentation at ACerS’ Glass and Optical Materials Division 2011 annual meeting and conference.
Read MoreTwo new Materials Marvels videos: ‘Thermoelectrics” and “Nanomaterials”
Credit: Ainissa Ramirez, Yale; YouTube. Science “popularizer” and Yale associate professor Ainissa Ramirez alerted us that she has added two…
Read MoreSilicate layer is key to low temperature bonding of silicon carbide
A method for bonding silicon carbide has been developed at the University of Glasgow. An online story in The Engineer…
Read MoreTowards MGI, DOE allocates $12M for software groups, ‘glue’ funding
Friday afternoon, Cyrus Wadia posted a notice on the blog of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy…
Read MoreNews on glass & refractory world
Joint venture partners Owens-Illinois Inc., Berli Jucker Public Company and Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Company have announced the opening of…
Read MoreCan a fish in the Amazon inspire ‘flexible’ ceramics?
An armorlike arapaima fish scale resists being fractured by a piranha tooth that is slowly pressed into it. In fact,…
Read More‘Shaping the Future of Ceramics’ is theme of international congress in Chicago this July
I really enjoy going to meetings. The big, conference kind, that is — not so much the day-to-day inhouse kind!…
Read MoreFlying machines and falling men
University of Pennsylvania researchers demonstrate swarming capability with a fleet of saucer-sized flying robots. Credit: TheDmel/GRASP, University Pennsylvania; YouTube. Two…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: DOE to launch new Energy Innovation Hub focused on advanced batteries and energy storage…
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