Archive for April 2012
Hot stuff: Measuring thermophysical properties at very high temperatures
There is some pretty interesting work underway on ceramic materials for ultra-high temperature applications. Service temperatures of more than 1,500°C…
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Check ’em out: Thermodynamic glass transition in a spin glass without time-reversal symmetry (PNAS) Spin glasses are a longstanding model…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory worlds
* Libbey Glass, a glassware manufacturer, has announced that for the quarter-ended Dec. 31, 2011, sales were $214.8 million, compared…
Read MoreBBC to broadcast ‘Ceramics: How They Work’
I don’t have access to BBC channels (and I am unclear how much of the network’s programming is available online…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
This is what we are hearing: Corning buys Discovery Labware for $730M Corning Inc., an American manufacturer of glass, ceramics…
Read MoreWho is going to do the work? Workforce development for ceramic and glass industries
Workforce development is more than developing undergraduate programs. Three sessions at ICC4 will address the global, diversity and career development…
Read MoreVideo of the week: Shear delight — CWRU students win engineering prize with pothole stuffer
Credit: Noah Gostout; YouTube For those of us living in the snow-prone regions of the US, potholes are a fact…
Read MoreSolar cement — Solar-driven electrolysis for making lime and no CO2 emission
Conventional thermal decomposition of calcium carbonate for cement-making generates almost as much CO2 as lime. Solar-driven electrolysis of calcium carbonate…
Read MoreLarge deposit of rare earth neodymium discovered in Brazil
A large, new deposit of neodymium has been discovered in the Brazilian state, Bahia. A story on Mining.com reports that…
Read MoreRutgers grad students demonstrate rapid ceramic product inspection technique
A hat tip to Quality Magazine on this. As part of their PhD thesis work, Steve Bottiglieri and Andrew Portune, graduate students at Rutgers,…
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