Archive for June 2012
News from the glass and refractory worlds
• Vidrala Group has announced that it has closed the first quarter of 2012 with a consolidated net profit of…
Read MoreACerS and NIST agreement continues 60 year ceramic phase diagrams program
Last week, ACerS executive director Charlie Spahr inked a new agreement with NIST to continue the 60-year collaboration between the…
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IBC Advanced Alloys signs nuclear fuel R&D agreement IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. has entered into a sponsored research agreement with…
Read MoreMaking entrepreneurship successful. 3rd Ceramic Leadership Summit track at ICC4
[flash https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/clstrack.flv mode=1 f={image=https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/clstrack.jpg}] Kathy Faber, president of the 4th International Congress on Ceramics, talks about the 3rd Ceramic Leadership…
Read MoreOther materials science stories that may be of interest
Here’s a selection of what we’re hearing. Corning launches ultra-slim flexible glass Corning Incorporated launched Corning Willow Glass, an ultra-slim…
Read MoreSkyrmions—magnetic bubbles that may be useful places to store data
Magnetic eddies in silicon manganese, so-called skyrmions, form a regular grid. Moving these skyrmions needs 100,000 times smaller currents than…
Read MoreBig Data getting big attention from NIST and mainstream press
Big Data is the subject of a NIST-NSF workshop next week, but dealing with massive data sets is an issue…
Read MoreARO report on materials with spin-mediated thermal properties and call for additional research toward thermoelectrics
Contributed by Pani Varanasi, Program Manager, Physical Properties of Materials, Materials Science Division, Army Research Office: Thermal transport in materials…
Read MoreData drives engineering of ceramics; workshop asks ‘how well?’
Steve Freiman opens a two-day workshop for about 30 participants to discuss the data needs and challenges facing the engineered…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing: Harper chosen by Allomet for advanced rotary furnace for unique metal powder processing Harper International,…
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