Archive for September 2012
News from the glass and refractory worlds
• University of Sheffield researchers have shown that glass could be a better method for long-term storage, transport and disposal…
Read MoreJapan to end nuclear power by 2040; France plans to cut back
This is a bit of a surprise, and I have no idea how this will fully reverberate through the scientific…
Read MoreDon’t wait in line for coffee: How to know where the business opportunity is
There are two ways to guess what the future holds: Gaze into the crystal ball or find a guide who…
Read MoreNCSU, Eastman Chemical ink $10M materials research pact
Materials research is getting a nice shot in the arm with Eastman Chemical Co. and North Carolina State University reaching agreement…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we’re hearing: Morgan Thermal Ceramics offers manufacturing capability and engineering expertise for fired refractory shapes in metals market…
Read MoreACerS & Wiley publishing update of classic overview, ‘The Magic of Ceramics’
In the late 1990s, David W. Richerson (with assistance from across the spectrum of the individual and corporate members of…
Read MoreManage your career with ‘content assets,’ but don’t ‘swear’ by them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcMOLZWfbhY Publish or perish is not just for academics, it turns out. Your content strategy represents your net worth to…
Read MoreThree new ACerS books on glass-ceramics, ceramic composites and fracture
I was a student for enough years that this time of year brings on an imprinted urge to own some…
Read MoreNew paper addresses causes of shattering glass cookware; margin of safety described as ‘borderline’
[Image above] A reconstructed fractured soda lime silicate Pyrex bowl. Arrows outline crack paths. Credit: Photograph courtesy of G. Quinn.…
Read MoreBreakthrough in understanding piezoelectric mechanism in Pb-free ferroelectrics
Applying a poling field (Epol) creates a rhombohedral (R)/tetragonal (T) morphotropic phase boundary in a single phase grain of (Bi½Na½)TiO3-6%BaTiO3.…
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