Archive for October 2012
Scenes from the 114th ACerS Annual Meeting and MS&T’12 in Pittsburgh
Peter and I are in Pittsburgh, Pa., along with about 3,000 materials scientists, engineers, vendors and students for MS&T’12 and…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
We are at MS&T this week and a little busier than usual. We hope to bring back lots of news…
Read MoreA tale of two nitrides: Corrosion and damage protection coatings for tool steels
One of the things I like about ceramic materials is the way they work in concert with other materials. Coatings…
Read MoreNSF funding could make ceramic-based disease-monitoring breathalyzers a reality
Perena Gouma‘s dream of developing breathalyzers for noninvasive health monitoring is on the path to becoming reality thanks to an…
Read MoreThe science of ‘ings’: ARO seeking proposals to accelerate manufacturing process science
From the Army Research Office, Materials Science Division: A major opportunity to enable efficient manufacturing of advanced materials lies in…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory worlds
• Japanese electronics company Hitachi has unveiled slivers of glass that can store digital information for millions of years. The company…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: Tam Ceramics expands its custom materials processing and recycling program Tam Ceramics recently announced…
Read MoreSilicon oxides enable advances in digital memory storage at Rice U. and Hitachi
Two separate but recent stories underline the versatility of silicon oxides and involve two very different digital memory applications. The…
Read MorePatent Office releases America Invents Act Roadshow highlights
The America Invents Act that overhaul United States patent law was the topic of a series of Roadshow meetings the…
Read MoreNew alkali halide scintillator single crystals for better homeland security, medical diagnosis
By the time you read this, I will have been to Europe and back on an airplane. I will have…
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