Archive for November 2012
From icy water to steam via SiO2/Au nanoshells and carbon nanoparticles
Researchers create solar steam using nanoparticles at Rice University. Credit: Rice University; YouTube From Futurity.org: New technology that uses nanoparticles…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: PPG fiber glass joint venture starts fourth furnace in Kunshan, China PPG Industries announced…
Read MoreGood holiday reading: Wired’s ‘Glass Works: How Corning created the ultrathin, ultrastrong material of the future’
[Image above] Gorilla Glass bend test. Credit: Corning Inc. I meant to write a post about this several weeks…
Read MorePerovskite oxides: Group demonstrates technique for engineering ‘perfect’ heterointerfaces
[Image above] Schematic of the structure of a typical lanthanum aluminate-strontium titanate interface, left, and the abrupt, sharp interface obtained…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
In the spirit of the Thankgiving Day feast, we offer a wide sampling of interesting and perhaps unexpected stories to…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• A new way to make glass has been discovered by a collaboration of researchers at the Universities of Düsseldorf…
Read MoreEdge chipping—technologically relevant in prehistory and in modern times
[Image above] A sampling of banded ironstone spear points (except (A) and (C), which are black chert). They were made…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Keeping a ‘heat work’ check on technical ceramics processes British’s Mantec Technical Ceramics, owner of the Bullers brand, has introduced high…
Read MoreMaking a better invisibility cloak
[Image above] Graduate student, Nathan Landry, seen holding his invisibility cloak made of fiberglass and copper strips. Credit: Duke University.…
Read More‘Cloning’ could make structurally pure nanotubes for nanoelectronics
[Image above] In this computer model, small, pre-selected nanotube “seeds” (yellow) are grown to long nanotubes of the same twist…
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