Archive for 2012
Elegant and simple—stretching during spinodal decomposition aligns porosity in glass
[Image above] Different steps of the deforming procedure: (A) initial glass block, (B) sawn glass plate, (C) and (D) stretched…
Read MoreGlass conference in Sicily to focus on energy, information; student scholarships available
The International Materials Institute for New Functionalities in Glass, in association with the Engineering Conferences International, is sponsoring a conference Jan.…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: Zircoa: A corporate model for “Veterans Opportunity to Work” legislation Recenctly, Zircoa Inc. of…
Read More“The Magic of Ceramics,” plus new books on glass ceramics, composites and Ceramic Transactions volumes ready for shipping
If you describe yourself as a ceramic engineer or ceramic scientist, you are willing to be different, and you probably…
Read MoreUS-based ceramics manufacturing organization AACCM celebrates 20th anniversary
The Association of American Ceramic Component Manufacturers was established 20 years ago to create unity among ceramic manufacturing companies located…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• Anchor Glass Containers, part of Ardagh Group, is to receive 6.6 megawatts in low-cost electricity, which will allow the…
Read MoreScenes (pt. 3) from the ACerS Annual Meeting and MS&T’12
Here is my last batch of photos from Pittsburgh last week. We will be uploading more pictures on the ACerS…
Read More$20M in public-private advanced manufacturing grants announced
Readers may recall that the Obama administration’s Material Genome Initiative is actually just a piece of the broader Advanced Manufacturing…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Check ’em out: Kyocera introduces new milling cutters for CNC machining featuring inserts with proprietary Megacoat Nano technology Kyocera Industrial…
Read MoreMeaningful hand-waving: Purdue group demos design tool that tracks hand motions to create shapes
Purdue doctoral student, Vinayak, demonstrates Handy-Potter to create a three-dimensional object. He is represented by a stick figure in the…
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