Archive for 2012
Popular Mechanics awards breakthrough innovators and products
Cubify, a manufacturer of “affordable” desktop 3D printers, was named one of Popular Mechanics magazine’s Breakthrough Product Awards for 2012.…
Read MoreMoskowitz speaks on Ceradyne–3M deal, his future with 3M and his Distinguished Life Member award
Joel Moskowitz, founder and CEO of the Ceradyne Inc., is well respected as a successful entrepreneur and someone with great…
Read MoreNSF to fund $12M for first ‘designing materials’ DMREF awards in support of MGI
In support of the federal Materials Genome Initiative, the NSF has just announced the first projects to receive funding awards…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing: Morgan Ceramics promotes efficiencies in Asia’s power sector through next-gen thermal insulation solutions and precision-engineering…
Read MoreScenes (pt. 2) from the ACerS Annual Meeting and MS&T’12
There were several pre-MS&T’12 events over the weekend before the mega-meeting’s official reception Sunday night, including the start of The…
Read MoreScenes 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…
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