Archive for 2012
Making entrepreneurship successful. 3rd Ceramic Leadership Summit track at ICC4
[flash https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/clstrack.flv mode=1 f={image=https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/clstrack.jpg}] Kathy Faber, president of the 4th International Congress on Ceramics, talks about the 3rd Ceramic Leadership…
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Here’s a selection of what we’re hearing. Corning launches ultra-slim flexible glass Corning Incorporated launched Corning Willow Glass, an ultra-slim…
Read MoreSkyrmions—magnetic bubbles that may be useful places to store data
Magnetic eddies in silicon manganese, so-called skyrmions, form a regular grid. Moving these skyrmions needs 100,000 times smaller currents than…
Read MoreBig Data getting big attention from NIST and mainstream press
Big Data is the subject of a NIST-NSF workshop next week, but dealing with massive data sets is an issue…
Read MoreARO report on materials with spin-mediated thermal properties and call for additional research toward thermoelectrics
Contributed by Pani Varanasi, Program Manager, Physical Properties of Materials, Materials Science Division, Army Research Office: Thermal transport in materials…
Read MoreData drives engineering of ceramics; workshop asks ‘how well?’
Steve Freiman opens a two-day workshop for about 30 participants to discuss the data needs and challenges facing the engineered…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing: Harper chosen by Allomet for advanced rotary furnace for unique metal powder processing Harper International,…
Read More2012 Annual Election
Attention ACerS Members: The annual election for Society Leaders is underway. Review the candidate statements, then vote online by July 6th. You must be logged in to access the online ballot.
Read MoreSandia Lab researcher develops materials method that allows temperature-stable ceramic-based circuits
Sandia National Laboratories materials science researcher Steve Dai has come up with a unique approach to creating materials whose properties…
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This “trigonal bipyramidal” crystalline structure that forms the basis of Oregon State University‘s “cool blue” pigment (see below). Credit: OSU.…
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