Archive for 2012
News on glass & refractory world
Joint venture partners Owens-Illinois Inc., Berli Jucker Public Company and Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage Company have announced the opening of…
Read MoreCan a fish in the Amazon inspire ‘flexible’ ceramics?
An armorlike arapaima fish scale resists being fractured by a piranha tooth that is slowly pressed into it. In fact,…
Read More‘Shaping the Future of Ceramics’ is theme of international congress in Chicago this July
I really enjoy going to meetings. The big, conference kind, that is — not so much the day-to-day inhouse kind!…
Read MoreFlying machines and falling men
University of Pennsylvania researchers demonstrate swarming capability with a fleet of saucer-sized flying robots. Credit: TheDmel/GRASP, University Pennsylvania; YouTube. Two…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: DOE to launch new Energy Innovation Hub focused on advanced batteries and energy storage…
Read MoreAlta Devices reports NREL verification of 23.5% efficiency for counter-intuitive solar panel
The steady march to grid parity for solar energy devices continues: A Santa Clara, Calif., maker of gallium arsenide photovoltaic…
Read MoreNavy looks to use $6M to lure ideas for ‘bottom up’ building of carbon-based nanoelectronics
The Office of Naval Research has announced that it is interested in encouraging “research and innovation in bottom-up chemical synthesis…
Read MoreVO2 foils eyed for mass production for thermochromic window applications
The notion of making functional and flexible ceramic foils is fascinating, but a little counterintuitive, isn’t it? Thus, I am…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Check ‘ em out: On relaxations and aging of various glasses Slow relaxation occurs in many physical and biological systems.…
Read MoreMaking ferroelectric nanorocks with an atomic force microscope hammer
Jim O’Neil, a fellow graduate student a good while ago, liked to say, “Ceramic engineering is all about making big…
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