Archive for 2012
Army awards SBIR to use NDE to reduce missile dome fabrication costs
The business end of a missile is not the exploding part. Rather, it’s the guidance system that gets the missile…
Read MoreSmile: Nanocrystals in glass–ceramic dentures provide strength, natural appearance
[Image above] Making glass-ceramics at Jena University. Credit: Jan-Peter Kasper, FSU. James Bond fans know well the villain Jaws, a…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Check ’em out: High-speed CMOS sensors provide better images CMOS image sensors have long been the solution of choice for…
Read MoreGiving an order to hybrid materials
A unique method for processing ZnO nanowires and polythiophenes results in a hybrid structure with nanometer scale ordering and a…
Read MoreTechnical ceramics and art ceramics—only a brain apart
Is this a familiar experience? You are at a social gathering and somebody asks what you do for a living.…
Read MoreLED ceiling virtually recreates clouds drifting across the sky
If rainy days and Mondays get you down, a remedy is now available thanks to researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute…
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