Archive for 2012
Friday fun video: Med on my mind, or what to do when jet skiing gets boring
Credit: ZAPATA; YouTube This is completely frivolous, I know, but it’s 80° today, which has me thinking vacationy thoughts. These…
Read MoreDOD looking proposals for next-gen nanostructured smart drug delivery materials
Viktoria Greanya is the senior manager for nanomaterials research for a part of DOD’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency that focuses on…
Read MoreAbout the A123 demise and bankruptcy: Tech failure or business failure?
The rise and fall of A123 Systems has been something of great interest to me and to ACerS, in no…
Read MoreACerS/NIST phase diagrams collection enters 80th year
Ideas that stand the test of time often have modest beginnings. The ACerS/NIST Phase Equilibria Diagram database is a case…
Read MoreVesuvius Research Center in Pittsburgh hosts student tour during the MS&T’12
Duane DeBastiani gave a presentation about Vesuvius and its technologies. Credit: Zhu; Vesuvius. Editor’s note: The student tour to a…
Read MoreScience, art or both? Winners of Cambridge University engineering department photography competition
[Image above] Zinc oxide grown on a nanoporous substrate. The exterior morphology gives the bump a tortoise shell look, but…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
[Image above] MTC reduced, reused, recycled and reorganized their way to an 8,000 square feet expansion of production capability without…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• PPG’s glass segment sales were $262 million for the third quarter 2012, down $11 million from the prior year.…
Read MoreAnisotropic, transparent fluoroapatite ceramics for high-power laser applications
[Image above] An Alfred University team led by Yiquan Wu is developing methods for synthesizing anisotropic, transparent, polycrystalline ceramics for…
Read MoreVideo: New nuclear fuel rod ‘jacket?’ EWI’s SiC joined-tube samples stable in MIT research reactor for six months
According to EWI researcher Edward Herderick, the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant presents a key question to…
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