Archive for April 2013
News from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• Allied Glass Containers Ltd has recently successfully completed a major investment program at its Knottingley site, which involved a…
Read MorePhilips claims world record for energy-efficient lighting, doubling fluorescents’ lumens/watt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4QWdd6_wVs Royal Philips Electronics has been clawing its way to the top of the LED market and last week the…
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Onyx: A brand new colorful source of energy Onyx Solar has rolled out a complete new full range of colored…
Read MoreCeram building first commercial-scale flash sintering kiln?
[Image above] Credit: Marco Cologna & Rishi Raj, University of Colorado. Words such as “novel” and “revolutionary” get thrown around…
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[Image above] Roll-to-roll coating of electrodes at Fraunhofer IWS: The scientists now have optimized the design of anode and cathode…
Read MoreE-glass fiberglass flywheels for low cost energy storage
E-glass—already a workhorse reinforcement for fiberglass composites used for everything from shower doors to printed circuit board platforms to boats…
Read MoreStudents visit Washington, D.C., for Congressional Visits Day
U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Erin Donohue at MA’s “Congressional Visits Day” last week. Donohue is a graduate student at the University…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• Aruvian Research presents analysis of Asahi Glass Co. A complete and comprehensive analysis of Asahi Glass Company includes an…
Read MoreFriday funny—A mixed up miller and a bawling employer?
I found this cartoon while poking through our archives, and it made me chuckle. Perhaps you will, too! It was…
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Interdisciplinary Department of Materials Science and Engineering established The formation of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Texas…
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