Archive for 2013
Covaron gains $300,000 in seed-stage funding for thermosetting ceramics tech
Credit: Cameron Smith; YouTube A unique Michigan-based startup company that is attempting to leverage a proprietary method of what it…
Read MoreA changing of the guard at ACerS—Peter retires, Jim signs on
There’s a new pen in town! For the last five years, ACerS Director of Communications Peter Wray has been the…
Read MoreCeramic matrix composites make inroads in aerospace
[Image above] Oxide CMC exhaust ground test demonstrator consists of a 1.60-m diameter nozzle and 1.14-m diameter × 2.34-m conical…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
How graphene and friends could harness the Sun’s energy University of Manchester and National University of Singapore researchers have shown…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• At meeting on May 3, the supervisory board of RHI AG approved a concept presented by the management board…
Read MoreGSK drops ball with puzzling US release of Sensodyne ‘Repair & Protect’ sans 45S5 glass
[Image above] Looking for innovative NovaMin/Bioglass active ingredient in Sensodyne Repair & Protect? US consumers will not find it in…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Morgan Advanced Materials highlights fire protection, wear and chemical corrosion resistant materials for offshore oil & gas applications at OTC…
Read MoreBistable graphene transistor with BN barrier developed
[Image above] Schematic of tunnelling transistor based on vertical graphene heterostructures. Tunnelling current between two graphene layers can be…
Read MoreTwo-dimensional MXene carbides pack four times more lithium
[Image above] Hydroxyl terminated MXene Ti3C2 with monolayers of hydrazine molecules between the MXene layers. Credit: Vadym Mochalin, Drexel University.…
Read MorePoint Source Power leverages ‘Votosynthesis’ to bring down scale of SOFCs
[Image above] Credit: Point Source Power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erFyBi4Z5Sw If you read this blog often, you may notice a few similarities between…
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