Archive for October 2014
Ceramics and glass business news of the week
GE’s new ceramic matrix composite factory opens, Du-Co does mullite, PPG designing jet windshields, Morgan offers sapphire, US Silica named to Forbes list, and more ceramics and glass business news of the week for October 24, 2014.
Read MoreOne degree of Nobel separation (and no, it has nothing to do with Kevin Bacon)
Fun fact: Shuji Nakamura—who along with fellow winners Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes—has ties to ACerS.
Read MoreGotta keep ‘em separated: Garnet ceramics find calling as Li-ion battery bouncers
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Lab say that ceramics can improve the batteries of tomorrow. Testing of a garnet ceramic material LLZO suggests that it might be the perfect protector for lithium anodes in batteries that last longer and do more.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Superfast LEDs, ultrafast charging batteries, lead-free glass inks, dissolvable silicon, and other materials stories that may be of interest for October 22, 2014.
Read MorePrinted ceramics meet carbon fibers in the truest of wearable tech
SCOTT Sports’ ceramic-printed, carbon fiber bikewear, designed to keep skin safe from road rash, is also—added bonus—quite stylish.
Read MoreSplitting water to bottle the sun: Storing solar energy from perovskite-powered photolysis
By combining a pair of perovskite solar cells with an electrolyzer, a team of researchers at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne has figured out how to split hydrogen from water and store it using solely the sun’s energy.
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics world
News from the glass and refractory ceramics world.
Read MoreWorld’s first 3D-printed car takes successful test spin
Local Motors, with help from Cincinnati Incorporated, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and AMT – The Association for Manufacturing Technology, unveiled the world’s first 3D-printed car at September’s International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago.
Read MoreYour last dose of MS&T14: Material Advantage Mug Drop and Disc Golf Contests—with video
They came to win, we came to cover the fun. Photos and videos from the 2014 Material Advantage Mug Drop and Ceramic Disc Golf Contests, organized by Keramos.
Read MoreData mining for materials made easier? Talk about 21st century gold
NSF is banking on faster materials development through data mining with a $250,000 award to computer science professor Junzhou Huang to help design “scalable algorithms and a computational framework that can search unprecedented volumes of data detailing the complete set of genes present in numerous materials.”
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