Archive for November 2014
Mercedes-Benz’s new concept car harvests sun with its paint and has faux warp drive
Mercedes-Benz’s newest conceptual vision, the G-code, is an equally impressive exercise in creative thinking about what cars can do, evoke, and look like.
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Corning Tech Center to train in Korea, ICG to take Bangkok in 2015, ceramic tile trends, and other ceramics and glass business news of the week for November 7, 2014.
Read More75th Conference on Glass Problems has no problems delivering on pre-meeting promise
The content-rich, technically oriented conference, organized by the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council and Alfred University, delivered—kicking off Monday at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in the heart of downtown Columbus.
Read MoreHanging tough: Rare ceramic goes amorphous for strength
New research into a rare form of silica, stishovite, shows that the metastable material gets tough by a unique mechanism—transitioning from a crystalline to amorphous structure.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
The White House announces a 3D printed ornament contest, molybdenum disulfide for hydrogen catalysis, glass deformation mystery solved, ultrablack materials set to space, and other materials stories that may be of interest for November 5, 2014.
Read MoreCompanies in these five states account for half of all business R&D performed in the US
New data from the National Science Foundation shows that the $239 billion of R&D performed by U.S. businesses is highly concentrated by state and metropolitan area.
Read MoreNIST infographic captures manufacturing by the numbers
NIST’s Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership put together a handy dandy little infographic to give you all the numbers you need to know about American manufacturing.
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics world
News from the glass and refractory ceramics world.
Read MoreOrganic, ecofriendly, and recyclable: Pine resin and alfalfa-based battery could have more than nine lives
Researchers at Sweden’s Uppsala University have developed an alternative to the lithium battery—an alfalfa and pine resin-based organic battery that can be recycled and recovered.
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