Archive for 2014
Student-designed catalytic converter “greens” up your lawnmower for little green
A group of students from the University of California, Riverside is hoping to make yard work more eco-friendly with the development of a simple add-on contraption that can remove 93 percent of pollutants from gas lawnmower exhaust.
Read MoreBubble wrap for more than packing and popping: Bubbles as mobile, self-contained laboratories
George M. Whitesides and his team at Harvard have developed a potential new healthcare tool that is incredibly simple, cheap, and functional—bubble wrap as mobile laboratory storage vials.
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics world
News from the glass and refractory ceramics world
Read MoreNew ‘sensing skin’ provides early warning for cracks in concrete
It’s not the Sixth Sense, Spidey sense, or even common sense, but a new “sensing skin” technology could change the way we’re able to respond to critical (and dangerous) cracks in concrete.
Read MoreMaking glass from food waste—and more great stories—in the August ACerS Bulletin, now online
The August issue of the ACerS Bulletin—featuring stories about making glass from food waste, aluminum nitride powder synthesis, processing maps for flash sintering, the annual raw minerals report, and more—is now online.
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Ceramics and glass business news of the week for July 18, 2014.
Read MoreVideo: Quality control gone wild: Schott blasts and pummels its fire-rated glass ceramics to ensure your safety
Schott’s line of fire-rated glass ceramics, Pyran Platinum, are put through an intense battery of tests to ensure that the material holds up to extremely hot temperatures and rapid temperature changes—all to ensure your safety in a burning building.
Read MorePeace, love, and electrospinning?
Peace, love, and electrospinning? San Francisco, a city known for its infamous Summer of Love, will play host to Electrospin 2014, August 4–7.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Other materials stories that may be of interest for July 16, 2014.
Read MoreNew manufacturing method paves the way for production of ‘soft machines,’ robots
Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new manufacturing technique that will help make the commercial production of machines made of elastic materials and liquid metals more practical.
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