Archive for March 2015
Apple’s gold made stronger with ceramics
The gold in Apple’s watch is far from pure: The alloy is actually one-quarter ceramic reinforcement that makes the gold “twice as hard,” more scratch resistant, and less dense.
Read MoreFluid choreography: Simple food coloring droplets do complex dance between science and beauty
Stanford University researchers have solved the science behind an incredible yet simple phenomenon—food coloring droplets, when plopped onto a clean glass slide, move and dance as if they’re alive.
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Carbo shuttering proppant factory, Japan Display confirms LCD plant, Alcoa to acquire RTI International, and more ceramics and glass business news of the week for March 13, 2015.
Read MoreInfrared LEDs and retro-reflective materials make for invisibility glasses that give facial recognition the slip
For those who want to give cameras and facial recognition technology the slip, anti-virus software company AVG has developed a pair of invisibility glasses designed to protect your visual identity online.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Ceramic matrix composites take on jet engine, high-temperature superconductivity advances, and other materials stories that may be of interest for March 11, 2015.
Read MoreI’m blue da ba dee: Striped mollusks hide unique photonic structures that may inspire future displays
MIT researchers recently discovered that the shells of blue-rayed limpets—a fingernail-sized mollusk—contain unique biological photonic structures that are the first known to be made from inorganic, mineralized structures.
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics world
News from the glass and refractory ceramics world.
Read MoreVolcanic lightning zaps ash into glass
New research from an international team of scientists suggests that natural glass spheres are born during another natural phenomenon—volcanic lightning.
Read MoreNIST awards $26 million to American manufacturing centers
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently reaffirmed its commitment to small- and mid-sized manufacturers through the awarding of cooperative agreements to 10 nonprofit organizations and universities who oversee Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers.
Read MoreVoxel8 introduces the world’s first 3-D electronics printer
Jennifer Lewis’s Harvard-based research group is the first to develop and market a 3-D printer that can incorporate conductive inks and plastics into 3-D printed electronics through their spinoff company, Voxel8.
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