Posts by Lisa McDonald
Ceramic and glass business news of the week for August 31, 2020
Saskatchewan to create Canada’s first rare earth processing facility, American Concrete Institute opens annual request for concrete research proposals, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for August 31, 2020.
Read MoreI th‘ink’ we have a solution: Researchers explain mechanism behind uniform deposition of 2D materials for printed electronics
In 2017, an international team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge found a certain alcohol-based solvent allowed uniform deposition of inks containing 2D materials—a result important to advancing printed electronics. Now, the team has proposed a mechanism to explain their finding.
Read MoreVideo: Glass-walled restrooms open to the public in Japan
Toilets are likely one of the last technologies people associate with innovation, but creating high-tech toilets is big business in Japan. And innovating the bathroom experience is not just limited to personal and private settings—the new Tokyo Toilet project looks to dispel perceptions that public toilets are dark, dirty, and smelly.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Transparent solar panels hit record efficiency, long-range and high-power wireless electricity, and other materials stories that may be of interest for August 26, 2020.
Read MoreAchieve dynamic control of light—liquid crystals offer way to reconfigure optical properties of metalenses
Metalenses are an emerging technology for controlling light that could someday replace traditional lenses. However, they generally lack dynamic control over their optical properties and are limited to passive optical applications. Researchers from the United States and Italy investigated infiltrating metalenses with liquid crystals to allow for dynamic control.
Read MoreCeramic and glass business news of the week for August 24, 2020
Pilkington launches online ‘glass-opedia,’ first floating PV plant commissioned in Russia, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for August 24, 2020.
Read MoreAn ‘udder’ way to make money: Sorbent-based purification may make biogas production economically feasible for farmers
Farmers are in the midst of an economic crisis. Production of methane fuel from biogas, a natural byproduct of organic wastes, may be a way to turn a profit, but the current processing methods are too expensive for small farmers. Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed a composite sorbent that may make the production process economically feasible.
Read MoreSingle-step synthesis of refractory ceramics, plus more inside September 2020 ACerS Bulletin
The September 2020 issue of the ACerS Bulletin—featuring single-step synthesis of refractory ceramics—is now available online. Plus—Awards and C&GM
Read MoreVideo: Tracking the moon with laser beams
For more than 50 years, the Apollo-era Laser Ranging Retroreflector experiment helped scientists track the moon’s orbit and distance from Earth. The efficiency of the moon-based reflectors decreased over time, though, so NASA scientists looked to reflect light from a spacecraft-based reflector instead—a feat they recently achieved for the first time.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Ion-pump photovoltaics, eggshell-based surgical material for skull injuries, and other materials stories that may be of interest for August 19, 2020.
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