Posts by Lisa McDonald
Ceramic and glass business news of the week for November 30, 2020
Piramal Glass on brink of $1 billion sale, Juwi begins work on 204 MW solar park in Greece, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for November 30, 2020.
Read MoreVideo: Listen to music privately without the headphones
Social distancing is at the top of everyone’s minds as we head into this holiday season. A new audio technology by Israeli company Noveto Systems takes this concept to heart by using “sound beaming” to send sound directly to your ears without the use of headphones.
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Waste concrete repurposed into public furniture, NASA decadal review, and other materials stories that may be of interest for November 25, 2020.
Read MorePorous volumetric ceramic burners increase oven energy efficiency
Though gas ovens are considered more energy efficient than electric ovens, they still face challenges with dissipation of heat into the environment. Porous volumetric ceramic burners are a combustion technology that may improve heat transfer in gas ovens, and researchers in Germany investigated the technology’s heat transfer mechanisms to better illuminate its potential.
Read MoreCeramic and glass business news of the week for November 23, 2020
National Research Council of Canada opens new advanced materials research facility, joint efforts for stable electricity networks in Africa, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for November 23, 2020.
Read MoreA new fabrication method takes root—researchers grow carbon nanotube forest of record length
Carbon nanotubes demonstrate much higher tensile strength than carbon fibers, but growing nanotubes in bulk while retaining this property is an obstacle that limits their commercial applications. Researchers in Japan developed a new fabrication method that could overcome the challenge of growing nanotubes in bulk.
Read MoreBetter bodies with biomaterials, plus more inside December 2020 ACerS Bulletin
The December 2020 issue of the ACerS Bulletin—featuring applications of ceramics and glass in the human body—is now available online. Plus—C&GM and ceramicSOURCE
Read MoreBioceramics Division presents first Global Young Bioceramicist Award
The Global Young Bioceramicist Award is presented by The American Ceramic Society’s Bioceramics Division. The award recognizes the outstanding young…
Read MoreVideo: LED wall, the future of movie backgrounds
Green- or blue-screen compositing is the typical technique used in the film industry to create different backgrounds for a scene. Yet this well-established technique comes with disadvantages, ones that can be overcome using a novel LED wall developed for the television series The Mandalorian.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
New family of quasiparticles, glass that combines organic and inorganic components, and other materials stories that may be of interest for November 18, 2020.
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