Posts by Lisa McDonald
Ceramic and glass business news of the week for September 7, 2020
RPM acquires leading abrasives manufacturer, TRI academic scholarships for full-time students, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for September 7, 2020.
Read MoreEngineered to perfection: The science of chocolate and designing a better chocolate chip
Although chocolate is a simple pleasure for many people around the world, the science behind chocolate as a food and as a material is deliciously complex. Now an industrial designer has re-engineered the chocolate chip to maximize taste and texture, giving it optimal surface area with angular features.
Read MoreVideo: Brew coffee sustainably using ceramic and glass filters
Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world, yet the environmental impacts of the drink can be significant. Metal and cloth are the main alternatives to paper for creating reusable filters—could ceramic and glass materials play a role in sustainability as well?
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Fruit peel turns old batteries new, electronic skin reacts to pain, and other materials stories that may be of interest for September 2, 2020.
Read MoreBio-inspired ceramic–metal composite stands its ground against cutting tools
A team of researchers in the U.K. and Germany developed a ceramic–metal composite that, despite being just 15% as dense as steel, is nearly uncuttable. The material harnesses the power of vibration to direct cutting tools’ destructive energy back upon themselves, wearing the tools down before they can inflict serious damage on the material.
Read MoreCeramic 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.
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