Posts by Lisa McDonald
Electronics Division names best student posters and presentations from EMA 2020
The Electronics Division presented awards for outstanding student work during the January 2020 Conference on Electronic Materials and Applications in…
Read MoreGOMD offers registration grants for students and postdocs! Apply by February 28
The ACerS Glass & Optical Materials Division is pleased to provide registration grants of $280 each for selected students to attend the division’s annual…
Read MoreCeramic and glass business news of the week for February 10, 2020
Schott and WaveOptics enter into strategic supply partnership, ASTM International developing 3D printing standard, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for February 10, 2020.
Read MoreSeveral ‘firsts’ at the 44th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites
The International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC 2020) took place January 26–31 in Daytona Beach, Fla. Over 1,000 people attended, with 50% coming from outside the United States.
Read MoreThe best of both worlds—ferroelectric crystals exhibit both high transparency and piezoelectricity
Previous attempts to increase transparency of ferroelectric crystals have decreased piezoelectricity. An international team of scientists led by The Pennsylvania State University and Xi’an Jiaotong University now shows that selective engineering of domain walls can improve both properties.
Read MoreA golden time for updates—ACerS journal news and tips for February 2020
As we enter the second month of this year, find out the latest ACerS journals news and tips for February 2020!
Read MoreVideo: Bottle houses—another way to reuse glass
Many glass recycling initiatives focus on crushing the original glass product and turning it into something else. However, you do not need to necessarily crush glass to reuse it, as numerous “bottle houses” around the world show. Take a look at a few of the famous ones.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Graphene won’t crack under pressure, nanoparticle chomps away plaques, and other materials stories that may be of interest for February 5, 2020.
Read MoreBacteria bind bricks to create sustainable living building material
Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder designed a living building material cemented together with cyanobacteria-secreted calcium carbonate—offering possibilities for construction in resource-limited settings.
Read MoreFaster than a speeding bullet: A review on fiber reinforced UHTCMCs for hypersonic aircraft and more
Ultra-high temperature ceramic matrix composites could be used on some of the hottest portions of hypersonic aircraft if their brittleness is reduced. Research on using fibers to reinforce these materials increased greatly in the past decade, and a recent review article in an ACerS journal discusses the progress and challenges in this field.
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