Posts by Lisa McDonald
Ceramic and glass business news of the week for February 3, 2020
Ghani Glass doubles production capacity, RHI Magnesita acquires Missouri Refractories Co, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for February 3, 2020.
Read MoreFerroelectric focus at the Electronic Materials and Applications Conference
The 11th annual Electronic Materials and Applications Conference (EMA 2020) took place in Orlando on Jan. 22–24, 2020. Ferroelectricity was a big topic of discussion this year, in addition to various properties of complex oxides.
Read MoreBinding ‘cheep’ fertilizer: Ceramics harden chicken waste for easier transport
Chicken litter is a good fertilizer due to a composition rich in nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus. However, transporting the residue is difficult because it crumbles. Researchers from Brazil investigate using ceramic additives to increase waste hardness for easier transport.
Read MoreVideo: Starlink strife and a possible four-satellite solution
With just under 200 of 12,000 satellites launched, SpaceX’s planned Starlink constellation is already causing major complications for astronomers. Global internet coverage could theoretically be achieved with only four satellites, and a new paper proposes a way to make such a constellation economically feasible.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
A megalibrary of nanoparticles, model for storing nuclear waste incomplete, and other materials stories that may be of interest for January 29, 2020.
Read MoreStop bleeding without adhering—carbon nanofiber coating offers superior bandage material
Materials to stop bleeding should ideally minimize blood loss while not sticking to the wound. Researchers from ETH Zurich and the National University of Singapore discovered coating gauze with a mix of silicone and carbon nanofibers achieves both objectives.
Read MoreDoing double duty in the circular economy—creating foam glass from waste materials
Porous ceramics hold great promise as value-added products for waste materials because they can use ceramic and glass powders as starting materials. Two recent papers published in a special issue of ACT explore this idea by creating foam glass from waste.
Read MoreCeramic and glass business news of the week for January 27, 2020
New additive manufacturing center in Sweden, funding available for energy technology research, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for January 27, 2020.
Read MoreModeling murder—Weibull statistics bring new insights to violent mortality rates of Roman emperors
Weibull distribution is widely used in reliability engineering to mathematically describe time-to-failure of materials. A recent paper shows this distribution describes another type of “failure” remarkably well—time-to-violent-death of Roman emperors.
Read MoreGuided self-assembly: Templating gives control over eutectic material structure
Eutectic materials self-assemble to form a cohesive structure, but only a limited set of structures emerge. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the University of Michigan found they could achieve new microstructures through templating.
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