Posts by Lisa McDonald
Doing 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.
Read MoreVideo: Deep sea mining—the search for critical materials dives into dark waters
As the global batteries market expands rapidly in parallel with renewable energy technologies and electric vehicles, manufacturers are looking for new sources of critical materials. Deep sea mining is one possibility—but at what cost to the environment?
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Laser diode emits deep UV light, real-time dynamics of cement setting, and other materials stories that may be of interest for January 22, 2020.
Read MoreStrong and long-lasting, treated phosphate glass shows promise for bone-replacement therapies
Phosphate glass fibers show promise in bone-replacement therapies, but they are prone to premature fiber pull-out and breakage. Researchers in the United Kingdom and Egypt explored methods for stabilizing the fiber surface.
Read MoreMelting of graphene is simply sublime: Understanding the melting curve of carbon
Researchers have struggled to create an accurate phase diagram of carbon for over 100 years. Now, two researchers from Russia explored melting of graphite and graphene and confirmed some previous hypotheses—and revealed graphene “melting” is in fact sublimation.
Read MoreCeramic and glass business news of the week for January 20, 2020
New facility to research coal in West Virginia, NSL Analytical Services acquired by May River Capital, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for January 20, 2020.
Read MoreSetting the standard—ASTM Committee C28 Advanced Ceramics going strong in its 4th decade
With over 50 standards on test methods, practices, guides, terminology, and specification for advanced ceramics under its jurisdiction, Committee C28 is proud to hold its first meetings of the year in conjunction with ACerS in January 2020.
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