Posts by Lisa McDonald
Structural Clay Products Division meets in North Canton, Ohio
More than 80 people—mostly brick manufacturers and industry suppliers—attended the May 2016 ACerS Structural Clay Products Division meeting and tour of The Belden Brick Company.
Read MoreKiller silicon nitride: Bioceramic slaughters bacteria, could now help fight gum disease
According to the American Chemical Society, silicon nitride’s super antibacterial abilities may soon bring the material into your mouth to build better dental implants and help fight gum disease.
Read MoreShattering expectations: Will the Apple iPhone 8 go all-glass next year?
One of the most reliable Apple trend analysts, KGI analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, predicts that next year’s iPhone iteration will say sayonara to its metal casing—and opt for all-glass instead.
Read MoreBringing the bounce: Unusual chemical structure gives new metallic glass material its elasticity
Engineers at the University of Southern California, University of California, San Diego, and the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.) created a new metallic glass material with an unusual chemical structure that makes it incredibly hard and yet elastic.
Read MoreVideo: Small and soft (but mighty) self-propelling motors aid in pollution cleanup
Researchers at the Research Institute of Materials Science, South China University of Technology (Guangdong, China) are developing a different kind of motor—one that’s not fossil fuel-reliant and can actually help clean up pollution, not contribute to it.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Ferroelectric nanowires make personal cooling units, 3-D-printed foams outperform other materials, origin of earth’s oldest zircon crystals, and more materials stories that may be of interest for May 4, 2016.
Read MoreLight-powered 3-D printing technique creates new terahertz lens for better security imaging
Engineers at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering (Evanston, Ill.) are working on a new lens that could be used for biomedical research and security imaging: a terhertz lens created by a light-powered 3-D printer.
Read MoreVisualizing atoms at grain boundaries: Atom probe tomography gets into oxides
Researchers at Colorado School of Mines and the University of Florida are well on their way to solving grain boundaries’ secrets—the team recently achieved unprecedented atom-by-atom visualization of the chemical composition of grain boundaries.
Read MoreSafety, strategy, and selling—all part of ‘Ceramic and Glass Power Week 2016’
Driven by Ceramics Expo, our industry seized the opportunity to build this into a “power week.”
Read MoreLive from Ceramics Expo 2016—Photos from day 3 in Cleveland, Ohio
That’s a wrap on Ceramics Expo 2016—pictures from the final day of the all-things ceramic and glass manufacturing tradeshow in Cleveland, Ohio.
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