Posts by Lisa McDonald
The heat is on: Conductive graphene composite may help simplify aircraft ice removal
Chemists from Rice University in Houston, Texas, are turning up the heat on graphene. They’ve developed a graphene composite material to help heat surfaces and simplify ice removal.
Read MoreHow much stress can graphene stand? Researchers put material’s plasticity to the test
To better understand graphene’s potential when it comes to flexible electronics, researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas, are testing how graphene layers interact under shear strain.
Read MoreEMA 2016 delivers a buzz by connecting leaders and ideas in electronic materials
The 2016 edition of Electronic Materials and Applications—the meeting’s seventh annual installment—took place this week in sunny Orlando, Fla.
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Manufacturing employment predicted to drop, Alcoa teams up with GE Aviation, and more ceramics and glass business news of the week for January 22, 2015.
Read MoreWhat I wish I knew: Expert insight from John Mauro
Hindsight is 20/20, so we asked ceramic and glass experts to proffer their best advice. While they’re leaders, advisors, and role models now, they started somewhere. So listen up—their advice might help you in your own quest for success.
Read MoreVideo: Here’s how the periodic table got its four new elements
The Joint Working Party for the Discovery of New Elements has confirmed the discovery of four new elements that finally complete the table’s seventh row. But this news might not be as groundbreaking as the media buzz makes it seem…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Molten metal batteries, electromagnetic properties of graphene-BN materials, and other materials stories that may be of interest for January 20, 2015.
Read MoreBetter together: Perovskites paired with silicon could create higher-efficiency solar cells
Researchers at the University of Oxford in England say perovskites are the class of materials that will change the solar cell game not by themselves, but when teamed up with our reliable standby material, silicon.
Read MoreHow did it all begin? Glass mimicking space stuff could provide answers
Scientists at Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research, collaborating with scientists at Westphalian Wilhelms University of Münster and the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany, are experimenting with glass to help answer the very question of how it all began.
Read MoreGoing green, part II: ACerS members pioneer energy-saving technique for glass-forming
Researchers and ACerS members from Lehigh University and the University of Colorado have teamed up to decrease the amount of energy needed for glass-forming, an important process by which glass products take shape.
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