Posts by Lisa McDonald
Integrated Roadways’ smart concrete is helping build smarter, safer, and connected roads
Integrated Roadways (Kansas City, Mo.) is a company with big plans for an uber-connected world—the company is pioneering its namesake to build a world literally and figuratively connected by a mobile Internet of Things.
Read MoreResearchers create single diamond/boron nitride crystalline layers for more efficient high-power machining
ACerS member Jay Narayan and his research team at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique to deposit diamond on the surface of cubic boron nitride, integrating the two materials into a single crystalline structure that can be used in high-power devices.
Read MoreVideo: Teslaphoresis self assembles carbon nanotubes to wire and light LED
Rice University scientists—and collaborators from the University of Tennessee, Texas A&M Engineering, and Second Baptist School—have discovered that they can use Tesla coils to direct long-range self-assembly of carbon nanotubes.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
A winning recipe for 3-D printing bone, visualizing lithiation of iron oxide, and other materials stories that may be of interest for May 11, 2016.
Read MoreStructural 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.
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