Posts by Lisa McDonald
Ceramics help Bloodhound keep its cool during record attempt for world’s fastest vehicle
U.K.-based heat management specialist Zircotec is helping out the Bloodhound SSC team with some special ceramic solutions that will protect the car from extreme heat that will be generated during the car’s rocket-powered run.
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Electrolytes go solid-state, quantum dots light the future, and other materials stories that may be of interest for August 26, 2015.
Read MoreCeRTEV makes great strides in glass education during summer school program in Brazil
The Center for Glass Research, Technology and Education in Vitreous Materials (CeRTEV) organized one of the world’s largest short courses focusing on glass education worldwide in São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil, this month.
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Surprises about 2-D molybdenum disulfide, sulfur waste turns into plastic, and other materials stories that may be of interest for August 25, 2015.
Read MoreElectronics fight club: Can gallium nitride sock it to silicon?
MIT spinout company Cambridge Electronics Inc. is helping gallium nitride get into the center ring with its recent announcement of “a line of GaN transistors and power electronic circuits that promise to cut energy usage in data centers, electric cars, and consumer devices by 10 to 20 percent worldwide by 2025,” according to an MIT News article.
Read MoreTougher than tough: Borate that expands under pressure
Not all 3-D materials shrink under pressure—some rare ones actually expand, according to researchers at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Read More3M–Ceradyne merger drives innovation in new directions, plus more stories in the September 2015 ACerS Bulletin
What does the 3M–Ceradyne merger have to do with the highest ACerS awards and engineered refractory aggregates? All are feature stories in the September issue of the ACerS Bulletin, now available online.
Read MoreIs producing ‘defective’ graphene the new scale-up solution?
Researchers at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan have developed a simple, cost-effective approach to produce graphene in a way that they say broadens the material’s potential commercial applications—they’re calling it ‘defective’ graphene.
Read MoreLego Ideas goes nanoscale to build interest in materials science and engineering
Lego Ideas, the toy company’s platform for crowd-sourced ideas for new Lego sets, has ventured into the materials science and engineering world.
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Producing high-temp ceramic nanofibers, new research center to study gallium nitride, and other materials stories that may be of interest for August 19, 2015.
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