Posts by Lisa McDonald
NIST awards $26 million to American manufacturing centers
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently reaffirmed its commitment to small- and mid-sized manufacturers through the awarding of cooperative agreements to 10 nonprofit organizations and universities who oversee Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers.
Read MoreVoxel8 introduces the world’s first 3-D electronics printer
Jennifer Lewis’s Harvard-based research group is the first to develop and market a 3-D printer that can incorporate conductive inks and plastics into 3-D printed electronics through their spinoff company, Voxel8.
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Schott plant suffers fire, Ferro acquires TherMark, FCO develops slim SOFC, and more ceramics and glass business news of the week for March 6, 2015.
Read MoreHighly conductive, undoped oxide film will help solar cells harness more sunlight
Researchers from the University of Luxembourg and Japanese electronics company TDK report that they’ve developed a conductive oxide film that boasts increased infrared transparency and creates a higher current.
Read MoreLong-term measurements of ultrastable glass flow cut short with new process
Researchers from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain), University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy), and Politecnico Milano (Italy) have devised a technique to rapidly manufacture “old” glass—a process that would otherwise take millennia—and have generated results that suggest current glass theories might need revision.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Detecting thin film defects, aluminum supeatoms superconduct, extracting lithium from China’s coal, and other materials stories that may be of interest for March 4, 2015.
Read MoreOptimized ceramic microstructure removes more automobile emissions at cold start
Corning’s innovators have developed a new ceramic substrate, Flora, with an “optimized material microstructure” that is designed to decrease cold-start automobile emissions.
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics world
News from the glass and refractory ceramics world.
Read MoreMaterials research and research centers get leg up from NSF funding
Thanks to a multi-million-dollar infusion of funding from the National Science Foundation, materials and materials research centers are having one of their best months ever.
Read MorePutting an ear to materials: Ultrasonic nonlinear imaging detects defects before cracks form
Researchers at Bristol University in the United Kingdom have devised an ultrasonic nonlinear imaging technique to detect defects in materials, even before faults form.
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