Posts by Lisa McDonald
Cut, clarity, crunchy, and creamy—The 4Cs of diamonds made from peanut butter
Peanut butter lovers rejoice: PB diamonds are happening, thanks to the work of Dan Frost, scientist at Germany’s Bayerisches Geoinstitut.
Read MoreOne video, three new ACerS-Wiley titles, and six facts about the book industry
ACerS announced the release of three new books published in conjunction with publishing partner Wiley on UHTCs, CMCs, and biomaterials.
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics world
News from the glass and refractory ceramics world.
Read MoreTechnique prints rounded, facetless crystals for LEDs, solar cells, and pills
Researchers from the University of Michigan have figured out how to craft rounded crystals—a development that could advance LEDs, solar cells, functional coatings, and pharmaceutics—that resemble the bumpy surface of starfish shells.
Read MoreDOE funding to speed up nuclear R&D, lab-to-market transition
The Department of Energy is accelerating clean-energy technologies, flagging $13 million to advance nuclear energy R&D and launching a pilot program to speed up the lab-to-market process.
Read MoreRetired Corning scientist S. Donald Stookey dies at 99
Renowned glass scientist S. Donald Stookey—an ACerS member, Distinguished Life Member, and Fellow—died on Tuesday, Nov. 4, at the age of 99 in Pittsford, N.Y.
Read MoreMercedes-Benz’s new concept car harvests sun with its paint and has faux warp drive
Mercedes-Benz’s newest conceptual vision, the G-code, is an equally impressive exercise in creative thinking about what cars can do, evoke, and look like.
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Corning Tech Center to train in Korea, ICG to take Bangkok in 2015, ceramic tile trends, and other ceramics and glass business news of the week for November 7, 2014.
Read More75th Conference on Glass Problems has no problems delivering on pre-meeting promise
The content-rich, technically oriented conference, organized by the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council and Alfred University, delivered—kicking off Monday at the Greater Columbus Convention Center in the heart of downtown Columbus.
Read MoreHanging tough: Rare ceramic goes amorphous for strength
New research into a rare form of silica, stishovite, shows that the metastable material gets tough by a unique mechanism—transitioning from a crystalline to amorphous structure.
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