Posts by Lisa McDonald
Glass reacts to shifts in sun, wind to show that a window can be both beautiful and smart
Much like a kaleidoscope, Dutch designer Simon Heijdens’s smart window creates a glittering display of light that shifts based on the movement of sunlight and wind.
Read MoreCeramics set to solidify the future of solid-state batteries
University of Michigan researchers have been working on a scheme to use ceramics to improve even safer solid-state batteries, which completely do away with aqueous solutions altogether.
Read MoreDental implants made cheaper, stronger with ceramic-polymer blend and a dose of vitamin D
Experts from the Autonomous University of Baja California in Baja California, Mexico, are hoping to make dental implants equally attractive, more effective, and, more importantly, more affordable through the use of new materials.
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics world
News from the glass and refractory ceramics world.
Read MoreThe piezoelectric diet: Molybdenum disulfide thins down to charge up
Researchers from Columbia University and Georgia Institute of Technology might still be fist-pumping at how right they were about some interesting properties of thin molybdenum disulfide that aren’t present in the bulk material.
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
GE’s new ceramic matrix composite factory opens, Du-Co does mullite, PPG designing jet windshields, Morgan offers sapphire, US Silica named to Forbes list, and more ceramics and glass business news of the week for October 24, 2014.
Read MoreOne degree of Nobel separation (and no, it has nothing to do with Kevin Bacon)
Fun fact: Shuji Nakamura—who along with fellow winners Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano, received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes—has ties to ACerS.
Read MoreGotta keep ‘em separated: Garnet ceramics find calling as Li-ion battery bouncers
Scientists at Oak Ridge National Lab say that ceramics can improve the batteries of tomorrow. Testing of a garnet ceramic material LLZO suggests that it might be the perfect protector for lithium anodes in batteries that last longer and do more.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Superfast LEDs, ultrafast charging batteries, lead-free glass inks, dissolvable silicon, and other materials stories that may be of interest for October 22, 2014.
Read MorePrinted ceramics meet carbon fibers in the truest of wearable tech
SCOTT Sports’ ceramic-printed, carbon fiber bikewear, designed to keep skin safe from road rash, is also—added bonus—quite stylish.
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