Posts by Lisa McDonald
MIT Concrete hub updates work on sustainability research
[Image above] World projected concrete demand. Credit: Karen Scrivener. Nature offers a new, free-access story by Ivan Amato that updates…
Read MoreInterstate Brick to host plant tour at Structural Clay Products Division meeting in May
Robots setting unfired brick. Credit: John Hewitt; Interstate Brick. The first floor hallway of the Ceramic Engineering building at the…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Here’s what we are reading about: Man-made material pushes the bounds of superconductivity A multi-university team of researchers has artificially…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• Corning Inc. has opened a liquid crystal display glass substrate manufacturing facility in China. It is located in the…
Read MoreNIST calling for measurement science and engineering research proposals
[Image above] Credit: J. Stroscio, R. Celotta/NIST. I am not sure how much (if any) of this could be…
Read MoreWhite House calls for increased access to federally funded research results
[Image above] The White House hopes to increase innovation in industry and manufacturing, in part, by making federally funded scientific…
Read MoreARPA-E seeking RANGE ‘re-envisioned battery’ proposals for electric vehicles
We have received word that ARPA-E is looking for proposals for “developing transformational electrochemical energy storage technologies that…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: AGC’s large-sized, chemically strengthened Dragontrail enables efficient production of thinner touchscreens Asahi Glass Co.…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Some other stories and papers worth looking into: Coupling the valley degree of freedom to antiferromagnetic order (PNAS) The exploration…
Read MoreMultidisciplinary approaches to materials discovery needed for MGI
[Image above] Last week a National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop addressed multidisciplinary approaches to the Materials Genome Initiative. From left: Gregory…
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