Posts by Lisa McDonald
Ceramics and glass business news of the week
Mid-holiday edition: NanoMaterials Innovation Center welcomes new technical manager, process engineer The Nanomaterials Innovation Center is pleased to announce additions…
Read MoreNBC News: Glass cookware complaints in the US on the rise; finds Bulletin story sound
A while back I wrote a blog post about a story featured in the September issue of ACerS’ Bulletin by R.C. Bradt and…
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Mid-holidays edition: Peel-and-stick solar panels For all their promise, solar cells have frustrated scientists in one crucial regard: Most are…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• Vitro has started the process to recover $1.59 billion damages (PDF) caused by lawsuits filed to put Vitro into…
Read MoreIs artificial emotional intelligence possible? It depends on whom you ask
[Image above] Kismet, a 1990s-era robot made at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has auditory, visual, and facial systems to demonstrate…
Read MoreHappy holidays and season’s greetings, from The American Ceramic Society & Ceramic Tech Today
Video: GE demonstrates piezo-driven cooling air-circulation wafers
Credit: GE Research; YouTube For years, there have been scads of applications and gizmos based on piezoelectric materials. Nevertheless, I…
Read MoreNew in the Jan-Feb ACerS Bulletin—Testing and characterization of ceramics
On the cover: Cai Zhonghou, beamline scientist at the Advanced Proton Source at Argonne National Laboratory loads a sample into…
Read MoreCorning’s Dipak Chowdhury breaks down practical differences between Corning’s Willow and Gorilla glasses
Credit: Corning Incorporated; YouTube I’ve often wondered, myself, about how the market/application for Corning’s “other glass” (i.e., Willow Glass) is…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: Blasch names DeCarlo manager of R&D department (The Business Review) Blasch Precision Ceramics Inc.…
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