Posts by Lisa McDonald
ACerS/NIST phase diagrams collection enters 80th year
Ideas that stand the test of time often have modest beginnings. The ACerS/NIST Phase Equilibria Diagram database is a case…
Read MoreVesuvius Research Center in Pittsburgh hosts student tour during the MS&T’12
Duane DeBastiani gave a presentation about Vesuvius and its technologies. Credit: Zhu; Vesuvius. Editor’s note: The student tour to a…
Read MoreScience, art or both? Winners of Cambridge University engineering department photography competition
[Image above] Zinc oxide grown on a nanoporous substrate. The exterior morphology gives the bump a tortoise shell look, but…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
[Image above] MTC reduced, reused, recycled and reorganized their way to an 8,000 square feet expansion of production capability without…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds
• PPG’s glass segment sales were $262 million for the third quarter 2012, down $11 million from the prior year.…
Read MoreAnisotropic, transparent fluoroapatite ceramics for high-power laser applications
[Image above] An Alfred University team led by Yiquan Wu is developing methods for synthesizing anisotropic, transparent, polycrystalline ceramics for…
Read MoreVideo: New nuclear fuel rod ‘jacket?’ EWI’s SiC joined-tube samples stable in MIT research reactor for six months
According to EWI researcher Edward Herderick, the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant presents a key question to…
Read MoreElegant and simple—stretching during spinodal decomposition aligns porosity in glass
[Image above] Different steps of the deforming procedure: (A) initial glass block, (B) sawn glass plate, (C) and (D) stretched…
Read MoreGlass conference in Sicily to focus on energy, information; student scholarships available
The International Materials Institute for New Functionalities in Glass, in association with the Engineering Conferences International, is sponsoring a conference Jan.…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: Zircoa: A corporate model for “Veterans Opportunity to Work” legislation Recenctly, Zircoa Inc. of…
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