Posts by Lisa McDonald
Ceramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we’re hearing: Morgan Thermal Ceramics offers manufacturing capability and engineering expertise for fired refractory shapes in metals market…
Read MoreACerS & Wiley publishing update of classic overview, ‘The Magic of Ceramics’
In the late 1990s, David W. Richerson (with assistance from across the spectrum of the individual and corporate members of…
Read MoreManage your career with ‘content assets,’ but don’t ‘swear’ by them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcMOLZWfbhY Publish or perish is not just for academics, it turns out. Your content strategy represents your net worth to…
Read MoreThree new ACerS books on glass-ceramics, ceramic composites and fracture
I was a student for enough years that this time of year brings on an imprinted urge to own some…
Read MoreNew paper addresses causes of shattering glass cookware; margin of safety described as ‘borderline’
[Image above] A reconstructed fractured soda lime silicate Pyrex bowl. Arrows outline crack paths. Credit: Photograph courtesy of G. Quinn.…
Read MoreBreakthrough in understanding piezoelectric mechanism in Pb-free ferroelectrics
Applying a poling field (Epol) creates a rhombohedral (R)/tetragonal (T) morphotropic phase boundary in a single phase grain of (Bi½Na½)TiO3-6%BaTiO3.…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Here is what we are hearing: Harper contracts with Orbite Aluminae for revolutionary high-purity alumina processing systems Harper International, world…
Read MoreGood news emerges on solar panel front, but not necessarily for US makers
Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that despite the seeming predominance of negative business news about solar panel manufacturers, the number…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory worlds
• The Rs 1,900-crore Hindusthan National Glass & Industries Ltd‘s (HNG) expects its fully-owned German outfit, Agenda Glas (now renamed…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: Lynas rockets after Malaysian plant approved (Sydney Morning Herald) Lynas Corp. stock soared by…
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