Posts by Lisa McDonald
Friday fun video: Super Lego mockup of Rolls-Royce Dreamliner engine
A half-size Rolls-Royce jet engine made of Legos. Credit: Rolls-Royce Trent; YouTube The UK’s Farnborough International Airshow is one of…
Read MoreSmart materials get SMARTer: Self-powered, homeostatic nanomaterials that actively self-regulate in response to environmental change
(Editor’s note: Eileen and I are traveling and preparing for the International Ceramics Congress that begins this weekend, so we…
Read MoreMoving towards copper oxide-based solar cells
(Editor’s note: Eileen and I are traveling and preparing for the International Ceramics Congress that begins this weekend, so…
Read MoreResearchers one step closer to new kind of thermoelectric ‘heat engine’
Researchers at Ohio State University have discovered how to magnify a quantum mechanical effect that converts heat into a special…
Read MoreNew NIST-led consortium aims to improve process for making ‘soft materials’
(Editor’s note: Eileen and I are traveling and preparing for the International Ceramics Congress that begins this weekend, so…
Read MoreTen videos by NSF-NBC explain ‘Science of the Summer Olympics’
The series of videos by NSF-NBC delves into the unique biomechanics of athletes, and how technology still has much to…
Read MoreVideo: Creating ultrasharp STM, AFM probes for superior resolution and durability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wkf2DxbKSFA Researchers at the University of Illinois have literally made a pointed improvement in microscopic probe tips. Led by Joe Lyding,…
Read MoreACerS short courses ‘make things easy to understand’
You may learn more than you were expecting at an ACerS short course. Take the recent “Fundamentals of Glass Science…
Read MoreOther materials science stories that may be of interest
Check ’em out: New method knocks out stubborn electron problem A newly published article in Physical Review Letters eliminates one…
Read MoreGood morning. Ah, a wormhole is still causing havoc in Houston
[Image above] Credit: Melanie Innis. With all the focus on the search for the Higgs boson and dark matter, it…
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