Posts by Lisa McDonald
News roundup
Alfred University to offer short course on glass and ceramics fracture, failure Alfred University’s Inamori School of Engineering will offer a…
Read MoreMimicking butterflies to make silica thin films
Editor’s note: This story comes from the excellent writing staff at MaterialsViews.com. The beauty of butterflies has fascinated humanity over…
Read MoreNews from the glass and refractory worlds
• Vidrala Group has announced that it has closed the first quarter of 2012 with a consolidated net profit of…
Read MoreACerS and NIST agreement continues 60 year ceramic phase diagrams program
Last week, ACerS executive director Charlie Spahr inked a new agreement with NIST to continue the 60-year collaboration between the…
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IBC Advanced Alloys signs nuclear fuel R&D agreement IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. has entered into a sponsored research agreement with…
Read MoreMaking entrepreneurship successful. 3rd Ceramic Leadership Summit track at ICC4
[flash https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/clstrack.flv mode=1 f={image=https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/clstrack.jpg}] Kathy Faber, president of the 4th International Congress on Ceramics, talks about the 3rd Ceramic Leadership…
Read MoreOther materials science stories that may be of interest
Here’s a selection of what we’re hearing. Corning launches ultra-slim flexible glass Corning Incorporated launched Corning Willow Glass, an ultra-slim…
Read MoreSkyrmions—magnetic bubbles that may be useful places to store data
Magnetic eddies in silicon manganese, so-called skyrmions, form a regular grid. Moving these skyrmions needs 100,000 times smaller currents than…
Read MoreBig Data getting big attention from NIST and mainstream press
Big Data is the subject of a NIST-NSF workshop next week, but dealing with massive data sets is an issue…
Read MoreARO report on materials with spin-mediated thermal properties and call for additional research toward thermoelectrics
Contributed by Pani Varanasi, Program Manager, Physical Properties of Materials, Materials Science Division, Army Research Office: Thermal transport in materials…
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