Posts by Lisa McDonald
Chemical & Engineering News reports on GOMD; Saint-Gobain releases life cycle assessments for glass and mirrors
There are two interesting articles from the glass world that are of more than general interest. Mitch Jacoby, a…
Read MoreA123 Systems improves Li-ion battery and hopes to improve fortunes, too
A123 Systems is looking for “tweaks” to improve the battery’s—and the company’s—fortunes. A story earlier this week on Technology Review…
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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…
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