Posts by Lisa McDonald
Ceramics and glass business news of the week
Here is what we are hearing: Integration of Hanse Chemie Inc. USA, into Evonik Goldschmidt Corp. As of Jan. 1,…
Read MoreThe ‘Pitch Drop’ experiment is one for the generations
Would you start an experiment that took three years to set up, yielded it’s first result eight years later and…
Read MoreNational Research Council names 16 tech priorities for NASA
“Success in executing future NASA space missions will depend on advanced technology developments that should already be underway,” according to…
Read MoreMechanism offered for how seawater could corrode nuclear fuel
When Japanese officials acted out of desperation and used seawater to cool the cores at the Fukushima-Daiichi reactors last year,…
Read MoreTime to vote for ARPA-E’s ‘America’s Next Top Energy Innovator;’ 2012-13 competition also announced
Late last year we told you about the reality-TV-inspired event ARPA-E is conducting — “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator” —…
Read MoreHistoric January 1987: YBCO superconductors discovered and Super Bowl XXI
Do you recall where you were the weekend before the Super Bowl in 1987? Me neither. No matter, let’s play…
Read MoreToughened, flexible silica aerogel? Joint Japanese–Chinese group shows how to do it
This sounds like the type of breakthrough aerogel fans have yearning for. A newly published paper in Angewandte Chemie reports on…
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Check ’em out: Scorpions inspire scientists in making tougher surfaces for machinery Researchers studied the bumps and grooves on the…
Read MorePhotoblogging from ICACC (Daytona Beach): Expo, Shot Glass Drop, posters and more
The Shot Glass Drop competition gave students and young professionals a chance to put their on-the-spot design talents to the…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing: Kyocera’s 315-watt, 80-cell solar module launches in the US Kyocera Solar Inc. has announced the…
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