Posts by Lisa McDonald
Materials Football Game of the Week: Case Western Reserve at Carnegie Mellon
The Game Case Western Reserve University at Carnegie Mellon University Nov. 12, 2:000 p.m., ET These two look-alike schools will…
Read More1 World Trade Center unveils replacement for flawed glass designs
[Image above] New glass sheathing for 1 WTC ‘pedestal” will go below the glass portions that can be seen in…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we are hearing (some information from news releases): L&L Kiln introduces the Corona kiln This fiber-lined kiln reaches…
Read MoreMuch ado about nothing … and the study thereof
Being neither a physicist nor a mathematician, Shakespeare probably knew very little about nothing. Try explaining this to the family…
Read MoreNIST Engineering Laboratory posts summaries of new programs and projects
[Image above] Metal powder, and resulting metal parts made from a metal additive manufacturing process developed by the Materials Standards…
Read MoreVideo of the week: ‘Material Marvels’: Yale prof explains materials science in about 3 minutes
[Image above] Ainissa Ramirez, associate professor at Yale and science popularizer, uses bathroom tiles to explain symmetry and five-fold quasicrystal…
Read MoreCan the US afford to pull the plug on SOFC and SECA funding?
No. Will it anyway? Unfortunately, it looks that way, based on the DOE’s 2012 budget request (pdf), which hacks off…
Read MoreFree article downloads available from Wiley Online Library
A few months ago, ACerS introduced a valuable new member benefit: the ACerS/Wiley Download Direct program. Each month you can download a free article from the comprehensive Wiley Online Library.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Check ’em out: How to increase the data storage density of HDDs: Just add salt A team of researchers from…
Read MoreThe Solyndra effect—Fruity thinking on federal nuclear startup loan guarantees
Southern Company, a Georgia utility, is building a new nuclear power plant with the help of a federal loan guarantee.…
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