Posts by Lisa McDonald
What Eileen saw at the ACerS annual meeting at MS&T’11
At the MS&T Welcome Reception … Between sessions… Before and after the banquet … … including the President’s Council of…
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Wednesday materials fun: More jellyfish propulsion
Credit: Festo; YouTube. We featured work before on the Naval Research Labs work with artificial jellyfish for aquatic sensor applications,…
Read MoreMS&T’11/ACerS annual meeting blogging: Keramos award winning chapters
Missouri University of Science & Technology’s Keramos chapter won the Most Outstanding Chapter Award. The chapter’s representatives, front row, from…
Read MoreThe fuzzy line between biology and materials science: Using DNA to build new materials
NYU scientists have developed artificial structures consisting of triple helix molecules containing three DNA double helices that can self-replicate. I…
Read MoreMaterials Football Game of the Week: Virginia vs. Georgia Tech
The Game Georgia Institute of Technology at University of Virginia Oct. 15, 3:30 p.m., ET This week we return to…
Read MoreBerkeley Lab, Imperial College make progress on strong glass scaffolds for bone repairs
Researchers in the glass and ceramics field seem to be stepping up the search for materials and fabrication techniques that…
Read MoreARPA-E awards $37.3M for disruptive thermal storage innovations, materials
Last week Eileen reported on ARPA-E’s new awards in rare-earth alternative technologies. This week I thought I would take a…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news of the week
Here’s what we’re hearing (some info from news releases): ASD and Sacmi: A new partnership focussing on quality As part…
Read MoreDoes fast-firing of multilayer ceramic capacitors help or hinder?
The Clive Randall group at Penn State has just published a paper, “Effect of Firing Rates on Electrode Morphology and…
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