Posts by Lisa McDonald
New ceramicSOURCE online marketplace
The ceramicSOURCE is your one-stop-shop for raw material
suppliers, equipment vendors, consultants, research groups, engineering services and more.
Phosphate ceramic corrosion protection coatings
Corrosion is expensive. The cost of corrosion to industrialized nations is about 3 percent of GDP. In the United States…
Read MoreACerS launches new ceramicSOURCE online product-service-company directory
The staff at The American Ceramic Society has just released a fantastic new online “marketplace” tool— the “ceramicSOURCE‘— for anyone…
Read MoreMaterials stories that may also be of interest
Check ’em out: • New sensor to measure structural stresses can heal itself when broken • NC State to create video game…
Read MoreMonday materials fun: Hotel rooms from reused concrete pipe
Via Gizmag, and originally from archdaily: “The idea came when we built Cafe Five, where we saw the need to…
Read MoreTwo steps forward, one step back for solar tech in Ohio
The State of Ohio has been whipsawed by recent positive and negative announcements related to solar tech industries and jobs,…
Read MoreEuropean Union trading farm subsidies for 45% increase in science funding
Despite the “austerity” thinking in some circles, this really seems like some logical strategic thinking (meaning, the thing about “strategies”…
Read MoreNonvolatile phase-change memory devices are three steps closer to reality
Two new studies serve as bookend demonstrations of the near-term potential for phase-change memory materials for use as nonvolatile data…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news this week
Here’s what we are hearing: Horiba Scientific offers new instruments for partical analysis The new SZ-100 series instruments analyze key…
Read MoreLux Research weighs in on off-grid storage, non-platinum catalyst solutions
Lux Research continues to track materials and tech prospects as closely as anyone I know, and two recent reports show…
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