Posts by Lisa McDonald
New ACerS/Wiley Download Direct program for ACerS members
ACerS’ publishing partner Wiley is making a limited number of free article downloads from their comprehensive Online Library (each valued…
Read MoreA little dither here …
… and a little dither there, and pretty soon your whole electrical infrastructure is fried. Unless you believe in the…
Read MoreNew 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…
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