Posts by Lisa McDonald
Making photovoltaic solar cells that last
Yesterday, the DOE announced $27 million in new funding for projects aimed at reducing the non-hardware costs of solar energy…
Read MoreGE expands on thin-film solar, becomes near-term grid parity believer
For the first time that I am aware of, it General Electric seems to have jumped on the Sach’s Law…
Read MoreTransformed aerogels: From amorphous carbon to nanocrystalline diamond
Laser-heated diamond anvil cell allows very large hydrostatic pressure to be applied to amorphous carbon aerogels. While there has been…
Read MoreNanoscale intergranular films shed light on grain boundary behavior
During one of their studies, grain boundary researchers began with gold films broken into particles (via annealing) dispersed across a…
Read MoreEnergy Frontier Research Centers to showcase work on ‘grand challenges’
The next few days should be fun for materials scientists and engineers. Tomorrow (May 25) begins the start of a…
Read MoreSRNL’s John Marra speaks to GOMD about materials for nuclear energy and impact of Fukushima incident
John Marra, chief research officer at Savannah River National Lab spoke at the conference dinner at the annual meeting of…
Read MoreGoing pro: Ceramist De Guire joins blog, ACerS communications staff
On behalf of The American Ceramic Society, I am very pleased to officially announce that Eileen De Guire is now…
Read MoreFractured plans: After $10M expenditure, tempering problems lead to abandonment of 1 World Trade Center’s prism glass façade
Although it seems that the decision actually was made several weeks ago, news is just now starting to bubble up…
Read MoreNEW Global Young Investigators Forum at ICACC’12
TAMU group’s ultrathin polymer–clay coating creates flexible, transparent gas barrier
It’s easy to imagine that the makers of food products have a wish list for packaging that, besides the obvious…
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