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Check ’em out: Princeton engineers make breakthrough in ultrasensitive Raman-based sensor Princeton researchers have invented an extremely sensitive sensor that…
Read MoreAlfred U.’s Inamori Kyocera Museum of Fine Ceramics to be dedicated May 10
Recently I’ve covered a few stories related to exhibitions on technical ceramics (e.g., here and here), but these have been…
Read MoreRevolution in wound care? Inexpensive, easy-to-use cotton candy-like glass fibers appear to speed healing in initial venous stasis wound trial
[Image above] When applied to venous stasis wounds, the borate glass nanofibers developed at Missouri S&T and produced by Mo-Sci…
Read MoreCeramics and glass business news from this week
Union Process manufactures dry grinding attritor for ceramics Union Process Inc., known globally as a manufacturer of size reduction and…
Read MoreNIST news on glass transition, double graphene layers, magnet shape effects, new manufacturing blog and favored PV technologies
NIST’s latest Tech Beat has many great stories of interest to readers interested in materials science: Understanding how glasses ‘relax’…
Read MoreSuper-small erasable SketchSET transistor, ‘artificial atom’ could lead to super-big payoff
Good news, Moore’s Law: You are still not extinct. A group of researchers recently announced the development of a single-electron…
Read MoreMaterials stories that may also be of interest
Check ’em out: Toyota Announces finalists in ‘Ideas For Good’ challenge ‘Solar group buy’ program launched in California Novel bulk…
Read MoreMcIlvaine predicts Japan’s nuclear problems will lead to $200B shift to alternative sources
(h/t to GlobalSpec) Not unpredictably, Japan’s ongoing nuclear problems are going to reshape how nations allocate their future energy investments, and…
Read MoreSensitive sensor-packed microchip and new analytical model could test 100,000 protein–drug interactions in minutes
Stanford University researchers say they have combined the development of a microchip packed with 100,000 unique protein sensors and a…
Read MoreAdvanced materials opportunity: ARPA-E offers new $130M round of high-risk, high-reward funding
The DOE announced today that it is adding five new technology programs to the ARPA-E portfolio and is ponying-up $130…
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