Posts by Lisa McDonald
GE launches latest round of $200M Ecomagination Challenge
I am a week late on getting this news out, so in all likelihood this is old news. Anyway, GE…
Read MoreSuperconducting, nonsuperconducting states of cuprates ‘not that different’
A new story in Science reports that an international team of researchers have been able to turn a non-superconducting form…
Read MoreMonday materials fun – the father of gesture-sensing technology
Microsoft’s Kinect technology looks like a success, and it looks like Apple and other groups close to Apple are going…
Read MoreRice group: Silica + titania = cheap, green, improved water purification
I don’t have enough historical perspective to know if this is truly a eureka moment or not, but a group…
Read MorePBS, NSF to launch four-part materials science extravaganza Jan. 19
Like materials science? I am assuming you do if you read this blog. So, believe me when I say you…
Read MoreACerS needs input on Structure Review Project
Some industry news from this week
On the business side of things: H.C. Starck and Cabot announce patent cross-license agreement on tantalum, niobium powder technology Z-Wave…
Read More‘Promising’ lightweight, multiwalled carbon nanotube aerogel debuts
A new development has been announced in the world of aerogel. ACS Nano published a paper on the process of…
Read MoreRolla hospital’s cancer institute named for ceramist Delbert Day
Nice honors for a good guy! The Phelps County Regional Medical Center in Rolla, Mo., announced yesterday that it is…
Read MoreNPR: Haitians take rubble removal into own hands
Last week we had about a report from researchers at Georgia Tech who show how concrete rubble from the earthquake…
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