Posts by Lisa McDonald
Pore-enhanced silicon used to increase capacity of Li-ion batteries
According to a press release, a team of Rice University and Lockheed Martin scientists has discovered a way to use…
Read MoreMichigan/Northwest Ohio Section of ACerS to Host Tour
Reserve your spot to tour Adaptive Materials Inc. (AMI) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Thursday, Nov. 11! AMI specializes in the making of solid oxide fuel cells.
Read MoreVideo(s) of the week: Granular material techniques reboot robots’ grip
Credit: The University of Chicago; YouTube A granular “blob” instead pinchers or fingers at the end of robot arms? Researchers…
Read MoreSRNL energy park plans underway
Surplus land within the Savannah River National Lab site will be turned into an energy park. The DOE is exploring…
Read MoreSpahr, 30-year business veteran, elevated to ACerS executive director post
At its just-concluded meeting in Houston, Texas, the Board of Directors of The American Ceramic Society announced that it has selected one of the Society’s upper-level managers, Charles Spahr, to be the organization’s new executive director.
Read MoreMaterials stories that may also be of interest
At the end of each week, I end up with a list of a bunch of stories I started to…
Read MoreClean Energy Alliance, DOE partner to support commercialization of clean energy technologies
Nanowerk.com reported that the Clean Energy Alliance, the national association of clean energy business incubators, announced the formation of the…
Read MoreStudying wurtzite under pressure could lead to new class of durable materials
Wang and colleagues used small angle X-ray diffraction and wide-angle X-ray diffraction to observe changes in the molecular structure of…
Read MoreNew equation could advance research in solar cells
University of Michigan researchers have developed a new equation that describes the current–voltage relationship at the junctions of organic semiconductors.…
Read More3D nanostructures created using capillary action
University of Michigan engineers are using a new manufacturing process called “capillary forming” to make carbon nanotubes in shapes that…
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