Posts by Lisa McDonald
Rare earth’s brick wall
This falls into the “must read” category. A few weeks back, I posted on major cuts in China rare earth…
Read MoreTitania–concrete combination in roadways reduces NOx levels 25-45%
Earlier this month, Jos Brouwers, a professor of building materials at Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands), reported that tests on…
Read MoreMaterials stories that didn’t make the cut this week
At the end of each week, I end up with a list of a bunch of stories I started to…
Read MoreCO2 utilization gets another boost from DOE worth $106M
Late yesterday, the DOE announced that it is investing another $106 million in six projects to demonstrate the feasibility of…
Read More50 R&D 100 Awards given to national labs
Ultrasensitive Nanomechanical Transducers Based on Nonlinear Resonance, one of ORNL’s 2010 R&D 100 award winners. R&D Magazine awarded DOE and…
Read MoreCal Tech, LBNL, Stanford and UC Berkeley, San Diego and Santa Barbara get $122M for artificial photosynthesis
With today’s announcement that it will be using $122 million to launch a new energy hub on artificial photosynthesis, the…
Read MoreMcLuhan and archaic poster sessions
[Two notes: The comments below are my opinions. Sometimes convention need to be re-examined, especially as new technology and other…
Read MoreSintering nuclear fuel pellets contract to Harper Intl.
Harper International has been awarded a contract to supply an advanced thermal processing system for the sintering of nuclear fuel…
Read MoreBecause lithium has worked so very well for Bolivia’s economy
I hope a PIO is to blame for this too-clever headline: “Lithium could be gold mine for Afghanistan.” But, the…
Read MorePoster sessions: Beloved dinosaurs?
I once heard the old horrible saying about spouses – “you can’t live with ’em and you can’t live without…
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