Posts by Lisa McDonald
Materials 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…
Read MoreAlpha Sigma Mu members: This will leave you in knots
The materials science and engineering honorary society, Alpha Sigma Mu, now has several really unique and attractive ties and scarves…
Read MoreU.S advanced battery market share to leap to 40% by 2015?
A new White House report and press release asserts that the United State’s share of the world’s advance battery market…
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