Posts by Lisa McDonald
Tesla: Come on and take a free ride . . . or not
Last Friday I was working out of South Boston, and after being cooped up in a hotel room most of…
Read MoreDOE commits to $1.45B loan for concentrating solar and $400M for thin solar
Today the Administration announced that the DOE agreed to guarantee large loans for two separate solar power equipment makers, Abengoa…
Read MoreMaterials-oriented schools make top-25 of BusinessWeek’s ‘best bargain’
It’s great to see that a large number of schools that we reference in this blog made it to Bloomberg…
Read MoreCoorsTek to acquire Saint-Gobain Advanced Ceramics
CoorsTek announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase the advanced ceramics business of Saint-Gobain for $245 million.…
Read More40 years and still growing: Polymer-derived ceramics field still on upswing
A quartet of researchers from Italy and Germany have published an fascinating overview of polymer-derived ceramics in the most recent…
Read MoreIs this for real: Stealth heat signature?
Credit: Defense Update; YouTube I am hoping some of our readers may know what this is about. I get that…
Read MoreCeramic Leadership Summit: Students see it as ‘exciting departure from norm’
For two students who are used to attending technical conferences like MS&T and ICACC, the experience at the first Ceramic…
Read MoreTests show viability with carbon sequestration and oil recovery
According to a DOE press release, field tests have shown that using carbon dioxide in an oil recovery method dubbed…
Read MoreVideo of the week: Luminescent and electroceramic research at Fujihara Lab
Credit: Keio University; YouTube Shinobu Fujihara, professor of engineering at Keio University (Japan), oversees a lab that has been investigating…
Read MorePG&E, SunRun to finance $100 million in home solar projects
The New York Times reported that California utility Pacific Gas & Electric and solar company SunRun have formed an alliance…
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