Posts by Lisa McDonald
Brosnan added to revamped GE blog
GE recently overhauled its blog and its worth stopping by to see the goodies. The blog, called “Edison’s Desk,” looks…
Read MoreX-rays reported to trigger crystal formation
A team from Northwestern University reports in the new issue of Science about the role that X-rays can play in crystal…
Read MoreVideo(s) of the week: Ceramic matrix composite brakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l09UXQYEQKo Credit: NikolasKK; YouTube I’m currently in Daytona Beach, Florida for the ICACC’10 conference. One of the keynote speakers was…
Read MoreMonday materials music
By homey Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices. He was everyone’s favorite 4th-grade teacher.
Read MoreFord to pump $450M into battery technology for electric cars
Having just announced that they will be spending $550 million converting a Detroit SUV factory into a hybrid and electric…
Read MoreResearchers build first nanodragster
Live Science reported that researchers have built a new super-small “nanodragster” that could speed up efforts to craft molecular machines.…
Read MoreEnergy innovation meeting coming up
It’s worth noting the ARPA-E has a big shindig coming March 1-3 in Washington, DC. Billed as the ARPA-E Energy…
Read MoreDuPont completes $295M expansion for PV market
DuPont announced an investment of $175 million to complete the multi-phase expansion of its high-performance Tedlar PV2001 series oriented film production…
Read MoreDanielson says ceramists have a home at ARPA-E
David Danielson, one of the project directors of DOE’ relatively new $400 million ARPA-E program gave today’s keynote presentation at…
Read MoreNanotechnology to improve efficiency and appearance of LEDs
In this struggling economy, businesses as well as the general populace are all struggling to do more with less. In the…
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