Posts by Lisa McDonald
Video of the week – Marina Pascucci on polycrystalline transparent ceramic materials and missile dome production
Marina Pascucci, president of CeraNova Corp., describes how her company fabricates the domes – the curved or pointed leading surfaces…
Read MorePlastic bags upcycled into carbon nanotubes
A chemist has created an ‘upcycling’ method of turning the disposable plastic bags into carbon nanotubes. The research is published…
Read MoreNew method for graphene growth successful
According to a press release, a Cornell research team has invented a simple way to grow graphene directly onto a…
Read MoreSanyo debuts solar and lithium ion-powered vehicle
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a … van with solar panel wings? As the United Nations Climate Change…
Read MoreDOE announces creation of ARPA-E Fellows program; $100M in new funding
The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy announced on Dec. 8 that it is launching a new fellowship project.…
Read MoreVideo of the week: 2009 Friedberg Memorial Lecture: ‘Ceramics in a 21st Century Materials World’ by Gary Fischman
Gary Fischman, director of National Academies’ boards dealing with Materials, Manufacturing and Infrastructure, was the 2009 Arthur L. Friedberg Memorial…
Read MoreNanotube-nanowire ink on paper yields cheap, flexible supercapacitors
In a new paper published in the current edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a Stanford…
Read MoreSolarmer Energy breaks record with 7.9% efficiency
(Via Treehugger) Solarmer Energy has announced that the company has achieved a new certified-by-NREL record for efficiency with their plastic…
Read MoreCeramic materials incorporated in fire-fighting concept vehicle
Not in actual production, but Yanko Design is trying to stretch the possibilities with a new type of all-terrain vehicle…
Read MoreMonday materials mind candy – Flexagons
My first introduction to flexagons, Richard Feynman, Martin Gardner, Scientific American magazine and topology happened when I was quite young…
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