Posts by Lisa McDonald
Taking toilets where they’ve never been before
Duravit – a sanitaryware manufacturer with attitude – is on a mission. The company is determined to make toilets more visible and…
Read MoreComing soon: self-powered cellphones, PDAs and more
Cellphones charged by voice sound waves. Drug delivery systems enabled by minute body movements. Military equipment powered by the motion…
Read MoreSteel-industry ‘boom’ was even bigger bust for refractories
The steel-industry report in Iron & Steel Technology magazine’s Dec. 2008 issue documents some of the bad news that members…
Read MoreChu, scientist and Nobel laureate, tapped for DOE head
There’s a ripple of excitement in the science and technical community. Imagine – an experienced scientist and successful administrator with…
Read MoreBay Area Plans to become US’ Electric Car Capital
(Hello to Ed Herderick, one of our new bloggers. Ed is working on his PhD in material sciences at The…
Read MoreVideo of the week – Solid oxide fuel cells
[Image above] Credit: M. Saiful Islam, YouTube The scientist featured in this video is M. Saiful Islam from the Department…
Read More‘Hospital on a chip’ promises fewer battlefield deaths
Fewer soldiers will die on the battlefield if two U.S. researchers succeed in developing a project called “field hospital on a…
Read MoreShucks, making man-made ‘nacre’ isn’t so hard
Two different approaches to the creation of materials that could be described as artificial nacre – nacre being that super…
Read MoreMeasuring nanomaterials as they grow
Thanks to researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., scientists now have a way to measure nanomaterials as they…
Read MoreOne BAM good nanocoating!
(Also – see BAM Update here.) What’s almost as hard as diamond, slicker than Teflon and “green” enough to reduce…
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