Posts by Lisa McDonald
Ceramic and glass business news of the week for September 11, 2023
Corning to establish Indian Gorilla Glass production facility, U.S. and Vietnam ink historic partnership, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for September 11, 2023.
Read MoreCompliant combustion: Nanocoating offers new way to control ‘runaway’ thermal reactions
Current methods for controlling “runaway” thermal reactions such as combustion and pyrolysis remain rather rudimentary. Researchers led by North Carolina State University developed a new nanocoating that, when applied to a material before combustion, allows for the reaction rate and direction of ignition propagation to be controlled.
Read MorePropelling GaN electronics adoption, plus more inside September 2023 ACerS Bulletin
The September 2023 issue of the ACerS Bulletin—featuring an overview of the current gallium nitride-based device market—is now available online. Plus—ACerS Awards of 2023 and C&GM.
Read MoreVideo: Ensuring water access in arid environments—pilot fog catcher system simultaneously collects and cleans water
Fog catching provides people living in dry but foggy areas with a stable water source. But air pollution can make the collected water unsafe for use unless it is treated. Researchers led by ETH Zurich developed a system for simultaneously harvesting and cleaning the water collected from fog nets.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest for September 6, 2023
Sensing at the nanoscale, recycling refractory materials, and other materials stories that may be of interest for September 6, 2023.
Read MoreCeramics and ceramists on the Manhattan Project: A narrative of activities at MIT
There are many hidden stories of the people who worked on the Manhattan Project, which resulted in the world’s first atomic bombs. In 1990, the late ACerS Fellows Osgood J. Whittemore and Louis R. McCreight published an article uncovering some of this history by describing research conducted at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop refractory crucibles for nuclear metals processing.
Read MoreCeramic and glass business news of the week for September 4, 2023
Saint-Gobain creates circular economy program for scrap finished goods, U.S. and India launch renewable energy technology action platform, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for September 4, 2023.
Read MoreNew framework strengthens link between a ceramic’s structural hierarchy and its properties
Materials scientists often use grain size as the determining variable when correlating a ceramic’s structure with its properties. But the morphology and orientation of the grains can also significantly affect a material’s properties. Researchers in China developed a framework that can correlate a material’s structural hierarchy with its properties, and their latest paper explores the potential of linking this framework to Vickers hardness.
Read MoreThe ‘very important role’ of ceramics in energy on full display at MCARE/EHS 2023
The combined Materials Challenges in Alternative & Renewable Energy and Energy Harvesting Society meeting took place Aug. 21–24, 2023, in Bellevue, Wash. Almost 170 attendees from 16 countries attended the conference to participate in cross-border discussions on overcoming the many materials and process-related challenges in the transition to a sustainable energy future.
Read MoreVideo: Movies in glass—the LIFETILES of Rufus Butler Seder
Lenticular printing, or a method to produce printed images that change or move depending on viewing angle, typically uses plastic as the medium. Artist Rufus Butler Seder developed a way to create glass-based lenticular images, and his murals appear in public places around the world.
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