Posts by Lisa McDonald
Turkey’s advanced R&D inspires tomorrow’s innovations, plus more inside October/November 2022 ACerS Bulletin
The October/November 2022 issue of the ACerS Bulletin—featuring an overview of research and markets in Turkey—is now available online. Plus—the etymological origins of various names for “glass.”
Read MoreVideo: Hydrogen taxi takes to the streets in Brussels
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are another option besides electric vehicles to decarbonize the transportation industry. Brussels-based taxi company Taxis Verts just launched a one-year pilot project exploring the potential of using hydrogen fuel cell cars in its fleet.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
High-strength pultruded thermoplastic composites, folded diamond, and other materials stories that may be of interest for September 21, 2022.
Read MoreNext-gen spacecraft: In-development solid oxide fuel cells offer bipropellant enabled electrical power supply
Mass and volume limitations make it challenging to load a spacecraft with all the equipment needed for a mission. An effort led by the Air Force Research Laboratory is developing a solid oxide fuel cell that converts chemical energy in a spacecraft’s bipropellant into electricity, thereby allowing an existing spacecraft component to be used as an auxiliary power supply.
Read MoreCeramic and glass business news of the week for September 19, 2022
Africa’s first hydrogen power plant to start producing electricity in 2024, NIST and Google to create new supply of chips for researchers and tech startups, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for September 19, 2022.
Read MoreThermo Fisher Scientific in conjunction with ACerS presents ‘Strategy = Success: Navigating NSF Funding Proposals’
Strategy = Success: A Look Through Experienced Eyes for Navigating NSF Funding Proposals Sponsored by: ACerS Corporate Partner Thermo Fisher…
Read MoreUltrafast high-temperature sintering offers rapid, pressureless production of high-quality glasses
In 2020, researchers led by the University of Maryland developed an ultrafast high-temperature sintering method to achieve rapid, pressureless sintering of ceramics. Now, they and colleagues from Alfred University and the University of California, San Diego used this method to fabricate high-quality silica glass.
Read MoreVideo: Approval of industrial seafloor mining trial elicits scrutiny from marine scientists and journalists
On Sept. 7, 2022, Canadian mining startup The Metals Company announced the International Seabed Authority greenlit their plan to conduct an industrial seafloor mining trial to extract polymetallic nodules. While marine scientists are concerned about the environmental effects of deep-sea mining in general, an investigative report by The New York Times questions the choice of The Metals Company to conduct this trial.
Read MoreOther materials stories that may be of interest
Ceramics improve MRIs, 3D printing on Mars, and other materials stories that may be of interest for September 14, 2022.
Read MoreOSTP public access policy memo stirs the scholarly publishing world
On Aug. 25, 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy released new policy guidance recommending that publications and their supporting data resulting from federally funded research be made immediately free and accessible to the public without an embargo period starting Jan. 1, 2026. To better contextualize this decision and the response by scholarly publishers, this CTT provides a brief history of the evolution of scholarly publishing and the push for open access.
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