It’s Friday, which means many of us will be mowing grass, grooming our gardens, and conducting physical or chemical warfare against dandelions. Before you start thinking unkind thoughts about the…
Read MoreSolar concentration mirror for PV energy generation. Credit: Replex Plastics. Yesterday, the DOE announced $27 million in new funding for projects aimed at reducing the non-hardware costs of solar energy…
Read MoreLaser-heated diamond anvil cell allows very large hydrostatic pressure to be applied to amorphous carbon aerogels. Cavity dimensions are approximately 100–170 μm wide by 35 μm thick. Credit: LLNL. While…
Read MoreSRNL’s John Marra speaks to GOMD about materials for nuclear energy and impact of Fukushima incident
Credit: Eileen De Guire; ACerS As announced in an earlier post, John Marra, chief research officer at Savannah River National Lab spoke at the conference dinner at the annual meeting…
Read MoreExperimental setup shows an IR free-electron laser light source and perovskite superlens consisting of BiFeO3 and strontium titanate SrTiO3 layers. Imaged objects are strontium ruthenate patterns (orange) on a SrTiO3…
Read Morea) Schematic of the HPCVD process, where a high pressure precursor mixture is configured to flow into a capillary (left). When the capillary is heated, well-developed annular films are deposited.…
Read MoreContact Information: Minoru Tomozawa, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutetomozm@rpi.edu NSF Abstract in Ceramics Program: Glasses with Fictive Temperature-Independent Properties 2010 Highlight: Presentation Material Keywords: Glass Area Keywords: Innovation/Economy Broader Impact Keywords: Mentoring,…
Read MoreContact Information: Steve W. Martin, Iowa State University swmartin@iastate.edu NSF Abstract in Ceramics Program: Materials World Network: An International Collaborative Educational and Research Program in the Study of Mixed Glass…
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