St. Louis Section/RCD 48th Annual Symposium March 28-29, 2012 St. Louis, MO USA The St. Louis Section and the Refractory Ceramics Division of The American Ceramic Society will sponsor the…
Read MoreRice University researchers, Robert Vajtai, Enrique Barrera and Yao Zhao created a conductive cable from iodine-doped nanotubes capable of carrying household current. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University Showing how something works…
Read MoreThe GameAuburn at ClemsonSept. 17, 11:00 a.m., CT; Clemson, S.C. When my four sisters and I were young, people often confused us because they thought we looked alike. What dolts,…
Read MoreThe image on the left is 3Y-TZP sintered at 1,500°C. The image on the right is of 3Y-TZP, which had a 60 Hertz AC electric field applied to it followed…
Read MoreCustom-built oxide molecular beam epitaxy system at Yale. Credit: CRISP. The National Science Foundation has awarded a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center grant of $13 million to a Yale…
Read MoreDiscovery’s under wing surfaces were protected by thousands of high-temperature insulation tiles. Credit: NASA; Wikipedia. NASA is jettisoning some stuff they don’t need, now that the Shuttle program has ended,…
Read MoreCredit: Wikipedia. Following up on our Aug. 18 post, “Patent reform working its way through Congress and 8,000,000th patent issued,” the Senate passed the America Invents patent reform legislation yesterday…
Read MoreHere’s a plug for a great event coming up in just about a month. The Materials, Science and Technology 2011 Conference & Exhibition will host an outstanding plenary session, “Grasping…
Read MoreCIE chromaticity coordinates of the IPC-I, IPC-II and reference sample, from “Color Tunable Upconversion Emission in Yb, Er Co-Doped Bismuth Titanate Inverse Opal,” JACerS, August 2011. Credit: JACerS. If a…
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