The August 2023 issue of the ACerS Bulletin—featuring an overview of the global lithium market—is now available online. Plus—USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries.
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SCINEMA is an international science film festival based in Australia. During the month of August, anyone around the world can register and watch the films for free through the festival’s website. This year’s entries cover an expansive range of topics, from cutting-edge cancer treatments to asteroid deflection plans.
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Programmable nanoclays, breakthrough in Monte Carlo simulations, and other materials stories that may be of interest for August 2, 2023.
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The effect niobium oxide has on the macroscopic properties of glass is reasonably well-known, but its specific structural role in glass remains poorly understood. To address this knowledge gap, researchers from the Center for Research, Technology, and Education in Vitreous Materials in Brazil combined spectroscopic data on niobium-containing silicate glasses with advanced computational modeling.
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New industries consortium to drive low carbon innovation in the U.K., Turkish recycling project collects 1.6 billion units of packaging waste, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for July 31, 2023.
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Automating experiments can help speed up the materials development process. Researchers led by North Carolina State University developed a new high-throughput automated testing system that deposits multiple samples on the same substrate, thus saving time and energy.
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Testing the durability of building materials is typically a slow, tedious, and labor-intensive process. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used computer vision to develop a fast and affordable method for testing cement durability, demonstrating the potential to improve quality control in the cement industry through automated methods.
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Creating carbon nanotubes on foil, mining minerals using algae, and other materials stories that may be of interest for July 26, 2023.
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While some studies have demonstrated that electric fields and light exposure can affect the motion of dislocations in ceramics, the principal driving force of motion in these cases was mechanical stress. Now, an international group of researchers showed dislocation motion in a single-crystalline zinc sulfide can be controlled using only an external electric field.
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SCHOTT conducts successful laboratory tests with 100% hydrogen, Japan steps up energy diplomacy with Middle East tour in push for ‘stable’ ties, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for July 24, 2023.
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