The March 2023 issue of the ACerS Bulletin—featuring sustainability in industry—is now available online. Plus—upcoming Bulletin digital evolution.
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While it is well known that packaging material can affect the flavor of food, the effect packaging has on milk has not been fully investigated. Researchers from North Carolina State University and Clemson University investigated the effect of packaging on both whole and skim milk.
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Perovskite-based thermochromic windows, chip-size titanium-doped sapphire laser, and other materials stories that may be of interest for February 15, 2023.
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Small scale, big discoveries: Reducing thickness of antiferroelectric films turns them ferroelectric
While size effects in ferroelectric materials have been extensively studied, there are far fewer studies on how structure and properties evolve in antiferroelectric materials with reduced dimensions. In a recent open-access paper, researchers report the surprising discovery that below a certain thickness, antiferroelectric films will become completely ferroelectric.
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American Elements announces new Fusion Energy Division, Wolfspeed and ZF announce partnership for future silicon carbide semiconductor devices, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for February 13, 2023.
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Advanced applications are not the only use for advanced materials. A graduate engineering student at Drexel University discovered he could create bleed-free inks for calligraphy using MXenes, a novel 2D material family comprising transition metal carbides and nitrides.
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Giant Mine is a closed gold mine located just north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada. Efforts are underway to remediate the site, including a study on the potential of vitrification as a permanent solution to the site’s toxic arsenic trioxide dust.
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Semiconducting borophene, destroying PFAS with BN, and other materials stories that may be of interest for February 8, 2023.
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Despite the well-known susceptibility of ceramics to thermal shock, there is little experimental verification of real-time crack growth due to this phenomenon. Researchers in China used digital image correlation to conduct real-time measurements of thermal shock cracking in opaque ceramics.
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Europe’s biggest brick factory ready to go online, NIST releases first AI Risk Management Framework, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for February 6, 2023.
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