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.
Read MoreSemiconducting borophene, destroying PFAS with BN, and other materials stories that may be of interest for February 8, 2023.
Read MoreDespite 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.
Read MoreEurope’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.
Read MoreMolten salt electrochemical conversion may offer an economic and relatively clean way to extract pure carbon products from stored carbon dioxide emissions. In a recently published open-access paper, researchers from the University of Science and Technology Beijing summarize the successes and challenges of this process.
Read MoreThe Ocean Race is a boat race around the world, held every three or four years since 1973. Starting with the 2017–2018 race, the Ocean Race organizers and racing teams coordinate a science program in tandem with the race to gather data on the ocean.
Read MoreSelf-cleaning solar panels, physics of glass formation, and other materials stories that may be of interest for February 1, 2023.
Read MoreAsteroid-mining startup AstroForge to launch first space missions this year, science policy in 2023, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for January 30, 2023.
Read MoreFemtosecond lasers have led to great advances in micromachining capabilities, including for glass technologies. Now, researchers in France demonstrated the potential of a modified femtosecond laser approach based on burst pulses to drill crack-free holes in glass.
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