If you describe yourself as a ceramic engineer or ceramic scientist, you are willing to be different, and you probably have had the experience of explaining to lay folk (like…
Read MoreHere is my last batch of photos from Pittsburgh last week. We will be uploading more pictures on the ACerS homepage, too, in the coming days. Dawn A. Bonnell, from…
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Joel Moskowitz, founder and CEO of the Ceradyne Inc., is well respected as a successful entrepreneur and someone with great instincts about the business of advanced ceramic products. Moskowitz, who…
Read MoreThere were several pre-MS&T’12 events over the weekend before the mega-meeting’s official reception Sunday night, including the start of The American Ceramic Society’s Annual Meeting, a roundtable meeting of the…
Read MorePeter and I are in Pittsburgh, Pa., along with about 3,000 materials scientists, engineers, vendors and students for MS&T’12 and the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society. Here…
Read MoreScientists, engineers and even business people in the field of ceramics like to describe ceramics as an “enabling” material. What we typically mean is that often ceramic materials serve as…
Read MoreSinghal. Credit: PNNL. Congratulations go out to ACerS Fellow and Battelle Fellow Emeritus Subhash C. Singhal, who has been selected to be the upcoming president of the Washington State Academy…
Read MoreThe big business news this morning in the ceramics world is that 3M has made a friendly offer to buy Ceradyne Inc. with the blessing of the latter’s board of…
Read MoreA carbon fiber propped against a human hair. Was their “discovery” an accident? Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Have you ever wondered how carbon fibers were discovered? It turns out the guy…
Read MoreScreenshot of new online ceramicSOURCE homepage. It’s time for my annual plug for The American Ceramic Society’s great “marketplace” tool—the “ceramicSOURCE‘ directory. Actually, ceramicSOURCE is two nearly identical directories. The…
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