Biomaterials

Mo-Sci licenses SRNL’s porous, drug delivering microballoons

By / December 17, 2009

The DOE has just announced that a licensing agreement has been reached between Savannah River National Lab and specialty glass provider Mo-Sci Corp. The Missouri-based Mo-Sci will use SRNL’s unique…

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Video of the week: 2009 Friedberg Memorial Lecture: ‘Ceramics in a 21st Century Materials World’ by Gary Fischman

By / December 9, 2009

Gary Fischman, director of National Academies’ boards dealing with Materials, Manufacturing and Infrastructure, was the 2009 Arthur L. Friedberg Memorial Lecturer at the recent ACerS Annual Meeting and MS&T’09 conference.…

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Video of the week: Jack Mecholsky on using fractal geometry to study ceramic materials

By / November 27, 2009

John (Jack) Mecholsky is a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Florida. Mecholsky is also past member of the ACerS Board of…

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Thermoreversible gelcasting and lamination

By / October 7, 2009

The current issue of the International Journal of Applied Ceramic Technology reports on a Northwestern University group’s work related to using improved gelcasting techniques that allow new possibilities for manufacturing…

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New ceramic-based insulin delivery system reported

By / September 28, 2009

What may be a new and effective alternative to insulin injections is being reported in a paper (subscription required) to published in an online edition of ACerS’ International Journal of…

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University of Pennsylvania’s Nano/Bio Center scoops $11.5M NSF grant

By / September 22, 2009

Good news came yesterday to the Nano/Bio Interface Center at the University of Pennsylvania when it learned it won an $11.5 million grant from the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Centers…

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Case Western researcher bites into crown failures

By / September 21, 2009

Jin-Ho Phark, an assistant professor at the Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, says he has figured out a way to make ceramic crowns adhere better for dental…

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Green algae harnessed to make paper-based batteries

By / September 11, 2009

A press release from Uppsala University, Sweden, claims that a group of researchers at the Ångström Laboratory have discovered that the distinctive cellulose nanostructure of Cladophora algae can serve as…

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Video of the week – Aldo Boccaccini on the vitrification of hazardous wastes, bioglass and electrophoretic deposition

By / August 26, 2009

Aldo Boccaccini is a professor in materials science at Imperial College, U.K. and a member of the London Center for Nanotechnology, a joint project between Imperial College and University College,…

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Video of the week – Del Day on treating cancer with glass microspheres

By / August 19, 2009

Del Day, the Curators’ Professor Emeritus of Missouri University of Science and Technology, discusses his work in the field of bioglass. Day, a former president of ACerS, has spent several…

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