For those of us living in the snow-prone regions of the US, potholes are a fact of life (and a source of great happiness for tire retailers). City and county…
Read More[flash http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/droplet_jaeger_uChi.flv mode=1 f={image=http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/droplet_jaeger_uChi.jpg}] Credit: Miskin and Jaeger; PNAS. Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it … I realize this brief video doesn’t appear to be doing anything…
Read MoreÉireComposites’ new large-blade tooling uses alternating layers of ceramic cement and carbon fiber/PEEK, with embedded heating elements. Credit: ÉireComposites. Check ’em out: Direct influence of residual stress on the bending…
Read MoreThis video comes courtesy of our colleagues at MaterialsViews.com and Wiley’s Hope Inman. MaterialsViews has been experimenting with some new types of online presentations of various papers published in Wiley’s…
Read MoreSeveral times last week when participants in the MCARE meeting were looking at and test-driving the Chevy Volt, the question came up, “What happens to electric vehicle batteries when they…
Read MoreSteve Jung made the above presentation at ACerS’ Glass and Optical Materials Division 2011 annual meeting and conference. The video is about 15 minutes long. If you tend toward squeamishness,…
Read MoreCredit: Ainissa Ramirez, Yale; YouTube. Science “popularizer” and Yale associate professor Ainissa Ramirez alerted us that she has added two new videos to her Material Marvels collection of short introductory…
Read MoreAn armorlike arapaima fish scale resists being fractured by a piranha tooth that is slowly pressed into it. In fact, it is the tooth that fails. Credit: Meyers Group: Credit:…
Read MoreThe Materials Genome Initiative is a multi-stakeholder effort to develop an infrastructure that will accelerate materials discovery and deployment. President Barack Obama unveiled the MGI in July 2011 as a…
Read MoreI’ve been following the news coverage of the annual Consumer Electronic Show held last week in Las Vegas, and it appears that a lot of writers were underwhelmed by what…
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