Glass

Asahi to manufacture new glass-ceramic substrate for $1.12B high-power LED market

By / June 24, 2010

Asahi Glass Co. says that in July it will be offering a new glass-ceramics substrate targeted at manufacturers of stronger, brighter LEDs (think residential, automotive and electronics, such as 3D…

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Knowledge of lithium, gold, rare earths in Afghanistan known even earlier than NYT reports

By / June 14, 2010

The New York Times story starts the timeline in the 1980s: “They soon learned that the data had been collected by Soviet mining experts during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan…

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Doesn’t this actually make Bolivia more important for the U.S.?

By / June 13, 2010

From the New York Times: “An internal Pentagon memo, for example, states that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium,” a key raw material in the manufacture of batteries…

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Video of the Week: Glass as a design material in electronics

By / June 9, 2010

Corning’s director of commercial technology, Paul Tompkins, was recently interviewed at the Future of Touch & Interactivity Conference, May 27 in Seattle, Wash. At the conference, Tompkins presented glass as…

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Flexible glass to challenge LCDs in electronic devices

By / June 8, 2010

Corning announced it has developed a flexible glass substrate that can be used for printed electronics applications. The glass manufacturer says the product performs like glass and is as flexible…

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iPhone 4 ceramic, glass materials update

By / June 7, 2010

Steve Jobs has been revealing feature after feature of Apples new iPhone for the past hour and it looks more loaded with glass and ceramic materials than I first anticipated.…

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New issue of glass applications & science journal published

By / June 7, 2010

The second edition of ACerS’ new International Journal of Applied Glass Science is out now online and should be in the mail to those that get it that way. The…

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Ceramic, glass content of Apple next-gen iPhone may be settled today

By / June 7, 2010

Apple’s Steve Jobs is set to officially unveil the new iPhone later today, and one of the continuing mysteries – the advanced ceramic and glass composition of the phone’s case…

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Nanoscale discovery said to open new possibilities for tiny glass electrodes in microfluidic devices

By / May 31, 2010

A team University of Michigan researchers say they have figured out a way to nondestructively use glass as an electrode in certain microfluidic devices. Alan Hunt, a biomedical engineering associate…

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Video of the week: Richard Brow on glass strength, phosphate glasses and the continuing allure of glass materials and applications

By / May 26, 2010

Richard Brow will tell you he likes everything about glass science, art and processing. Brow, an ACerS Fellow and Curator’s Professor of Ceramic Engineering at Missouri University of Science &…

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