EMA 2012: Beautiful weather beckoned conferees outdoors during the break. Credit: ACerS. 2013 will be a big year for big meetings, and January starts of with two of ACerS’ biggest:…
Read MoreBackground image: Molten glass. Credit: Michael Germann; Dreamstime.com. Peter and I thought it would be fun to share our five favorite posts from 2012. Finding that choosing only five was…
Read MoreCredit: von Dobschütz; Wikimedia. About this time every year, I pluck from my family’s central posting system—the refrigerator door—those precious expressions of their hearts’ desires: their Christmas lists. Even though I…
Read MoreWe have written numerous time in the past about the Materials Genome Initiative, which was launched in June 2011. Just to review, the MGI sets the goal of cutting in…
Read MoreResearchers create solar steam using nanoparticles at Rice University. Credit: Rice Univ. From Futurity.org: New technology that uses nanoparticles to convert solar energy directly into steam is so effective it…
Read MoreA photograph of ultrathin film α-Fe2O3 photoanodes in action. Credit: Rothschild; Technion If you think about it, water molecules are a great place to store hydrogen. Now that the “hydrogen…
Read MoreFigure 1. Synthetic sea shells. Credit: MaterialsViews; Wiley. Editor’s note: The other day I told you about a conference on bioinspired materials that I attended as a guest. In this…
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