Materials & Innovations

MCARE: Power and posters

By / February 28, 2012

Tuesday was the first full day of symposia at the MCARE 2012 meeting going on Clearwater Beach, Fla. Credit: ACerS. The first full day of symposia and tutorials took place…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / February 28, 2012

Check ’em out: CMOS-based carbon nanotube pass-transistor logic integrated circuits (Nature Communications) Field-effect transistors based on carbon nanotubes have been shown to be faster and less energy consuming than their…

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Tailored piezoelectric nanostructures via “soft template infiltration”

By / February 23, 2012

SEM images of the PZT nanotube arrays, all with outer diameters of approximately 100 nanometers. The hexagonal patterns are approximately three microns wide. Credit: Ashley Bernal and Nazanin Bassiri-Gharb. Investigators…

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UAB group demonstrates techniques to electrospin improved 3D tissue engineering scaffolds

By / February 17, 2012

3D technology builds better body parts from uabnews on Vimeo. We’ve covered electrospinning extensively in The Bulletin, which of course isn’t limited to ceramic materials. A lot of the basics…

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Towards MGI, DOE allocates $12M for software groups, ‘glue’ funding

By / February 11, 2012

Credit: DOE Basic Energy Sciences. Friday afternoon, Cyrus Wadia posted a notice on the blog of the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy that the DOE is planning…

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Can a fish in the Amazon inspire ‘flexible’ ceramics?

By / February 10, 2012

An 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:…

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‘Shaping the Future of Ceramics’ is theme of international congress in Chicago this July

By Eileen De Guire / February 10, 2012

[flash https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/faberfinal.flv w=480 h=208 preview=force mode=1 f={image=https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/poster-image.jpg}] Katherine Faber, president of the 4th International Congress on Ceramics, on “Shaping the Future of Ceramics.” Credit: ACerS. I really enjoy going to…

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Monday morning quarterbacking: A materials review of Super Bowl XLVI

By Eileen De Guire / February 6, 2012

GE’s Super Bowl commercial features engineers making power plant turbines that “make the power that makes the beer.” Credit: GE; NFL. So, the Super Bowl is all about three things:…

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The ‘Pitch Drop’ experiment is one for the generations

By Eileen De Guire / February 3, 2012

Screenshot from live webcam of the “Pitch Drop Experiment” at the University of Queensland in Australia. The experiment, begun in 1927, demonstrates the fluid nature of tar pitch at room…

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National Research Council names 16 tech priorities for NASA

By Eileen De Guire / February 3, 2012

Space Shuttle Atlantis at liftoff in Feb. 2001 on a mission to deliver the module, Destiny, to the ISS. Development of lightweight materials for spacecraft of the future will reduce…

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