Demonstration of the flexibility of cellulose–silica composite aerogel. Credit: J. Cai et al.; Angewandte Chemie. This sounds like the type of breakthrough aerogel fans have yearning for. A newly published paper…
Read MoreFramework for new report by a committee of the National Research Council for the National Academies. Credit: NRC. Nano environmental health and safety is clearly an important topic and one…
Read MoreSome of the German delegation of participants in the first Global Young Investigators Forum at ICACC. Thomas Fisher (third from left) was the principle organizer of the forum. The 36th…
Read MoreThe Florida-based Boca Bearing Co., a maker of ceramic ball bearings, announced that it will celebrate its 25th year in business by giving away over $20,000 in cash and prizes…
Read MoreBeautiful weather in Orlando, Fla. beckoned these attendees at the Electronic Materials and Applications meeting. The 2012 Electronic Materials and Applications meeting opened yesterday in Orlando, Fla. This is the…
Read MoreArtist’s rendering of mirror arrangement for Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile. Credit: GMT. “Mirror, mirror on the wall/Who’s the best mirror maker of them all?” In the story of Snow…
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The 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 MoreBre Pretis, CEO of MakerBot demonstrates a rapid prototype manufacturing process for printing objects. Credit: Time. 3D printing is a relatively new but no longer unusual process for materials scientists…
Read MoreTypical SEM images of (a) N-TiO2-cotton and (b) AgI-N-TiO2-cotton. Reprinted with permission from ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, DOI: 10.1021/am201251d. Copyright 2011 American Chemical Society. A recent press release from the…
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