Materials & Innovations

3D printing reaches the final materials frontier—Micron3DP innovates in glass

By April Gocha / July 22, 2015

Micron3DP, a 3-D printing company that develops and builds all-metal extruders, has now successfully experimented with advanced 3-D printing methods for what may be the final frontier in 3-D printed materials: glass.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By April Gocha / July 22, 2015

Ultrathin molecular nanowires, smart cap detects spoiled milk, and other materials stories that may be of interest for July 22, 2015.

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Time-to-market gap for commercially viable graphene in electronic applications may be narrowing

By Stephanie Liverani / July 21, 2015

Commercially viable graphene may be out of the lab and into our electronics sooner than we think. Physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, present a graphene-based wideband microphone and a related ultrasonic radio that can be used for wireless communication with easy-to-scale-up technology.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By April Gocha / July 21, 2015

A material that conducts and insulates, exploding new materials, and other materials stories that may be of interest for July 21, 2015.

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Nanocatalyst-coated ceramic filter converts smoke filled air into water vapor and carbon dioxide

By April Gocha / July 16, 2015

Researchers at Korea Institute of Science and Technology have developed a non-smokers dream—a nanocatalyst that alleviates air of carcinogens and particulates from cigarette smoke.

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Nanostructuring glass–ceramics controls their electromagnetic properties

By April Gocha / July 14, 2015

Researchers at Technische Universität Wien have developed a simple nanostructuring technique that can precisely control the electromagnetic behavior of glass–ceramic circuit boards.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By April Gocha / July 14, 2015

Zeolites’ active sites get steamed, watch shockwaves through diamond, and other materials stories that may be of interest for July 14, 2015.

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Sandia’s falling particle receiver drops ceramics like they’re hot, because they are

By April Gocha / July 10, 2015

Scientists at Sandia National Laboratory have mounted a new falling ceramic particle receiver at the lab’s thermal test facility to measure the utility of ceramic particles to efficiently collect and store solar energy.

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Charting the future by mapping the past: Visualizing the evolution of ceramic research

By April Gocha / July 8, 2015

In a new paper published in the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, authors Sylvain Deville and Adam J. Stevenson provide a visual evolution of ceramics research through data mining of bibliographic records.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By April Gocha / July 8, 2015

Another insight into glass formation, methane conversion by copper zeolites, and other materials stories that may be of interest for July 8, 2015.

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