Emerging Objects’ Cool Brick combines age-old cooling system with 21st century technology to produce a 3-D printed brick that can cool a room with water.
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Watch this informative video from The Refractories Institute, “Taming the Flame,” to learn all about how refractories make it possible.
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Inside Fuyao’s new glass factory, Samsung’s three-sided smartphone screen, advanced ceramics are into curling, and more ceramics and glass business news of the week for February 20, 2015.
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The March issue of the ACerS Bulletin—now available online—is heating things up with a theme centered on all things refractories.
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Researchers at the Queensland Micro- and Nanotechnology Centre (QMNC) at Griffith University (Australia) have shown that silicon carbide’s “superiority” in not-so-superior conditions make the compound a promising substitute for silicon semiconductors in devices with mechanical and electrical sensors.
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GE’s flexible factory, mapping crystal deformation for forensics, and other materials stories that may be of interest for February 18, 2015.
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Engineers Week 2015, February 22–28, is an opportunity to reinforce our commitment to promoting the impact of ceramic and glass materials, as well as the people who work with them.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have pioneered a new imaging method that is allowing them to peer inside a material’s atomic organization to precisely map the location of distortions, a unique perspective that is allowing them to see how those distortions affect the material’s properties.
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When it comes to budget time, every one is a winner—that is, until they’re not. For now, that means big wins for science and technology in President Barack Obama’s proposed $2.63-trillion Fiscal Year 2016 budget.
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