Ceramic Tech Today

Gorilla Glass is getting an upgrade, and so is your smartphone—to genius status

By April Gocha / July 1, 2014

Scientists at Corning Inc. and Polytechnique Montreal in Canada have debuted a new technology that will undoubtedly put see-through sensors right into the glass of your soon-to-be-smarter smartphone.

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News from the glass and refractory ceramics world

By P. Carlo Ratto / June 30, 2014

News from the glass and refractory ceramics world.

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Will a superelastic battery that can stretch up to 600 percent someday power our pants?

By Jessica McMathis / June 30, 2014

Researchers at China’s Fudan University have developed an incredibly elastic lithium-ion battery that can be stretched up to 600 percent.

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Launch your career at the Fourth Global Young Investigators Forum at Daytona Beach conference

By Jessica McMathis / June 27, 2014

The 4th Global Young Investigators Forum at ICACC is a good place to debut a career.

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Building stronger, lighter ceramic microstructures sans the diffraction limit

By April Gocha / June 27, 2014

Researchers from MIT and LLNL have busted the diffraction limit to development a new class of materials with unprecedented high strength and low density.

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By April Gocha / June 26, 2014

ORNL launches imaging institute, Corning supplies NASA, construction jobs are up, Samena considers RAK liquidation, and Morgan Advanced Materials finds its niche.

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ACerS President works out MOU with Brazilian Ceramic Society—Updated

By Eileen De Guire / June 25, 2014

Strengthening ties between The American Ceramic Society and ceramic societies of the Americas was a priority David Green set when he assumed the presidency of the Society.

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C-bus or bust: Global glass manufacturing community to connect at 75th GPC in Columbus

By Jessica McMathis / June 25, 2014

The Glass Problems Conference—the world’s largest glass manufacturing conference in North America—will bring together the global glass manufacturing and supplier communities in Ohio’s capital city November 3-6.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By April Gocha / June 25, 2014

Other materials stories that may be of interest for June 25, 2014.

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DOE accelerates energy research with $100 million in funding

By Jessica McMathis / June 24, 2014

The Department of Energy is fast-tracking the “scientific breakthroughs needed to build the 21st-century energy economy” by awarding $100 million to the country’s Energy Frontier Research Centers.

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