The Materials Genome Initiative aspires to reduce by half the time from materials discovery to manufacture. Credit: MGI; OSTP. The Materials Genome Initiative turned two yesterday, and the White…
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The brick-and-mortar pattern of MIT’s simulated bone and nacre material doesn’t look much like the real thing. Credit: M. Buehler/MIT; photo by Graham Bratzel. For an observer of science and…
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• Siemens is set to close its Israeli solar power division, having failed to find a buyer. It only bought Solel Solar Systems in 2009, but has lost close to €1…
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Just for fun, we delved into the ACerS Bulletin archives and found this cartoon from the March 1954 issue. Enjoy and have a great weekend!
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Micro Li-ion battery (SEM view above) is manufactured using 3D printing to deposit anode and cathode materials (red and purple, respectively) on gold contacts. The stack is then encased and electrolyte…
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Corning’s Willow Glass will be available by the end of 2013 or early 2014; possibly heading to Apple’s iWatch At Bloomberg’s June 17 Next Big Thing Summit, Corning’s Waguih Ishak,…
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Rig for drilling multiple horizontal wells in the Marcellus Shale formation of Pennsylvania. Credit: Ruhrfish/Wikimedia Commons. In western Pennsylvania, in eastern Ohio, in Texas and Oklahoma, from Colorado to Arkansas…
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A diagram of proposed new solar panel design. The top layer of each photovoltaic cell is a conventional photo electrode. While most electrons flow out of the device to support…
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Lane Martin will be one of the speakers at a NSF-sponsored workshop for young faculty in August. Credit: ACerS. In a few weeks—August 13–14— the National Science Foundation’s…
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Discovered at Argonne National Laboratory, materials that expand under pressure contain large, fluid-filled pores that may enable their use as filter or storage materials. Credit: Argonne. Various types of ceramic…
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