Ceramic Tech Today

U Dayton establishes new CETRASE thin-films center

By Eileen De Guire / May 17, 2013

Officials at the University of Dayton announced that the school has created a new research center focused on various thin-film investigations and applications. The initiative, dubbed the Center of Excellence in…

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Covaron gains $300,000 in seed-stage funding for thermosetting ceramics tech

By Eileen De Guire / May 15, 2013

A unique Michigan-based startup company that is attempting to leverage a proprietary method of what it describes as thermosetting ceramics is on something of a roll. Covaron Advanced Materials (formerly…

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A changing of the guard at ACerS—Peter retires, Jim signs on

By Eileen De Guire / May 14, 2013

There’s a new pen in town! For the last five years, ACerS Director of Communications Peter Wray has been the dominant voice of the engineered ceramics blogosphere. In fact, he…

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Ceramic matrix composites make inroads in aerospace

By Jim Destefani / May 14, 2013

Oxide CMC exhaust ground test demonstrator consists of a 1.60-m diameter nozzle and 1.14-m diameter × 2.34-m conical centerbody with titanium end cap inspection portal. Credit: Steyer; IJACT. Ceramic matrix…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Eileen De Guire / May 14, 2013

How graphene and friends could harness the Sun’s energy University of Manchester and National University of Singapore researchers have shown how building multi-layered heterostructures in a three-dimensional stack can produce…

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News from the glass and refractory ceramics worlds

By Eileen De Guire / May 13, 2013

• At meeting on May 3, the supervisory board of RHI AG approved a concept presented by the management board to adjust the production capacity in Europe to the growth…

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GSK drops ball with puzzling US release of Sensodyne ‘Repair & Protect’ sans 45S5 glass

By / May 12, 2013

Looking for innovative NovaMin/Bioglass active ingredient in Sensodyne Repair & Protect? US consumers will not find it in the toothpaste that just went on sale. Credit: ACerS. In the last…

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GSK drops ball with puzzling US release of Sensodyne ‘Repair & Protect’ sans 45S5 glass

By Eileen De Guire / May 12, 2013

Looking for innovative NovaMin/Bioglass active ingredient in Sensodyne Repair & Protect? US consumers will not find it in the toothpaste that just went on sale. Credit: ACerS. In the last…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Eileen De Guire / May 10, 2013

Morgan Advanced Materials highlights fire protection, wear and chemical corrosion resistant materials for offshore oil & gas applications at OTC 2013 Morgan Advanced Materials announces that it will be showcasing…

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Bistable graphene transistor with BN barrier developed

By Eileen De Guire / May 10, 2013

Schematic of tunnelling transistor based on vertical graphene heterostructures. Tunnelling current between two graphene layers can be controlled by gating. Credit: University of Manchester. The following story comes to us…

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