Ceramic Tech Today

Moskowitz speaks on Ceradyne–3M deal, his future with 3M and his Distinguished Life Member award

By / October 12, 2012

Joel Moskowitz, founder and CEO of the Ceradyne Inc., is well respected as a successful entrepreneur and someone with great instincts about the business of advanced ceramic products. Moskowitz, who…

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NSF to fund $12M for first ‘designing materials’ DMREF awards in support of MGI

By / October 12, 2012

In support of the federal Materials Genome Initiative, the NSF has just announced the first projects to receive funding awards under a new “materials by design” initiative, which goes by…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / October 11, 2012

Here’s what we are hearing: Morgan Ceramics promotes efficiencies in Asia’s power sector through next-gen thermal insulation solutions and precision-engineering capabilities Morgan Ceramics, a division of Morgan Crucible Co., one…

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Scenes (pt. 2) from the ACerS Annual Meeting and MS&T’12

By / October 10, 2012

There were several pre-MS&T’12 events over the weekend before the mega-meeting’s official reception Sunday night, including the start of The American Ceramic Society’s Annual Meeting, a roundtable meeting of the…

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Scenes from the 114th ACerS Annual Meeting and MS&T’12 in Pittsburgh

By Eileen De Guire / October 9, 2012

Peter and I are in Pittsburgh, Pa., along with about 3,000 materials scientists, engineers, vendors and students for MS&T’12 and the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society. Here…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Eileen De Guire / October 8, 2012

We are at MS&T this week and a little busier than usual. We hope to bring back lots of news and information to tell you about. Meanwhile, here are a…

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A tale of two nitrides: Corrosion and damage protection coatings for tool steels

By Eileen De Guire / October 8, 2012

Schematic illustrations of micro-sized pores (structural defects) in (a) CrN- and (b) TiSiN-coated steels immersed in a corrosive solution. Micro-sized particles also exist in both types of coatings, in this…

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NSF funding could make ceramic-based disease-monitoring breathalyzers a reality

By Eileen De Guire / October 7, 2012

One day soon, this circuit board could be a handheld breathalyzer. Credit: Gouma; SUNT Stony Brook. Perena Gouma‘s dream of developing breathalyzers for noninvasive health monitoring is on the path…

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The science of ‘ings’: ARO seeking proposals to accelerate manufacturing process science

By / October 7, 2012

From the Army Research Office, Materials Science Division: A major opportunity to enable efficient manufacturing of advanced materials lies in the discovery and critical understanding of the fundamental physical laws…

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News from the glass and refractory worlds

By P. Carlo Ratto / October 7, 2012

• Japanese electronics company Hitachi has unveiled slivers of glass that can store digital information for millions of years. The company said the slivers of quartz glass can endure extreme temperatures…

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