Ceramic Tech Today

Japan to end nuclear power by 2040; France plans to cut back

By / September 14, 2012

Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Rally on 19 September 2011 This is a bit of a surprise, and I have no idea how this will fully reverberate through the scientific and technical…

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Don’t wait in line for coffee: How to know where the business opportunity is

By Eileen De Guire / September 14, 2012

There are two ways to guess what the future holds: Gaze into the crystal ball or find a guide who knows the terrain. Credit: ACerS. At my office we have…

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NCSU, Eastman Chemical ink $10M materials research pact

By / September 14, 2012

Materials research is getting a nice shot in the arm with Eastman Chemical Co. and North Carolina State University reaching agreement on a new six-year, $10 million multidisciplinary research project. A joint…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Eileen De Guire / September 13, 2012

Here’s what we’re hearing: Morgan Thermal Ceramics offers manufacturing capability and engineering expertise for fired refractory shapes in metals market Morgan Thermal Ceramics announces the availability of fired refractory shapes,…

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ACerS & Wiley publishing update of classic overview, ‘The Magic of Ceramics’

By / September 12, 2012

The 2nd Edition of The Magic of Ceramics will begin shipping Oct. 9. Credit: ACerS; Wiley. In the late 1990s, David W. Richerson (with assistance from across the spectrum of…

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Manage your career with ‘content assets,’ but don’t ‘swear’ by them

By Eileen De Guire / September 12, 2012

Publish or perish is not just for academics, it turns out. Your content strategy represents your net worth to employers, according to a marketer who coaches professionals on the importance…

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Three new ACerS books on glass-ceramics, ceramic composites and fracture

By Eileen De Guire / September 12, 2012

Bookshelf at ACerS main office. What’s on your bookshelf? Credit: ACerS. I was a student for enough years that this time of year brings on an imprinted urge to own…

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New paper addresses causes of shattering glass cookware; margin of safety described as ‘borderline’

By Yoko Co / September 11, 2012

September 11, 2012 (click for PDF version of this release) WESTERVILLE, OH —A new paper appearing in the September 2012 edition of the Bulletin of The American Ceramic Society for…

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Breakthrough in understanding piezoelectric mechanism in Pb-free ferroelectrics

By Eileen De Guire / September 11, 2012

Applying a poling field (Epol) creates a rhombohedral (R)/tetragonal (T) morphotropic phase boundary in a single phase grain of (Bi½Na½)TiO3-6%BaTiO3. Such direct in-situ transmission electron microscopy observations led to the…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / September 11, 2012

Here is what we are hearing: Harper contracts with Orbite Aluminae for revolutionary high-purity alumina processing systems Harper International, world leader in thermal processing solutions for advanced materials, announced a…

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