This video shows the process developed by MesoCoat (Euclid, Ohio) to clad the interior surface of carbon steel pipe with a corrosion-resistant stainless steel layer. The company celebrated a “grand…
Read More“Honeycomb” monolith diesel exhaust filter on left compared to Empa’s ceramic foam substrate filter, right. Credit: Empa. By this time next year, Europe will be enforcing a tough, new standard…
Read MoreCredit: Marco Cologna & Rishi Raj, Univ. of Colorado. Words such as “novel” and “revolutionary” get thrown around fairly frequently in science and engineering circles, but the still-young technique of…
Read MoreDavid Willetts’ speech on the eight-part strategic technology roadmap for the UK. Credit EPSRC. The United Kingdom’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) announced that seeks proposals to fund…
Read MoreOfficial video (in German) of STO In Aevero aerogel insulation boards. Credit: STO. One of the promises of your basic silica-based aerogel is that it would make a fantastic component…
Read MoreStrategic Materials Advisory Council cautions DOD against stockpiling Chinese rare earths The Strategic Materials Advisory Council has cautioned the Department of Defense to avoid the risky mitigation strategy of stockpiling…
Read MoreSEM cross-section and top-down surface images of a-Fe2O3 films prepared by PMOD, followed by a 1 hour annealing step in air at Tanneal = 100°, 400°, or 600°C. Credit: Smith…
Read MoreThermo-Calc Software releases new version of its computational thermodynamics software Thermo-Calc Software AB announced the release of Thermo-Calc 3.0, which constitutes the third generation of its popular computational thermodynamics software.…
Read More(a) Photograph of new UFAs with diverse shapes; (b) a 100 cm3 cylinder standing on a flower like “dog’s tail”; (c) a ~1000 cm3 pie pan-shaped cylinder (21 cm in diameter…
Read MoreWhere are the ceramics? We are pleased to see NAMII make seven significant additive manufacturing R&D awards, but it appears that they are all for polymers or metals. Credit: LBL.…
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