Hydrogen bonding contributes to the extreme flexibility of vanadium pentoxide paper made from high aspect ratio nanofibers. Credit: Burghard; Wiley. Last fall I wrote about a small, highly focused conference…
Read MoreSome recent new developments: Kyocera recognized for excellence by Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems for second consecutive year Kyocera America, Inc. was recognized by Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS)…
Read MoreOne of my favorite parts of the Sunday paper are the weekly New York Times best seller lists. (I’m partial to the nonfiction list.) I’ve been following the list since…
Read MoreWorld projected concrete demand. Credit: Karen Scrivener. Nature offers a new, free-access story by Ivan Amato that updates some of the efforts to lower CO2 emissions and the energy requirements…
Read MoreRobots setting unfired brick. Credit: John Hewitt; Interstate Brick. The first floor hallway of the Ceramic Engineering building at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is built in sections with…
Read MoreThe University of Bremen (Germany) today announced that it has €4.5 million in funding for a project to tailor porous advanced ceramics for applications in energy, environmental, chemical engineering and…
Read MoreSchematic diagram of one tile of solar reactor. Fifteen tiles arranged in a funnel shape comprise a solar reactor capable of reaching temperatures approaching 2,000 K, enough to dissociate zinc…
Read MoreElsewhere on the materials front: Microscopic dendrites a focus in Boeing Dreamliner probe (Wall Street Journal) Aviation safety investigators are examining whether the formation of microscopic structures known as dendrites…
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