This video shows the 3D printing process used to fabricate ceramic espresso coffee cups designed by Bernat Cuní. Credit: Shapeways; YouTube. Additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping technologies are gaining ground…
Read MoreThe fluid dynamics of wine swirling—orbital shaking—could extend to mixing and oxygenation in bioreactors for biopharmaceuticals manufacture. Credit: Farhat, et al.; YouTube. Even those of us who are not oenophiles—wine…
Read MoreLow-temperature SOFCs: (A) Functionally graded bismuth oxide (Electrolyte 1) / ceria (Electrolyte 2) can allow use of hydrocarbon fuels at the anode at reduced temperatures. (B) Estimation of power output…
Read MoreIntegrally cored ceramic mold fabricated by ceramic stereolithography. The vertical cross-section on the left shows the core and shell parts. Five horizontal cross-sections of individual layers in the build-up are…
Read MoreCredit: Wachsman et al.; Energy & Environmental Science. No. Will it anyway? Unfortunately, it looks that way, based on the DOE’s 2012 budget request (pdf), which hacks off 41 percent…
Read MoreThe details on this are a little skimpy at this point, however the DOE caught my attention this afternoon when it announced that a “first-of-its-kind” online search tool for materials…
Read MoreFlat windows chop up the smooth contours of this Gehry-designed health center. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany have developed an economical process for bending large sheets of glass.…
Read MoreNSF director Subra Suresh (above) reported during the MS&T11 plenary session that the next step in getting out information about MGI funding opportunities would come in the “Dear Colleague Letter.”…
Read MoreA glass stamp reproduces precise, nanometer-scale etchings in silver. This original engraving is 10 microns wide – less than a quarter of the diameter of a human hair. Credit: Kyle…
Read MoreInk jet head. Credit: Wikipedia; Creative Commons license Ink jet printing techniques are applied with an increasing number of materials. In particular, solid freeform fabrication (SFF) methods for ceramic materials…
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