BioPontis Alliance’s business model. Credit: BioPontis Alliance. I don’t know how generic the situation is (but I suspect it’s similar in materials fields), but a story in Nature Biotechnology—”New models…
Read MoreCustom-built oxide molecular beam epitaxy system at Yale. Credit: CRISP. The National Science Foundation has awarded a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center grant of $13 million to a Yale…
Read MoreHere’s what we are hearing: DOE finalizes $150 million loan guarantee to 1366 Technologies to drive down manufacturing costs and make American solar more competitive Materials characterization company Malvern offering…
Read MoreOctoberfest in Germany. Credit: senator86; Wikepedia, Creative Commons license It’s September, which means Octoberfest season is almost here. Ever wonder what really makes those delicious brews? I just came across…
Read MoreTransphorm, one of the companies that will be receiving ARPA-E and private investment funding, uses gallium nitride transistors to tackle the current level of power conversion losses (10%). Credit: Energy…
Read MoreCredit: “Materials Genome Initiative for Global Competitiveness.” In a timely addition to the agenda, the organizers of the upcoming Materials Science & Technology 2011 conference have announced that the new…
Read MoreLarge-format lithium-ion battery displayed at 2010 Paris Motor Show. Credit: Dow Kokam. Coincidentally, there is another news item out of Oak Ridge National Lab, this one regarding a new $5.5…
Read MoreCredit: MSNBC; Corning Inc. The video below is a recent production of MSNBC’s Future of Technology series. It covers both familiar ground, such as the glass cubes that project out…
Read MoreHere’s what we are hearing: New process viscometer catalog from Brookfield Brookfield Engineering Laboratories is pleased to offer a brand new 24 page, full-color Process Control Viscometer Catalog. This catalog,…
Read MoreArtist’s rendition of DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2 hypersonic aircraft. Credit: DARPA. It’s not often that the latest issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society to hit the newsstands…
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