From left, David Bem, Athanasios Konstandopoulos and Gary Calabrese. As ICC4 president Katherine Faber noted last week in her video invitation to the July 15-19 event in Chicago, the congress is designed…
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Read MoreNikhil Gupta, associate professor in the Polytechnic Institute of New York University Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, is developing a new generation of ceramic brakes to be used in mass-market…
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Read MoreHonda Civic test vehicles. The higher solar reflectance of the solar vehicle makes it more fuel efficient than its black cousin. Credit: EETD; LBNL If you’ve had the experience of…
Read MoreUltraTemp is GreenCell’s core ceramic composite technology. Credit: GreenCell. Here’s what we’re hearing (some info from news releases): ASD and Sacmi: A new partnership focussing on quality As part of…
Read MoreHere’s what we are hearing: Duo’s chemistry makes it possible: natural gas produced from biomass H.C. Starck and Clausthaler Umwelttechnik-Institut (Germany) have joined forces to successfully develop a completely new…
Read MoreSEM image of Dysprosium hydroxyfluoride fibers. Credit: PPNL. A few days ago, Xinhua News agency reported that three rare earth mining districts near Ganzhou city have been order to halt…
Read MoreCheck ’em out: NIST: Iron ‘veins’ are secret of promising new hydrogen storage material With plutonium-238 supplies running low, the race is on to find new power sources for spacecraft…
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