The scientist featured in this video is M. Saiful Islam from the Department of Chemistry, University of Bath (U.K.), who provides a overview on the operations of a solid oxide fuel cell and describes how his computer-based modeling techniques differ from lab-oriented approaches.
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A classic experiment/weird experience in materials science, rheology, shear stress, strain rate, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics – and gooey fun: the Oobleck Run, AKA (with a great deal of hyperbole) “walking on water.”
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One tradition of The American Ceramic Society’s annual meetings and the coinciding MS&T conferences is the student mug drop competition, and this video shows some of the competition from 2008. Read More
This is a good example of a student-made film about a materials program. This one is about the Industrial Ceramics Engineering Technology program at the college located in southern Ohio.
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This video is part of our ongoing efforts to collect videos that document some of the basic methods used in industrial ceramics.
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Researchers at MIT have developed a novel way to concentrate sunlight for solar cells that doesn’t involve mirrors and tracking mechanisms.
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Ceramic ball bearings are saving energy and reducing the use of petroleum-based lubricants.
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