Ceramic Tech Today

Solid job growth expected for engineers

By Eileen De Guire / June 15, 2011

Relative job growth trends for engineers from Indeed.com. The Indeed.com search engine searches openings at thousands of job sites. Credit: Indeed.com The Society for Automotive Engineers just released a survey-based…

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Ceramics and glass business news this week

By / June 14, 2011

Here’s what we are hearing: Nanocerox expands Manufacturing and Research & Development operations by 20% to meet continued market demands The company recently announced an expansion of the manufacturing and…

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The Energy Race and the search for commodity catalyst materials

By Eileen De Guire / June 14, 2011

Illustration of the way the electronic configuration of metal ions can control the activity of metal oxides for oxygen reduction, varying it by a factor of at least 10,000 times.…

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Science communications gets fresh (and smart) down under

By / June 13, 2011

Can you explain your research to a coworker? That’s probably fairly easy. How about your spouse? Or your parents? Get’s a little trickier, doesn’t it? But, of course, they know…

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Materials stories that may also be of interest

By / June 10, 2011

Check ‘em out: Three Mercedes-Benz hydrogen cell vehicles have successfully completed their 30,000-kilometer F-CELL World Drive Stealthy chip startup’s technology is a big power play GE combines natural gas, wind and…

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$70M available from DOE for cost-cutting geothermal tech proposals

By / June 9, 2011

DOE artist concept of enhanced geothermal system. Source: EERE/DOE. The Department of Energy just announced that it has $70 million to spend on proposals for technology advancements that can accelerate…

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Follow up: Chalcogenide phase-change memory materials for high-speed, low-power data storage

By Eileen De Guire / June 9, 2011

I’ve received some follow-up information from Gang Chen, whose work on phase-change memory chalcogenide materials I wrote about earlier this week. He provided some numbers that illustrate the potential for…

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New paint pigment for ceramic tiles can cool Thai roofs by 2°C

By / June 8, 2011

Houses in Thailand typically have steep roofs and may benefit from new, cooler ceramic tile pigment. Credit: Wikipedia. A two-degree temperature drop in room temperature may not sound like a…

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IAEA releases preliminary report on Fukushima nuclear accident

By Eileen De Guire / June 8, 2011

Satellite image of tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Credit: Digital Globe; Wikipedia. Last week the UN International Atomic Energy Agency released a preliminary report from its fact finding mission…

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Video of the week: Richard Bradt’s “A fracture mechanics view of the practical strength of glass”

By / June 8, 2011

[flash https://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/bradt_strength_of_glass.flv mode=1 f={image=/ceramictechtoday/wp-content/video/bradt_strength_of_glass.jpg}] Organizers of the Glass & Optical Materials Division’s 2011 meeting invited veteran materials engineer Richard C. Bradt to address the topic of glass strength. Bradt, the…

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