If you had a chance to view anything under the most powerful microscope, what would it be? A flower? Rotting food? Lightning bug? An old toothbrush? Or, better yet, maybe…
Read MoreThe image above, my friends, is an example of a tiny tube of lead zirconate titanate that can be formed when you dip vermicelli into a slurry pf PZT. No,…
Read MoreCorning announced it has developed a flexible glass substrate that can be used for printed electronics applications. The glass manufacturer says the product performs like glass and is as flexible…
Read MoreSteve Jobs has been revealing feature after feature of Apples new iPhone for the past hour and it looks more loaded with glass and ceramic materials than I first anticipated.…
Read MoreThe second edition of ACerS’ new International Journal of Applied Glass Science is out now online and should be in the mail to those that get it that way. The…
Read MoreApple’s Steve Jobs is set to officially unveil the new iPhone later today, and one of the continuing mysteries – the advanced ceramic and glass composition of the phone’s case…
Read MoreU.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman announced the selection of a team led by Oak Ridge National Lab for an award of up to $122 million over five years…
Read MoreIn a recent interview with Nanowerk, Ayusman Sen, a professor at the Department of Chemistry at Penn State, explained how he uses titanium dioxide to convert optical energy to mechanical…
Read MoreTwo months ago, I wrote about how North Carolina State University’s Hans Conrad had apparently discovered that sintered ceramic materials could be deformed and shaped by applying an electric field.…
Read MoreNanoscale discovery said to open new possibilities for tiny glass electrodes in microfluidic devices
A team University of Michigan researchers say they have figured out a way to nondestructively use glass as an electrode in certain microfluidic devices. Alan Hunt, a biomedical engineering associate…
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