Ceramic Tech Today

Monday materials music

By / January 25, 2010

By homey Robert Pollard/Guided By Voices. He was everyone’s favorite 4th-grade teacher.

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Ford to pump $450M into battery technology for electric cars

By / January 25, 2010

Having just announced that they will be spending $550 million converting a Detroit SUV factory into a hybrid and electric vehicle factory, Ford Motors has announced a further investment of…

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Researchers build first nanodragster

By / January 24, 2010

Live Science reported that researchers have built a new super-small “nanodragster” that could speed up efforts to craft molecular machines. “We made a new version of a nanocar that looks…

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Energy innovation meeting coming up

By / January 23, 2010

It’s worth noting the ARPA-E has a big shindig coming March 1-3 in Washington, DC. Billed as the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, the event sounds like it’s something of a…

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DuPont completes $295M expansion for PV market

By / January 23, 2010

DuPont announced an investment of $175 million to complete the multi-phase expansion of its high-performance Tedlar PV2001 series oriented film production line. This investment is in addition to $120 million in…

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Danielson says ceramists have a home at ARPA-E

By / January 22, 2010

David Danielson, one of the project directors of DOE’ relatively new $400 million ARPA-E program gave today’s keynote presentation at the ACerS’ Electronic Materials and Applications conference. Danielson has a…

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Nanotechnology to improve efficiency and appearance of LEDs

By / January 22, 2010

In this struggling economy, businesses as well as the general populace are all struggling to do more with less. In the case of LED and nanotechnology, however, that may not be necessarily a…

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Northwestern University receives DoD funding for nanoelectronics

By / January 21, 2010

The Daily Northwestern reported that Northwestern University received $2.4 million in government funding to develop flash-memory devices with enhanced capacity for U.S. military and intelligence use. Allocated to NU’s Center…

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John Blottman on bioinspiration and jellyfish

By / January 21, 2010

I’m blogging now from ACerS’ Electronic Materials and Applications conference in Orlando, where it is a pleasant 70 degrees. Next week I shift over a few miles to Daytona Beach…

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Video of the week: Pantano links the art and science of glass

By / January 20, 2010

  ACerS member Carlo Pantano, director of the Materials Research Institute, and Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University, is a nationally known expert on the…

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