According to a press release, Launchpoint Technologies received American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to develop advanced control techniques for the operation of high-speed, high-efficiency, energy storage flywheels. Energy storage…
Read MoreWhen you are in the solar cell business (polycrystalline silicon) or semiconductor business (monocrystalline), silicon ingots and boules – the source of your vital wafers – can be a considerable…
Read MoreVia the state-run Third Frontier technology development program, the Ohio Department of Development has announced that it is seeking $27 million worth of “requests for proposals” for its 2010 fiscal…
Read MoreThe Charleston Gazette reports that seventy workers at a ceramics factory in Buckhannon, W.Va., will lose their jobs by the end of September. The Saint-Gobain ceramics facility announced that poor…
Read MoreThere should be great joy in the United States’ materials engineering community today. The DOE just released an awardee list of advanced battery manufacturing, deployment, testing and recycling projects it…
Read MoreIn its final round of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act-based awards, the DOE says it is going to provide money for science research projects at 10 federal labs and schools.…
Read MoreA press release shared by researchers at Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) reports that they have come up with a way to separate the electrolytes…
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Porosity is sometimes thought of as a flaw in ceramic materials, but, as Paolo Colombo explains, porosity can also be used to add new functionality to a material. Colombo, who…
Read MoreAccording to a Technology Review story, a Canadian start-up company, General Fusion, is building on two decade-old research and advances in digital processing, using a fusion approach that is based…
Read MoreThe two house of Congress passed their own versions of the Energy and Water appropriations bill that includes Department of Energy funding. Now the bill will go to committee before…
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