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There could be a virus in your battery

By RussJordan / June 7, 2009

But don’t worry. It is a common bacteriophage. It can infect bacteria but is harmless to humans. You might find this virus someday in the battery of your plug-in hybrid…

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Europium’s superconductivity discovered

By / June 7, 2009

A duo from Washington University in St. Louis reports they have for the first time found a way to tap superconductivity properties of europium. In work funded by the materials…

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Air-lithium battery in the works?

By / June 7, 2009

Using something of the same concept behind zinc-air batteries, a group of scientists in the UK have attained a proof-of-concept version of a lithium-air battery that they say could significantly…

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New method for dating ceramic materials

By / June 7, 2009

Carbon dating has been used for decades to provide accurate ages of ancient organic materials. Now archeologists have a similar – and fairly simple – technique for accurately dating heat-fired…

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[Endorsed Meeting] Second International Symposium on Advanced Ceramics and Technology for Sustainable Energy Applications

By Nick Schafer / June 5, 2009
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[Endorsed Meeting] The Third International Conference on the Characterization and Control of Interfaces for High Quality Advanced Materials, and Joining Technology for New Metallic Glasses and Inorganic Materials

By Nick Schafer / June 5, 2009
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[Endorsed Meeting] 17th Conference on Solid State Ionics (SSI-17)

By Nick Schafer / June 5, 2009

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[Endorsed Meeting] The Fred Glasser Cement Science Symposium

By Nick Schafer / June 5, 2009
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Login or Join

By / June 4, 2009

You must be a member of The American Ceramic Society to view this content. Login or join today. To learn more about all ACerS has to offer, review the new…

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BSD Secretary Nominees

By / June 2, 2009

Brian Derby Professor of Materials Science, University of Manchester, School of Materials, Manchester, UK Education: BA: Natural Sciences (Metallurgy and Materials Science), University of Cambridge, UK (1978). Ph.D: Metallurgy and…

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