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AECOM launching new UCSB nano sustainability initiative

By / March 31, 2009

Los Angeles-based AECOM has announced that one of its divisions, AECOM Environment, and the University of California at Santa Barbara are collaborating on a new Sustainable Nanotechnology Initiative that will…

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Three selected for national hypersonic centers

By / March 31, 2009

NASA’s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate and the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Office of Scientific Research have tapped the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Texas A&M University in College Station and…

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New hydrogen economy book available

By / March 30, 2009

The American Ceramic Society has just published a book on one of the most vibrant areas of energy research and development: Materials Innovations in an Emerging Hydrogen Economy (Ceramic Transactions…

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NIST, University of Colorado discover way to stabilize AFM measurements

By / March 30, 2009

NIST and the University of Colorado, operating together as the JILA*, may have just made life a little simpler for those engaged in nano-oriented research by making it easier to…

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Ceramics (MEMS) gets fingered

By / March 26, 2009

Apparently ceramics innovations can keep you on your toes – and keep track of your fingers. Florida-based Sonavation Inc. recently announced what they claim to be “the biometrics industry’s thinnest,…

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[Short Course] Fundamentals of Glass Science and Technology

By / March 25, 2009
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Video of the week – Electrospinning

By / March 25, 2009

In light of the previous post on the creation of platinum nanowires (as a low-cost fuel cell catalyst) via electrospinning, we stitched together an animation and several demonstrations of electrospinning…

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Fuel cells: Will a nanowire net cut catalyst costs?

By / March 25, 2009

One of the big divides the world of proton exchange fuel cell research is between those who are looking for an alternative to platinum (such as the University of Dayton’s…

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Unified International Technical Conference on Refractories 2013 (UNITECR 2013)

By / March 24, 2009

September 10-13, 2013 North American UNITECR Committee Tom Vert, Arcelor-Mittal Robert Crolius, The Refractories Institute Jeffrey Smith, Missouri University for Science & Technology Nancy Bunt, Kerneos Tentative Schedule Tuesday, September…

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ICC4-International Congress on Ceramics, incorporating Ceramic Leadership Summit 2012

By / March 24, 2009

Save the date! ~ July 15-19, 2012 “Bringing together today’s business leaders & materials professionals to create ceramic materials and technologies for tomorrow.” Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers 301 E.…

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