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Ceramic and glass business news of the week for December 14, 2020

By Lisa McDonald / December 14, 2020

CeramTec expands piezoceramic competence center, DOE Office of Energy Efficiency launches new portal for funding opportunities, and more ceramic and glass business news of the week for December 14, 2020.

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ACerS member builds professional network through career contacts, ACerS Division involvement

By Faye Oney / May 1, 2020

In an interview with John Dowdle, an ACerS member since the mid-1980s, he discusses how his involvement in the Structural Clay Products Division has led to many networking opportunities and new business contacts.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / April 1, 2020

Crumpled graphene makes ultra-sensitive cancer DNA detector, superconductivity in meteorites, and other materials stories that may be of interest for April 1, 2020.

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More than 400 converge on San Antonio for Glass and Optical Materials Division Annual Meeting

By Eileen De Guire / May 25, 2018

ACerS Glass and Optical Materials Division welcomed a record 410 people from 25 countries to the 2018 conference in San Antonio, Texas. Four full days of technical programming, award lectures, the L. David Pye festschrift, student activities, and business meetings made for a high-energy conference.

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Rethinking optical fiber glasses and what it will take to pump more data into our phones

By Eileen De Guire / January 15, 2018

Optical fiber networks form the backbones of wireless communication and data transmission, but scattering nonlinearities limit transmission. A series of four new open-access papers introduce a unified materials approach to finding new and better optical fiber glasses without intrinsic nonlinearities.

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Successful poster session at HTCMC 9, GFMAT 2016 in Toronto, Canada

By Eileen De Guire / July 1, 2016

The HTCMC-GFMAT poster session was outstanding and provided an excellent opportunity for many researchers to present their most recent work with each other.

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The Ceramic and Glass Industry Foundation launches network aimed at continuing ceramic and glass education

By Stephanie Liverani / November 20, 2015

The Ceramic and Glass Industry Foundation has launched a new initiative—the University-Industry Network, a program that focuses on encouraging schools around the world to align more closely with industry as they continue teaching key concepts in ceramic and glass science.

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World’s refractories experts convene in Vienna for Unitecr 2015

By Eileen De Guire / September 18, 2015

I’ve been in Vienna, Austria, attending the 14th Unified International Technical Conference on Refractories (Unitecr). It’s been a great conference in a great city with interesting people working on challenging problems.

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International Year of Light puts spotlight on optics, photonics, and sustainable development

By Jessica McMathis / February 3, 2015

The United Nations declared 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies—a global initiative to spread awareness of the ways optical technologies promote sustainability and address growing global challenges concerning energy, health, and more.

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4 lectures not to miss at MS&T14—Rethinking optical fiber: New demands, old glasses

By Jessica McMathis / October 1, 2014

In the weeks leading up to Materials Science and Technology 2014, we preview four lectures not to miss. Today: Rethinking optical fiber: New demands, old glasses.

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