DARPA

Self-oscillating gels, DARPA worms and spontaneous self-aggregation

By / January 15, 2013

This has little to do with ceramics or glass—but everything to do with the biggest “What in the world…” moment I have had in a long, long time.” I will…

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DARPA #2: Agency seeks revolutionary approach for controlling sepsis

By / May 25, 2012

DARPA believes finding a transformational response to sepsis is key to saving warfighter lives. Credit: DARPA. I know from an unfortunate experience with a family member that sepsis is a…

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DARPA #1: Agency seeks multidisciplinary research proposals for ‘local control of materials synthesis’ (LoCo)

By / May 24, 2012

Energy ≠ heat: DARPA seeks nonthermal approaches to thin-film deposition. Credit: DARPA. DARPA has issued a notice saying they are seeking proposals related to developing low-temperature processes for the deposition…

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DARPA says hypersonic vehicles need better high-temp materials data; UCSB team shows how to measure strain at high-temps

By Eileen De Guire / April 24, 2012

Distributions of surface height and in-plane strain of an angle interlock C/SiC composite at 1,200°C, measured by DIC. Line scans (in red) are used to correlate strains with the underlying…

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Flood of ‘big data’ announcements, awards coincide with unique federal webcast

By / March 30, 2012

Example of data visualization efforts. This shows concurrent visualization of 20 simulation runs performed by the International Panel on Climate Change using the HIPerWall (Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Wall) system.…

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Hafnium and zirconium diboride composites for leading edges of hypersonic vehicles

By Eileen De Guire / August 12, 2011

Artist’s rendition of DARPA’s Falcon HTV-2 hypersonic aircraft. Credit: DARPA.   It’s not often that the latest issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society to hit the newsstands…

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White House invests $500M in Advanced Manufacturing Partnership

By Eileen De Guire / June 29, 2011

President Barack Obama announces Advanced Manufacturing Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University. Credit: Pete Souza; Official White House Photo. Last week President Obama unveiled a new initiative to invest in emerging…

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Missouri S&T gets funding to develop battlefield ‘smart dust’

By / August 19, 2010

Smart dust components. (Credit: University of California Berkeley Roboticsand Intelligent Machines Lab.) A significant trend in electronics technology is the increasing ability to provide adaptive features into smaller and smaller…

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Ceramic, glass opportunities and advice for ARPA-E funding

By / August 18, 2010

Dave Danielson, from ARPA-E, made a valuable
keynote presentation about ARPA-E funding interests and how ceramists
and other materials scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs can best
match up their interests with the agency’s.

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Video of the week: Ceramic, glass opportunities and advice for ARPA-E funding

By / May 5, 2010

Earlier this year, as part of ACerS’s Electronic Materials and Applications conference, Dave Danielson, from ARPA-E, made a valuable keynote presentation about ARPA-E funding interests and how ceramists and other…

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