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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / April 6, 2022

Volcano monitoring at Mount Etna, glass learns to illuminate itself, and other materials stories that may be of interest for April 6, 2022.

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Restoration of porcelain artifacts: Opportunities and challenges for ceramic additive manufacturing

By Lisa McDonald / August 24, 2021

Plastics used to restore porcelain artifacts can become yellowish or differ in color from the ceramic base material over time. Researchers in Germany explored the potential of using ceramic additive manufacturing technologies and subtractive post-processing steps to restore porcelain artifacts instead.

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By Lisa McDonald / November 20, 2019

Slippery toilet coating provides cleaner flushing, thin heat shield for superfast aircraft, and other materials stories that may be of interest for November 20, 2019.

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Ceramics for clean water: Nanofiltration membranes break separation limits

By April Gocha / June 23, 2017

Researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS) (Hermsdorf, Germany) have harnessed the power of ceramics to develop nanofiltration membranes that can generate completely clean drinking water from wastewater—even industrial sewage.

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By Eileen De Guire / March 22, 2013

Here is what we are hearing: Morgan Technical Ceramics launches new high-performance piezoelectric material Morgan Technical Ceramics, a market leader in the design and manufacture of high-quality ceramic solutions, is…

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Germany is epicenter of ceramic engineering and manufacturing this week

By Eileen De Guire / May 25, 2012

From Tuesday’s gala dinner at the CMCEE conference this week in Dresden, Germany. In contemporary garb from left are ACerS President George Wicks; ACerS Executive Director Charlie Spahr; CMCEE Cochair…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / May 8, 2012

Stanford University researchers have discovered a new way to ‘decorate’ nanowires with coatings of metal oxide and noble metal nanoparticles that greatly improve surface area. Credit: Stanford Nanocharacterization Lab. Check ’em…

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Ceramics and glass business news of the week

By / February 23, 2012

Here’s what we are hearing (mostly via press releases and trade publication reports): Power Plant Services chooses Lucifer Furnaces Lucifer Furnaces Inc. recently delivered a single chamber bench model box…

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