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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / April 24, 2012

Process flow of preparing the vertically aligned single-walled CNTs-DSCs. Pre-etched VASWCNTs on silicon substrate (Process 1) were flipped on top of the FTO-glass, and then a force was loaded onside…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / March 20, 2012

Check ’em out: Ultrafast large-amplitude relocation of electronic charge in ionic crystals (pdf) (PNAS, Early Edition) We have demonstrated an ultrafast relocation of charge that is induced by electronic excitation…

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Superionic phosphate glass stamp for lab-on-a-chip manufacture

By Eileen De Guire / October 26, 2011

A glass stamp reproduces precise, nanometer-scale etchings in silver. This original engraving is 10 microns wide – less than a quarter of the diameter of a human hair. Credit: Kyle…

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Other materials stories that may be of interest

By / October 4, 2011

NIST Extends Response Period for Comments on Proposed New Advanced Manufacturing Program To accommodate additional interested parties, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced a 30-day extension…

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Monday materials fun: Robotic flying ‘maple seed’ vehicle with two moving parts

By / August 22, 2011

I used to imagine a lot of the bio-inspired ideas, such as flying maple seed pods (above) and artificial jellyfish arose on Thursday or Friday afternoons around happy hour time…

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Defense agency soliciting proposals for materials research for countering WMDs

By / August 9, 2011

Credit: DTRA. We received the following from the DOD Basic and Applied Sciences Directorate, Defense Threat Reduction Agency: DTRA’s mission is to safeguard America and its allies from Weapons of Mass…

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Ceramic and glass business news from this week

By / March 10, 2011

Here is what we are hearing: CoorsTek invests $3 million in EmiSense Technologies (pdf) EmiSense Technologies, LLC today announced it has closed its second round of funding. The investment round…

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