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Wolfgang Rossner on advanced ceramics for sustainability & Siemens’ corporate technology

By / September 5, 2012

Wolfgang Rossner, leader of the Ceramic Materials and Devices division of Siemen’s, spoke at the Ceramic Leadership Summit about how the company approaches the development of its technical strategies.

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Video: On Bloom Energy’s new East Coast SOFC plant and massive Delaware deal

By / April 30, 2012

Credit: Katie Fehrenbacher, GigaOm. Bloom Energy is making a big push to establish a foothold along the Eastern Seaboard. Today, Bloom is holding a ground-breaking ceremony a its new “Bloom…

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BBC to broadcast ‘Ceramics: How They Work’

By / April 16, 2012

Screenshot of superconductors from BBC4 presentation of “Ceramics: How They Work.” Credit: BBC. I don’t have access to BBC channels (and I am unclear how much of the network’s programming…

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Video of the week: Protrusion of particles in suspension affect viscosity properties

By / April 6, 2012

[flash http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/droplet_jaeger_uChi.flv mode=1 f={image=http://ceramictechweekly.org/wp-content/video/droplet_jaeger_uChi.jpg}] Credit: Miskin and Jaeger; PNAS. Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it … I realize this brief video doesn’t appear to be doing anything…

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Video of the week: Manoj Choudhary discusses his IJAGS paper: Mathematical modeling of flow and heat transfer phenomena in glass melting, delivery and forming processes

By / March 22, 2012

This video comes courtesy of our colleagues at MaterialsViews.com and Wiley’s Hope Inman. MaterialsViews has been experimenting with some new types of online presentations of various papers published in Wiley’s…

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And, in honor of today’s Nobel Prize (quasicrystals)

By / October 5, 2011

Björk – you either lover her or hate her. But, she is on a science+Apple apps binge, so I think she is worth watching. The first single from her science-based…

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Feynman’s life grist for new graphic novel

By / August 31, 2011

A new graphic biography about physicist Richard Feynman has just been published. I don’t have particular “heroes,” but I have always wished I could emulate Feynman’s wisdom, wit and mellow…

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Other materials stories that may also be of interest

By / August 18, 2011

Check ’em out: Why we need a Kelley Blue Book for solar Swarmanoids (like the Mission Impossible crew, only better) Building honors site’s history as an aggregate mine with extensive…

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Video of the week: From macro to micro—a 3D journey through ceramic structures

By / August 2, 2011

Pull out your Shrek souvenir red/green cardboard glasses. You will need them for this intriguing simulation video I found of ceramic cellular structures by Tobias Fey at the University of…

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Video of the week: The Shirtsleeve Invention

By / June 22, 2011

I learned about the existence of this video after I wrote my review of Gloria Beasley Lausten’s book about the work by her husband (Bob Beasley) on the NASA’s Space…

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