Most all of us in the ceramics field, to greater and lesser extents, have been rooting for A123 Systems to succeed, so its been painful to see the company in recent months entering what appears to be …
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Transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricityOn the left is a piece of glass plate, and on the right is the transparent solar cellHigh-resolution imageCredit: Rui Zhu, Ph.D., one of th…
Vitox® AMC, an alumina matrix composite bioceramic material for hip joints from leading manufacturer of ceramic components, Morgan Technical Ceramics, is proven to have exceptionally low wear rates co…
Texas Technical Ceramics, Inc. (TTC) announced today that it has been awarded a three (3) year contract with Backer EHP for mass production of approximately 45 Million ceramic parts per the contract t…
Edited By Peter Wray • July 27, 2012 (No Comments)Many of the same materials used in semiconductor processing are being applied to textile materials. Credit: Jur, NCSU.The notion of ceramics going tog…
• Ardagh Group is to buy (from Wayzata Investment Partners) US-based Anchor Glass Container Corp. for $880 million. The deal is expected to close at the end of August 2012. Anchor, the third largest g…
Ceramics Make Electronic Devices PossibleThe nearly $2-trillion global electronics industry would not exist without ceramics. Ceramics’ wide range of electrical properties including insulating, semi-c…
Second-order nonlinear optical properties are fundamental for applications such as frequency conversions. Glass ceramics are of great interest for the development of optical elements with meter-scale …
Woven silicon carbide ceramic fibers. Credit: Christian Heiss et al.; MaterialsViews/Wiley.Textile structures made from silicon carbide fibers are very interesting for manufacturing of fiber reinforce…
A new research report titled, “Sol-Gel Processing of Ceramics and Glass” has been released by Reportlinker.com. The report is an update of the market report published in 2006, and it provides the most…
A new research report titled, “Sol-Gel Processing of Ceramics and Glass” has been released by Reportlinker.com. The report is an update of the market report published in 2006, and it provides the most…
KEMET, a provider of high performance capacitance solutions, has added C0G and Ultra-Stable X8R dielectric technologies to its flexible termination (FT-CAP) portfolio. These technologies are RoHS comp…