The University at Buffalo, N.Y., has received a $2.9 million National Science Foundation grant to transform the traditional role of a database as a repository for information into an automated computer laboratory that rapidly collects, interprets, and learns from massive amounts of information.
Continue readingNanolaminated MoAlB coating resists corrosion at high temperatures
Drexel University, Philadelphia, announces that a research team from Drexel, Linkoping University in Sweden, and Imperial College London, has produced a nanolaminated molybdenum-aluminum-boride coating that resists corrosion at high temperatures.
Continue readingThe world loses Karl A. Gschneidner
Ames Laboratory Senior metallurgist Karl A. Gschneidner Jr., known around the world as Mr. Rare Earth, passed away April 27 at the age of 85.
Continue readingRare earth elements extracted from coal ash
Duke University, Durham, N.C., reports that its researchers have extracted rare earth elements from coal ash that contains amounts ranging from 337 to 591 ppm, depending on location.
Continue readingOxygen-free copper strip produced in continuous casting, rolling, and coiling process
Mansfelder, Kupfer, und Messing GmbH (MKM), Germany, has begun the production of high-purity, oxygen-free copper strip via Conti-M technology, which makes it possible to cast, hot-roll, mill, and coil copper strip in a continuous process.
Continue readingUnraveling structural ambiguities in lithium-rich transition metal oxides
Using complementary microscopy and spectroscopy techniques, researchers at say they have solved the structure of lithium- and manganese-rich transition metal oxides.
Continue readingGraftech to relocate headquarters to Independence, R&D to Brooklyn Heights
GrafTech International Ltd., Parma, Ohio, announces that its global headquarters will be relocated to Independence, Ohio, and will house approximately 50 employees working in the company’s corporate functions.
Continue readingLucifer Furnaces supplies high temperature box furnace to battery maker
Lucifer Furnaces, Warrington, Pa., recently shipped a high-temperature laboratory box furnace to a leading producer of products for the battery, ceramics, and glass industries around the globe.
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