For decades, a university degree was seen as the golden ticket to a secure and prestigious job in Kenya. Parents pushed their children to pursue careers in medicine, law, and engineering, believing ...

Applications of ceramic materials, with emphasis on structure (bond, crystal, glass, defect, micro-); properties (thermal, electrical, optical, magnetic, mechanical ...

Helping people remain healthy and fit for as long as possible will be crucial as populations around the world get older.

The College of Ceramics is a world-renowned ceramics and glass science school, with one of the only glass science PhD programs in the country. Now past its 30th anniversary, the CACT was recently ...

He has taught this course for over 25 years. Dr. Jeffery J. Swab received a BS in Ceramic Science & Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University and his MS and PhD in Material Science & ...

In addition to plain, hard solids, modern ceramics come in many new guises such as fabrics, ultrathin films, microstructures and hybrid composites. Built on the solid foundations laid down by the ...

Transition metals have long been used as catalysts to activate small molecules and turn them into valuable products. However, as these metals can be expensive and less abundant, scientists are ...

The steps in production of fired ceramic articles, including powder preparation, compaction and forming, and firing, will be studied. The following list of topics will be covered: powder synthesis and ...

[Ben Krasnow] over at Applied Science was experimenting with cutting inexpensive ceramic sheets with his cheap CO2 laser cutter when he found that (just as expected) the thermal shock of the CO2 ...

In a new study published in Nature, researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and collaborators show that the efficacy of a commonly used piezoelectric ceramic material can be ...