Advancements in producing carbon nanotubes on flexible metal substrates
Growing carbon nanotubes on metal foils rather than traditional silicon or quartz substrates would allow the process to be easily integrated into large-scale manufacturing processes. But metal foils present other challenges, such as reactivity at high temperatures. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers published a review paper summarizing efforts to overcome these challenges.
Credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Ceramic Tech Chat: John Mauro
Hosted by ACerS Bulletin editors, Ceramic Tech Chat talks with ACerS members to learn about their unique and personal stories of how they found their way to careers in ceramics. New episodes publish the third Wednesday of each month.
In the September 2023 episode of Ceramic Tech Chat, John Mauro, Dorothy Pate Enright Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University, shares his experience working with glass in the worlds of industry and academia, discusses the do’s and don’ts of publishing your research in journals, and talks about the similarities between scientific and fantasy fiction writing.
Check out a preview from his episode, in which Mauro describes the importance of storytelling in scholarly publishing.
“What we’re trying to do with technical writing is also to tell a story. We need to motivate the story, we need to tell it in a way that flows, and we want to grab the reader from early in the process. We want to make them understand what’s going on in a way that’s coherent, that’s interesting. We want to emphasize the key points, and we want to do it in a way that people actually like reading it. And like I said, that’s usually not the case in technical writing, where it’s like, ‘Okay, just the facts, please.’ But if you write something in a way that is enjoyable to read and provides a good reading experience, then more people will read it, and it will ultimately have a bigger impact.”
Listen to Mauro's whole interview—and all our other Ceramic Tech Chat episodes—at this link.