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J.D. Jeter
The Big Picture

How Does Academic Lab Safety Impact Your Workplace?

The graduates that your company depends upon for its future success are probably being steeped as undergraduates in a lax safety environment.
J. Douglas Jeter PE, ASP
June 1, 2017
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After instructing an U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 10-hr Industrial Safety course at the 2016 Ceramics Expo in Cleveland, Ohio, I was invited by Edgar Lara-Curzio of Oak Ridge National Laboratory to participate in the “Best Practices in Academic Laboratory Safety” symposium at the 2017 Material Science & Technology (MS&T;) meeting in Pittsburgh, Pa.
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Superior Graphite Announces Strategic Realignment

Superior Graphite’s realignment will reportedly accelerate investments in specialty high-temperature products and enhanced infrastructure, as well as executive appointments to support the new strategy.
May 31, 2017
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Superior Graphite recently announced a multi-year strategic plan and new management organization.


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Frac Sand Continues to Dominate Proppants Market

Increasing proppant consumption per well and improvements in fracturing technologies are the major factors expected to drive the proppant market.
May 31, 2017
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The global proppants market is projected to reach $9.87 billion by 2022, growing at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.9% between 2017 and 2022.


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Revenue Increases 100% for U.S. Silica in 2017 First Quarter

U.S. Silica Holdings Inc. recently announced net income of $2.5 million or $0.03 per basic and diluted share for the first quarter ending March 31.
May 3, 2017
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First quarter results were negatively impacted by $1.5 million in business development-related expenses and $6.3 million in costs related to the restructuring of a vendor contract.


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Ceramic Materials Characterization Using X-Ray Diffraction

Successful ceramic manufacturing requires the correct identification of phases and an understanding of microstructure in starting powders and finished products.
May 1, 2017
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Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques can trace their origin to the pioneering work of Debye and Scherrer in Europe (1916) and Hull in the U.S. (1917).1 Their results dispelled the belief that grinding a single crystal to a powder would destroy crystallinity.
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Materials Innovation

Researchers Develop New Pre-Ceramic Polymer

A water-like polymer has been developed that can facilitate the creation of high-temperature ceramics suitable for multiple applications.
Jennifer Tidball
May 1, 2017
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Using five ingredients (silicon, boron, carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen), Gurpreet Singh, the Harold O. and Jane C. Massey Neff associate professor of mechanical and nuclear engineering at Kansas State University, has created a liquid polymer that can transform into a ceramic with valuable thermal, optical, and electronic properties.
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