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The Textile Supply Chain
Like most mature industries, the textile supply chain is large and complex. Materials which the lay person might view as substitutes can have dramatically different end applications. The savvy industry...
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Nonwovens and Battery Anodes: Applying the Materials Science Framework
Callister on Amazon.com. Dr. Yi Cui of Stanford and founder of battery company Amprius, recently published a paper outlining a new structure for battery anodes. Graphite is the most commonly used...
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Filtration Challenges: Too Many Circles in my Venn Diagram
With Efficiency on the y-axis and Energy consumption (aka Cost) on the x-axis, our optimum location is the top left. When we are working with a customer to design a new porous material, the first two...
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Filtration in the Popular Media: Singapore Smoke
From the Economist Article, “Hazed and Confused.” This June 21st article from the Economist, “Hazed and Confused; Smog over Singapore” covers the recent pollution challenges in Singapore. The...
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Challenges in Measuring Nanofiber Adoption
As part of recent INDA RISE Conference, we were asked to pull together a presentation on industrial scale manufacturing of nanofiber (“NF”) membranes. As part of that presentation I wound up covering...
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World of Bluegrass Should be Raleigh and Durham’s SXSW
World of Bluegrass + Real Technology = Good for all of NC Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill have always had a bit of inferiority complex about our place in the tech world. Texas’s booming economy and a...
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Nanofibers in Application: Dialysis using Zeolites in an Electrospun NF Web
The popular press has picked up on the publication of, Fabrication of zeolite–polymer composite nanofibers for removal of uremic toxins from kidney failure patients by a team out of WPI-MANA....
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Travel Guide: Clothing for Long Flights and Travel
Favorite travel gear. Balancing comfort and style while regularly logging over 100,000 miles a year in flights (or even doing a few trans-oceanic flights a year) isn’t easy. I’m good at identifying...
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“What does it take to be (a good) CEO?” Answer: People
All of the successes were from bringing in good people, helping them frame problems and getting them the tools they needed to be successful. The failures? They were mine – mostly due to not properly...
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5,000,000 Youtube Views for ‘Filtration’– Tough Concepts the #1 Video Gets Right
Grant Thompson’s Youtube channel has over 11 million subscribers (as of June 2019) and his top video covering ‘Lego Gummy Candy’ has over 33 million views. As ‘The King of Random‘ the channel...
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