Categoria: 2020

Science and Technology of Glasses, Glass Ceramics, and Optical Materials: Submit your abstract before Jan. 15, 2020! Pan American Ceramics Congress and Ferroelectrics Meeting of Americas (PACC-FMAs 2020), July 19–23, 2020 Is your research focused on advanced structural characterizations of glasses, glass transition and relaxation, integrated optical systems, and other related applications of glass and optical materials? You’re invited to submit an abstract for the symposium “Science and Technology of Glasses, Glass Ceramics, and Optical Materials” at PACC-FMAs 2020 in Panama City, Panama. Topics include chalcogenide and non-oxide glasses, material manufacturing methods for new optical applications, novel glass formulations and

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For the housing sector, 2020 is poised to be a good year. Sales of new homes are expected to rise to a 13-year high of 750,000, and sales of existing homes likely will increase 3.7% to 5.56 million, according to Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of Realtors, in a HousingWire article. Although these predictions promise rosy earnings for real estate agents, the truth is these homes mainly benefit people who already live securely and are looking to move. For the 1.2 billion people living in cities around the world without access to secure housing, these thousands of

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Prior to the 1970s, the goal of biomaterials was to replace, not repair, diseased or damaged tissues. But when Larry Hench discovered bioactive glass in 1969, that mindset changed—now, tissue regeneration and repair is the goal. Bioactive glass is routinely used to regenerate and repair bone and hard tissues, and research on using bioactive glass to heal soft tissues continues to grow as well. Yet there is another application of bioactive glass that is rarely studied—muscle regeneration, specifically skeletal muscle. Skeletal muscle is one of three major muscle types in the body. Also called voluntary muscle because of a person’s

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