Ivar Reimanis
Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado – EUA
Abstract
A two part presentation will be given. First, an overview of
ceramics research within the Colorado Center for Advanced Ceramics at
Colorado School of Mines will be given. This highlights work on ceramics
for energy applications, structural ceramics and processing, atom probe
tomography, and nanomechanics. Next, recent research on the formation of
glass and glass-ceramics from food waste will be described. Several
different compositions of transparent, soda-lime based glasses were made
with a variety of starting materials, including rice hull, banana peels,
egg shells, corn husks/cobs, avocado peels/nuts, used coffee grains,
peanut shells, etc. This talk will discuss the composition, structure,
and morphology of the raw ingredients and the properties of the
resulting glasses and glass-ceramics. The amount of food waste in the
world can easily supply the glass industry with enough raw materials to
significantly impact manufacturing of certain items, such as windows and
display covers, and reduce the environmental impact of human food waste.