How do you explain a ‘difficult’ technical subject to someone without any technical background? How do you write a manual that is acually being used? How do you capture business-critical information in such a way that your own employees – or their successors – will benefit from it? Or in general: technical writing – how … Continue reading Technical writing – how to do that?
More and more, light metals as aluminium or magnesium take the place of polymers as polycarbonate with respect to the housing of smartphones, tablets or notebooks. Of these materials as such, polycarbonate is the lightest with a density of 1.2 g/cm3. This would argue in favour of this material; after all, the lighter such a … Continue reading Polymers or light metals as housing for gadgets?
Why are chinaware, drinking glasses and metal cutlery dry when taking them out of the dishwasher, while plastic cups remain wet? Is a LED-lamp really the reverse of a solar cell? Why does data travel faster through a glass fibre than through a copper wire? And how can you make glass or ceramics more fracture … Continue reading Meet materials – materials science & technology for people without a materials background
The board of the Netherlands Ceramic Society (NKV) is pleased to invite you for our next meeting on Thursday May 12. On this date, you are welcome in Restaurant Croy De Goffert in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, for the following program that mainly deals with interaction between young ceramic researchers that present their research, and experienced … Continue reading Student Speech Contest during 12-May meeting of Netherlands Ceramic Society (NKV)
This week, a new book on self healing materials was published. On 27 October 2015, during the IOP symposium ‘Self healing materials – prepare for landing’ in Utrecht, the Netherlands, the book ‘Self healing materials – Pioneering research in the Netherlands’ saw the light. The editors of the book – Sybrand van der Zwaag and Eddy … Continue reading Self healing materials – Pioneering research in the Netherlands
On 27 October the final event of the ‘Innovatiegerichte Onderzoeksprogramma (IOP)’ Self Healing Materials will take place in Utrecht. The ‘IOP’ is a ten-year research programme subsidized by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency in which 5 Dutch universities and no less than 68 companies participated. Full Professor Novel Aerospace Materials Sybrand van der Zwaag is the … Continue reading 27 October – Final event national research programme Self Healing Materials – Prepare for landing
After nine years being involved as member of the board of the Netherlands Society for Materials Science (Bond voor Materialenkennis), Eddy Brinkman handed over the gavel on June 5, 2015. During the council meeting (Bondsraadvergadering), he and Bert van Haastrecht said goodbye to the board. In addition to the remaining board members Amarante Böttger, Erik … Continue reading Eddy Brinkman no longer president of Netherlands Society for Materials Science
The porosity of a material indicates what is the volume of empty space with respect to the total volume. So if you know that a material is 25% porous, then it consists for 75% of ‘real material’, and the remaining quarter is ‘nothing’ or air. But in addition to this absolute value for the porosity, … Continue reading Data processing of membrane characterisation by permporometry
Computer simulations on an atomic or molecular scale give a direct link between the microscopic details of a system (atomic masses, molecular geometry, etc.) on the one hand, and macroscopic properties that are of experimental interest (energies, transport coefficients etc.) on the other. By comparing the outcome of the simulation with experimental results, understanding can … Continue reading Molecular dynamics computer simulations of yttria-stabilized zirconia
NanoNextNL, the Dutch consortium on research into micro and nanotechnology, asked Betase to make a newspaper for the two-day event NanoCity 2014. On this event, which took place on October 27 and 28 in De Fabrique near Utrecht, about 500 ‘NanoCitizens’ visited the exhibiting companies, presentations in plenary and parallel sessions, scientific posters of (mainly) … Continue reading NanoCity Planet 2014
