Category Archives: Innovation

NanoH2O Acquisition: The Product

Posted on April 14, 2014 by flybrand1976

On Friday, March 14, Korean industrial concern LG Chem announced they were purchasing NanoH2O, an RO membrane maker that took its first external funding at the peak of the CleanTech bubble in 2005 for $200 MM.  Industrial technology has proven … Continue reading →

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Nonwovens in Tech News: Feminine Care & Apparel

Posted on March 17, 2014 by flybrand1976

Working with industrial technology often feels like being behind stage at a play – you’re able to see all of the behind the scenes action that enables modern life.  Often times articles in the popular press, and particularly tech news, … Continue reading →

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USA Soccer and Brazil FIFA 2014: Not Just Happy to Be There

Posted on March 15, 2014 by flybrand1976

ESPN’s football/soccer podcast, “Men In Blazers” interviewed USA Soccer head coach Jurgen Klinnsman at South by Southwest in Austin, TX. At about 30 minutes in, in a light-hearted manner he talks about the US having a fan base that publicly … Continue reading →

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Nanofibers in Application: Dialysis using Zeolites in an Electrospun NF Web

Posted on March 14, 2014 by flybrand1976

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.  Unfortunately, this article ties together many sensationalist components that are commonly … Continue reading →

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Filtration in the Popular Media: Chinese Fear for Soil and Food

Posted on March 13, 2014 by flybrand1976

The New York Times recently covered the growing awareness of the pollution problems in China that have come with increased industrialization and growth.  The December 2013 article focused on growing concerns about heavy metals, primarily cadmium, spreading into the food … Continue reading →

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New Products: What We Study

Posted on March 13, 2014 by flybrand1976

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children … Continue reading →

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Define the Mission, then the Vehicle

Posted on March 12, 2014 by flybrand1976

Pat Duggins’ book Final Countdown, which documents NASA’s move to shutdown the Space Shuttle Program repeats an important aviation and aerospace maxim: The mission should define the vehicle, not the vehicle define the mission. Apollo’s mission was to put a … Continue reading →

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Reading and Listening to Revolutionary America

Posted on March 11, 2014 by flybrand1976

The American revolution is fascinating from a political, military, economic and social standpoint.  I didn’t fully appreciate its importance until moving to Virginia for college.  When reading, listening and learning about this time period, I look at things in three … Continue reading →

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World of Bluegrass Should be Raleigh and Durham’s SXSW

Posted on March 10, 2014 by flybrand1976

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 greater number of early stage investors has helped Austin pass us as a region when … Continue reading →

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Insights from Aviation and Aerospace on Innovation and Disruption

Posted on March 10, 2014 by flybrand1976

There are no shortage of insights to be taken from the aviation and aerospace industry.  Any achievements are made in public – the Wright’s couldn’t hide their practice sessions in Ohio, Sputnik’s surface reflected in the night sky as it … Continue reading →

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