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Policy and Innovation History (Radar, Manhattan Project and Apollo)
Innovation is a newborn baby that politicians love to kiss – regions and municipalities want more of it, but are uncertain of how to proceed. Metrics are challenging – for the politician and bureaucrat it isn’t clear whether they should … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, History, Industry, Invention, Theory
Tagged Disruption, History, Industry, Innovation, Innovation Policy, Manhattan Project, World War II
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NanoH2O Acquisition: The Product
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
Posted in Business, Disruption, Filtration, History, Industry, Innovation, Membrane
Tagged Clean tech, Filtration, Industrial technology, Industry, Materials Science, Membrane, Nano-filtration, Nanofiltration, NanoH2O, Reverse Osmosis, RO, Salt water, Separation, Water
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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. Unfortunately, this article ties together many sensationalist components that are commonly … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, Industry, Innovation, Invention, Textile
Tagged commercialization, dialysis, electrospin, healthcare, Industry, Membrane, Nanofiber, scale-up, zeolite
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Filtration in the Popular Media: Chinese Fear for Soil and Food
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
Posted in Industry, Innovation, Invention
Tagged Cadmium, China, Filtration, food, Hunan province, Industry, Pollution, Process water, Regulations, rice, Run-off, Soil pollution, Waste water
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Superbowl Post: Playing a Different Game
In 1906 the rules were modified to allow the forward pass American Football (aka “Gridiron”), defining the schism between football and rugby and enabling those teams that made use of the play to dominate their opponents. If you had the … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, History, Industry, Innovation, Materials Science, Theory
Tagged Broncos, Forward pass, Games, Industry, Materials Science, Nanofiber membrane, Seahawks, Superbowl
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Google’s “Create a Filter” – Pure Torture If You Make Real Filters
Specialized software programs are unusual in the filtration industry – Excel and Minitab are used for data analysis, there are lots of .pdfs circulated with marketing materials and those are often originally crafted in PowerPoint, Word or other commonly used … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Innovation, Materials Science, Theory
Tagged Filter, Filtration, Google, Industrial, Industry, Materials Science, Media, Particulate, Product, Product Management, Product Marketing
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Industrial Tours
I love walking a plant floor. Unfortunately, most of what I see from working with customers can’t go out on the Internet, and if I do have photos, they are under NDA. My son loves the show How It’s Made … Continue reading
Posted in Aerospace, Business, Disruption, History, Industry, Innovation
Tagged Aerospace, Assets, Capital, Disruption, Education, Heavy Industry, History, Industry, Innovation, Machinery, Museum, Plants, Tours
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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 some observations on why it is tough to … Continue reading
Posted in Disruption, Invention, Materials Science, Textile
Tagged Adoption, Elmarco, Filter, Filtration, Industry, Materials Science, Membrane, Microfiltration, Nanofiber, NF, Nonwoven, Polymer, Reverse Osmosis, RO, technical textile, technology
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3D Printing: Not Past the Hype Until 2025
Tech News Today host Tom Merritt brought up the outlook for 3D printing in their year end Forecast Show – the technology continued go get a lot of press in 2012 and Mr. Merritt’s outlook for 2013 was optimistic but … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Disruption, Industry, Innovation, Invention, Materials Science
Tagged 3D Printing, Gartner Hype Cycle, Hype, Industry, Manufacturing, Microsoft, Production, technology
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