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Mar 18 | News
Duke Univ. researchers have devised a method to dry and preserve proteins in a glassified form that seems to retain the molecules' properties as workhorses of biology.
Mar 16 | News
Metallic glasses are emerging as potentially useful materials at the frontier of materials science research. They combine the advantages and avoid many of the problems of normal metals and glasses, two classes of materials with a very wide range of applications.
Mar 5 | News
Scientists from the Functional Materials Group at Kent Univ.'s School of Physical Sciences (SPS) have expanded the potential uses of glass by developing an experimental technique that reveals more clearly how atoms in glass vibrate.
Jan 8 | News
In ancient mythological times reflective surfaces like shiny metals and mirrors were thought to be magical and credited with the ability to look into the future. NASA is using mirrors to do just the opposite—look into the past.
12/21/2009 | News
Duke Univ. engineers have created a new generation of lens that could greatly improve the capabilities of telecommunications or radar systems to provide a wide field of view and greater detail.
11/6/2009 | News
Harvard materials scientists have come up with what they believe is a new way to model the formation of glasses, a type of amorphous solid that includes common window glass. Glasses form through the process of vitrification, in which a glass-forming liquid cools and slowly becomes a solid whose molecules, though they've stopped moving, are not permanently locked into a crystal structure. Instead, they're more like a liquid that has merely stopped flowing, though they can continue to move over long stretches of time.
9/29/2009 | News
It is possible that broken bones will soon be fixed using metallic glass. Materials researchers at the ETH Zurich have developed an alloy that could lead to a new generation of biodegradable bone implants. The team has now eliminated side-effects by producing an innovative magnesium-zinc-calcium alloy in the form of a metallic glass which is biocompatible and shows fundamentally different degradation behavior.
9/25/2009 | News
A team of engineers and artists working at the Univ. of Washington's Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory has developed a way to create glass objects using a conventional 3-D printer. The technique allows a new type of material to be used in such devices. The team's method, which it named the Vitraglyphic process, is a follow-up to the Solheim Lab's success last spring printing with ceramics.
9/15/2009 | News
To protect from potential terrorist attacks, federal buildings and other critical infrastructures are made with special windows that contain blast-resistant glass. However, the glass is thick and expensive. Currently, Univ. of Missouri researchers are developing and testing a new type of blast-resistant glass that will be thinner, lighter, and less vulnerable to small-scale explosions.
8/21/2009 | News
A new process for creating ultrathin, ultrasmall inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and assembling them into large arrays offers new classes of lighting and display systems with interesting properties, such as see-through construction and mechanical flexibility, that would be impossible to achieve with existing technologies.