News tagged with silica glass
Glass that cleans itself
Eyeglasses need never again to be cleaned, and dirty windscreens are a thing of the past! Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz and the Technical University Darmstadt are now ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Why have Murillo's skies turned grey?
Smalt was one of the blue pigments the most commonly used by the artists between the 16th and 18th centuries. Unfortunately, this pigment is unstable and tends to fade with time. Researchers from the new European ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
May 19, 2011 |
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The boundless promise -- and mystery -- of glass
For more than 40 years, Rensselaer Professor Minoru Tomozawa has been pioneering new innovations in a field that most people take for granted: glass.
Aug 02, 2010 |
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Engineers Demo Smallest Room Temperature Laser
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine packing 4 billion nanolasers on a three-inch semiconductor wafer. That is now nearer to reality, thanks to researchers at the University of California, San Diego’s Jacobs School of ...
May 03, 2010 |
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Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything
(PhysOrg.com) -- Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 02, 2010 |
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Rare earth metal enhances phosphate glass
(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colorless, ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Materials scientists find better model for glass creation
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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.
Nov 04, 2009 |
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Light at the speed of a bicycle and much more
The speed of light, 300 million metres per second, was long thought an immutable constant and has defined our understanding of matter and energy but recent research in the area of optics and photonics is proving ...
Sep 09, 2009 |
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