News tagged with solid glass

In metallic glasses, researchers find a few new atomic structures

Drawing on powerful computational tools and a state-of-the-art scanning transmission electron microscope, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison and Iowa State University materials science and engineering researchers has ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Cracking a controversial solid state mystery

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists can easily explain the structural order that makes steel and aluminium out of molten metal. And they have discovered the molecular changes that take place as water turns to ice. But, despite the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 06, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (10) | comments 6

Looking through the glass transition on an ultrafast timescale

(Phys.org) -- When chemists look at a drinking glass filled with water and a few ice cubes, it's not clear to them whether the glass is more like the water or the ice.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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.

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 0