If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be ...

Glass is heat-treated for two reasons: the first is to increase its strength to resist external stresses such as wind and snow loads, or thermal loads caused by the sun’s energy. The second is to ...

There's a method to finite element modeling for materials microarchitecture to make super strong glass. Researchers use complex models to study the breaking point of brittle materials; the secret is ...

Editor's take: Scientists have devised a new way to make super-strong glass. The process mixes regular oxide glass with aluminosilicate at extremely high temperatures and pressure. The resulting ...

As anyone who extrudes plastic noodles knows, the glass transition temperature of a material is a bit misleading; polymers gradually transition between a glass and a liquid across a range of ...