A plane with wings of glass?

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Colloidal particles that mimic atoms form a gel with the structure of glass. Credit: Paddy Royall University of Bristol UK
Colloidal particles, that mimic atoms, form a gel with the structure of glass. Credit: Paddy Royall, University of Bristol, UK

Imagine a plane that has wings made out of glass. Thanks to a major breakthrough in understanding the nature of glass by scientists at the University of Bristol, this has just become a possibility.


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