News tagged with metallic glass
Glass you can build with: Metallic glass that's stronger and lasts longer
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The normal structure of metals is crystalline. Glass, on the other hand, is amorphous. But it's possible to make amorphous forms of metal, metallic glasses, which can be remarkably strong, ...
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Scientists create titanium-based structural metallic-glass composites
Dec 19, 2008 |
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Scientists from the California Institute of Technology have created a range of structural metallic-glass composites, based in titanium, that are lighter and less expensive than any the group had previously ...
New Method for Creating Tough Metallic Glass Composites
Feb 28, 2008 |
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Scientists at the California Institute of Technology have developed a new strategy for creating "liquid metal" that makes it able to bend significantly without breaking, while retaining a strength twice that of titanium. ...
A plane with wings of glass?
Jun 22, 2008 |
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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.
Solving the mysteries of metallic glass
Dec 19, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have made significant progress in understanding a class of materials that has resisted analysis for decades. Their findings could lead to the rapid discovery of a variety ...
Solving the mysteries of metallic glass
Dec 22, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT and the National University of Singapore have made significant progress in understanding a class of materials that has resisted analysis for decades. Their findings could lead to the rapid ...
Nanostructured composite material may replace depleted uranium
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Jan 31, 2007 |
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Armor-piercing projectiles made of depleted uranium have caused concern among soldiers storing and using them. Now, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory are close to developing a new composite with ...
Mystery of metallic glass is cracked
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Jan 26, 2006 |
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Using state-of-the-art lab techniques and powerful computer simulations, Johns Hopkins researchers have discovered how atoms pack themselves in unusual materials known as metallic glasses. Their findings should ...
Scientists look through glass to find secrets that are less clear
Jun 06, 2006 |
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A new understanding of how glass is formed may assist with our understanding of everything from the design of golf club heads to the structure of the early universe.
Physicists Find a World of Motion In the Mystery of Aging Glass
Sep 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists super-cooled a liquid into glass in order to observe the slowing of particles. It's a material that still perplexes researchers despite thousands of years of household and industrial use.
Bioactive glass nanofibers produced
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 18, 2009 |
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A team of researchers from the University of Vigo, Rutgers University in the United States and Imperial College London, in the United Kingdom, has developed "laser spinning", a novel method of producing glass ...
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