News tagged with metallic glass

Blocked holes can enhance rather than stop light going through

Conventional wisdom would say that blocking a hole would prevent light from going through it, but Princeton University engineers have discovered the opposite to be true. A research team has found that placing ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

When it comes to churning out electrons, metal glass beats plastics

By adding carbon nanotubes to a glass-like metal compound, researchers have devised a new breed of field emission electrodes. This technology, which produces a stream of electrons, may have promising applications in the consumer ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New glass stamp may make cheaper, more precise biosensors

Advances in microchip technology may someday enable clinicians to perform tests for hundreds of diseases -- sifting out specific molecules, such as early stage cancer cells -- from just one drop of blood. ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First ever single crystal metallic glass created under 25 gigapascals of pressure

Glass, by definition, is amorphous; its atoms lack order and are arranged every which way. But when scientists squeezed tiny samples of a metallic glass under high pressure, they got a surprise: The atoms ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Strong, tough and now cheap: New way to process metallic glass developed (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stronger than steel or titanium -- and just as tough -- metallic glass is an ideal material for everything from cell-phone cases to aircraft parts. Now, researchers at the California Institute ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 25 | with audio podcast

AGC creates 15% lighter glass for mobile devices

(PhysOrg.com) -- Asahi Glass Co. (AGC), a Tokyo-based makers of flat glass, automotive glass, display glass, chemicals and other high-tech materials and components, has announced the creation of a the world's ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Stronger than steel, novel metals are moldable as plastic

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a material that's stronger than steel, but just as versatile as plastic, able to take on a seemingly endless variety of forms. For decades, materials scientists have been trying to ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

New glass tops steel in strength and toughness

(PhysOrg.com) -- Glass stronger and tougher than steel? A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of any known material, has been developed and tested ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 10, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (32) | comments 26 | with audio podcast

Taiwan flora show features high-tech displays

(AP) -- Paper-thin speakers blare pop music. Three-D films appear on elongated screens with no need for special viewing glasses. Viewers' pulses turn cocoons into butterflies in an interactive display.

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Dec 14, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers demystify glasses by studying crystals

Glass is something we all know about. It's what we sip our drinks from, what we look out of to see what the weather is like before going outside and it is the backbone to our high speed communications infrastructure (optical ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Feds are investigating drinking glasses with lead

(AP) -- Federal regulators launched an investigation Monday into lead levels in drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters, declaring that the items are subject to standards for "children's ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Cadmium, lead found in drinking glasses

(AP) -- Drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman and the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz" exceed federal limits for lead in children's products by up to 1,000 ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Apple takes gulp of strong, glossy Liquidmetal

(AP) -- Apple Inc. is getting exclusive access to an exotic metallic material that could provide it with shiny, super-tough computer and phone casings.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (9) | comments 5

Heavy metal glass helps light go the distance

The fiber optic cable networks linking the world are an essential part of modern life. To keep up with ever-increasing demands for more bandwidth, scientists are working to improve the optical amplifiers that boost fiber ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 16, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Metallic Glass Yields Secrets Under Pressure

(PhysOrg.com) -- Metallic glasses are emerging as potentially useful materials at the frontier of materials science research. They combine the advantages and avoid many of the problems of normal metals and ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Mar 16, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast