News tagged with soft glass


Nano 'balls' can be used to manipulate the properties of glass

Nano 'balls' can be used to manipulate the properties of glass

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 09, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Liquid or glass, hard or soft -- researchers at the University of Twente, The Netherlands, are investigating a new 'model material' that can adopt a series of different properties. This is ...





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A glass of wine can help find new mineral deposits

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 13, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The key to finding new mineral deposits in Australia could be to start looking with a glass of wine or a soft drink.


Materials scientists find better model for glass creation

Materials scientists find better model for glass creation

Physics / Condensed Matter

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

(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.


Bioactive glass nanofibers produced

Bioactive glass nanofibers produced

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

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 ...


Physicists Find a World of Motion In the Mystery of Aging Glass

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (11) | comments 1

(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.


Getting wrapped up in solar textiles

Technology / Energy

created Jun 09, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute ...


Glass Thermometers Still a Safety Hazard

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by emergency physicians at Children's Hospital Boston provides a wakeup call to parents to get rid of their old glass thermometers. A 12year review of patients seen in Children's emergency department ...


Inserting Catheters Without X-rays

Inserting Catheters Without X-rays

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

X-rays penetrate the patient's body, helping the doctor guide the catheter through the artery. In future, it will be possible to monitor the position of the catheter without exposing the patient to X-ray radiation, ...


Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil

Ancient muscle tissue extracted from 18 million year old fossil

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have extracted organically preserved muscle tissue from an 18 million years old salamander fossil. The discovery by researchers from University College Dublin, the UK and Spain, ...


Rare earth metal enhances phosphate glass

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colorless, ...


Of traffic jams, beach sands and the zero-temperature jamming transition

Physics / Condensed Matter

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers in condensed matter physics at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago have created an experimental and computer model to study how jamming, the physical process in which collections of particles ...



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