In probing mysteries of glass, researchers find a key to toughness

Date: 11 March 2013
Source: www.yale.edu
Glass doesn’t have to be brittle.- In a paper published online Feb. 26 in the journal Nature Communications, a Yale University team and collaborators propose a way of predicting whether a given glass will be brittle or ductile — a desirable property typically associated with metals like steel or aluminum — and assert that any glass could have either quality.      Read the full article here.

Glass doesn’t have to be brittle.- In a paper published online Feb. 26 in the journal Nature Communications, a Yale University team and collaborators propose a way of predicting whether a given glass will be brittle or ductile — a desirable property typically associated with metals like steel or aluminum — and assert that any glass could have either quality.     

 

Read the full article here.

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