We use glass for a lot of things. We use it to brighten up the rooms of our house by creating windows that let sunlight in. But glass has some inherent problems that scientists have been trying to ...

It may not be as catchy a name as Iron Man, but in a fight you might be better off betting on Glass DNA Nanolattice Man instead. Engineers at the University of Connecticut have developed a very strong ...

The best way to understand glass is to understand how it is made. The first step to make glass requires heating up a mixture of minerals – often soda ash, limestone and quartz sand – until they melt ...

In design theory, extensive use of Glass is often avoided on south-facing facades in the Northern Hemisphere (or north-facing facades in the Southern Hemisphere) due to the risk of heat gain caused by ...

Researchers have succeeded in creating a new class of hybrid glass materials that combine organic and inorganic components. To do this, the scientists use special material combinations in which ...

Glass substrates are gaining attention as a structural alternative to organic build-up films/cores in advanced semiconductor ...

Lots of glass surfaces can brighten up a room, but it also lets in too much heat as well as neighbors’ prying eyes. A new metamaterial is not only more transparent to light, but adds privacy, cools ...

Carnegie's Yingwei Fei and Lin Wang were part of an international research team that synthesized a new ultrahard form of carbon glass with a wealth of potential practical applications for devices and ...

Glass making dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, an astonishing 4,000 years ago. Known as “humankind’s most important material,” 1 glass is ubiquitous in our modern environment. It is used in the ...