(Nanowerk News) Characterizing and predicting how electrically-heated silicate glass behaves is important because it is used in a variety of devices that drive technical innovations. Silicate glass is ...

Silicate glass has many applications, including the use as a nuclear waste form to immobilize radioactive elements from spent fuel. However, it has one disadvantage -- it corrodes when it comes into ...

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have emerged as an indispensable tool for unraveling the atomistic origins of silicate glass behaviour. By tracking the trajectories of individual atoms under ...

Scientists have discovered that an established property of physics can be broken in glass, but only under certain conditions. Silicate glass is something that we interact with on a regular basis, most ...

(Nanowerk News) Structure of amorphous materials clarified. This project has so far been a big challenge due to the complexity of this material class. Modern preparation methods in combination with ...

Glass might soon have some competition from an unlikely rival – bamboo. Scientists in China have turned regular old bamboo into a transparent material that’s also resistant to fire and water, and ...

If you've ever poured hot water into a Pyrex glass dish and been shocked to see it fracture before your eyes, a new report may give you some insight into what's going on. Pyrex glassware, which came ...

Movie studios archive thousands of movies in their warehouses. But celluloid, the medium onto which master copies are printed, isn't the most stable storage format; it's prone to decay and is highly ...

In contrast to Microsoft’s new Edge browser, natural-language querying in Excel and other near-term Microsoft innovations, one of the more interesting announcements you won’t see anytime soon is ...

A group of scientists have discovered that electrically-heated common, homogeneous silicate glasses appear to defy Joule's first law. Characterizing and predicting how electrically-heated silicate ...