Transparent oxide glass with rubber-like property
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 06:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Flexible substances that can withstand high temperatures are much sought after for various industrial and engineering applications. Types of glass made from oxides are hard at room temperature and fracture easily, but scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Asahi Glass Co. Ltd in Yokohama have uncovered a certain kind of oxide glass – so-called mixed alkali metaphosphate glass – that behaves quite differently when it is stretched from a supercooled liquid state.
