By texturing glass surfaces with nanosized features, scientists almost completely eliminated surface reflections–an achievement that could enhance solar cell efficiency, improve electr... Read more
Rutgers professor Ashutosh Goel invents way to contain radioactive iodine How do you handle nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millions of years, keeping it from harming people and t... Read more
Australian researchers at the University of Adelaide have developed a method for embedding light-emitting nanoparticles into glass without losing any of their unique properties – a major ste... Read more
The field of 3D printing is still largely the domain of major companies in need of easier prototyping methods and hobbyists. But a new breakthrough could vastly expand the technology’... Read more
Only Solution to Independently Control Light and Heat Marks a New Generation of Energy Efficient Glass Heliotrope Technologies, a partner of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), tod... Read more
This marks the first time researchers have shown a glass implant strong enough to bear weight can also integrate with bone and promote bone growth Researchers at Missouri University of Scien... Read more
Coined as the ‘Superman’ memory crystal, as the glass memory has been compared to the “memory crystals” used in the Superman films Using nanostructured glass, scienti... Read more
Bodelin Technologies has unveiled a new product that turns your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad into a fully functional microscope. The microscope itself has precision optical glass and supports... Read more
Cleverly, the translucence of the glass can be altered where desired so that certain parts of the building’s facade can behave more like conventional windows When I first glimpsed the... Read more
New gadgets — I mean whole new gadget categories — don’t come along very often. The iPhone was one recent example. You could argue that the iPad was another. But if there’s anything at all a... Read more
Where Willow Glass differs from Gorilla Glass, however, is its unusual thinness and flexibility Corning announced details of a major new glass design at the eighth annual Display Week... Read more
They’re all about to come to market over the next two years . . . It’s hard to think of glass as an area of rapid technology evolution. But it’s one of the central technolo... Read more
A major breakthrough in glass-making technology Ever since Apple asked Corning to build scratchless glass screens for the original iPhone, the development of glass has been a major focus of... Read more
Weighs about 50 percent less than ordinary glass Helmond, Netherlands-based Glass Deco International recently introduced a new glass that it claims, tongue-in-cheek, is most definitely not “... Read more
