William LaCourse, emeritus professor of glass science engineering in Alfred University’s Inamori School of Engineering, delivered the first annual Varshneya Lecture on Glass Thursday morning, Oct. 16.
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Soviet-era glass tech that could outperform steel
In the middle of the twentieth century, Soviet and East German engineers quietly pushed glass far beyond the fragile material most people know from windows and wine glasses. Their experiments produced ...
If you combine two or three metals together, you will get an alloy that usually looks and acts like a metal, with its atoms arranged in rigid geometric patterns. But once in a while, under just the ...
Not everything about glass is clear. How its atoms are arranged and behave, in particular, is startlingly opaque. The problem is that glass is an amorphous solid, a class of materials that lies in the ...
Alfred University hosted the Glass Olympics Oct. 10-11, and the event was a success, drawing close to 220 students from 12 colleges and universities. The Glass Olympics brings together glass students ...
Manoj Choudhary, ScD ’80, can’t believe that most people look through glass without a second thought. To him, it’s humanity’s most important material. “No material combines utility and beauty like ...
Tags Glass Engineering And Science Glass Glass Art Homogeneous Chemical Mixtures Dielectrics Handicrafts Glassforming Liquids And Melts Glass Applications Crafts Amorphous Solids Optical Materials ...
The glass lantern Apple Store at Zorlu Center in Istanbul. Photo: Apple Apple has won another architectural award for the innovative glass engineering used to create its impossibly perfect glass ...
China Triumph International Engineering Co Ltd, the world's largest glass engineering service provider, has successfully launched an 800-metric-ton-per-day ultra-clear rolled photovoltaic (PV) glass ...
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