Image of rough colloidal ellipsoids, the systems investigated by the researchers. Credit: Liang et al The so-called glass transition is the process by which some liquid-like materials become ...

If you've ever watched a glass blower at work, you've seen a material behaving in a very special way. As it cools, the viscosity of molten glass increases steadily but gradually, allowing it to be ...

(Nanowerk News) Glasses are peculiar materials exhibiting excellent and well-known properties, but also some phenomena that are still not fully understood, even though they have been studied for more ...