[PA-NJ Glassblowers] Corning Incorporated has created a new website http://theglassage.com
Tony Patti
gaffer at glassblower.info
Sat Nov 22 21:29:06 EST 2014
Corning (Incorporated, not the Museum) has created a new website
http://theglassage.com
John Mauro, Research Manager of Glass Research at Corning Incorporated said
it best when he posted on LinkedIn:
" If you like glass, you will love this new website: http://theglassage.com
"
The website contains awesome video, check it out!
Part 2 talks about the compressive strength of glass,
and specifically of Prince Rupert's Drops (about 3 minutes in),
including high speed video at 100,000 frames per second.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13B5K_lAabw>
Here is a bit of information from the "About" web page:
WELCOME TO THE GLASS AGE
Where one material can change the world.
Throughout history, materials have transformed society and culture. There
was the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. This is the Glass Age.
Where information moves at the speed of light. Where devices are as
sophisticated as they are beautiful. Where everyday surfaces provide
extraordinary benefits. Engineers, architects, artists, scientists, and
more are using glass to achieve the impossible. Where will the Glass Age
take you?
GLASS: THE QUINTESSENTIAL NANOTECH MATERIAL
Long before physicist Richard Feynman launched the nanotechnology era with
his 1959 assertion, "There's plenty of room at the bottom," people were
manipulating glass at the nano level - often without realizing it.
For thousands of years, artists have worked with glass because of how it
forms, feels, and handles light, while craftsmen have used glass for
practical applications because of its stability, impermeability, and
transparency. In the last century, scientists have made extraordinary
advances in the characterization and fabrication of glass, leading to
innovative applications in diverse fields such as architecture,
transportation, electronics, communications, and medicine.
How can one material do so much?
At its core, glass is quite simple. The primary building block of glass is
silica in the form of sand. But silica is an extremely gracious
collaborator with its friends on the Periodic Table. In fact, an overview of
glass research reveals that scientists have added more than 50 different
elements to silica to create glass compositions with unique attributes.
But composition is just the beginning. Scientists also use a broad range of
techniques such as irradiation, surface modification, and precise
temperature control to develop specialized glasses with different colors,
form factors, strengths, degrees of flexibility, and light-handling
abilities.
By fine-tuning the formulation and fabrication of glass, scientists can
unleash a nearly limitless stream of new capabilities. This tremendous
versatility has prompted scientist David Pye of Alfred University to
describe glass as "the quintessential nanotech material."
Enjoy,
Tony Patti
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