Science news articles about 'glassy materials'

... a puzzle for 10 years now," Argonne physicist Raymond Osborn said. Conventional wisdom states that glassy materials, such as common window glass, result when frustration prevents ...

... oil, a thickness of four nanometers was required before the properties were like those of a glassy material. “We observed a nonlinear viscoelastic behavior remarkably similar to that widely observed ...

... , and these wires must be separated by a highly efficient insulator. One candidate is a porous glassy material called SOG* that can be applied as a thin fluid film. When heated, SOG turns into a thin ...

The history of glass dates back 5,000 years, yet its nature still perplexes scientists. How do glassy materials make the transition from a molten state to a solid? Richard Wool ...

... East sometime around 3000 B.C. However, almost 5,000 years later, scientists are still perplexed about how glassy materials make the transition from a molten state to a solid. ...