Experimental 'short cut' reduces from millennia to minutes the time needed to measure glass viscosity
Monday, February 16, 2015 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the MATGAS research centre, the Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza" and the Politecnico di Milano have designed a method which indirectly measures the viscosity of glass - something that required unfeasible observation times at human scale - based on its elastic properties. The results of the research, published this week in PNAS, questions the validity of current theories of glass formation