Engineers turns metal into glass: New process solves an age-old conundrum
Thursday, August 14, 2014 - 05:01
in Physics & Chemistry
Materials scientists have long sought to form glass from pure, monoatomic metals. Now a team of researchers has done it. Metallic glasses are unique in that their structure is not crystalline (as it is in most metals), but rather is disordered, with the atoms randomly arranged. They are sought for various commercial applications because they are very strong and are easily processed.