John C. Mauro
Dr. John C. Mauro is Dorothy Pate Enright Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. John earned a B.S. in Glass Engineering Science (2001), B.A. in Computer Science (2001), and Ph.D. in Glass Science (2006), all from Alfred University. He joined Corning Incorporated in 1999 and served in multiple roles there, including Senior Research Manager of the Glass Research department. John is the inventor or co-inventor of several new glass compositions for Corning, including Corning Gorilla® Glass products. John joined the faculty at Penn State in 2017 and is currently a world-recognized expert in fundamental and applied glass science, statistical mechanics, computational and condensed matter physics, thermodynamics and kinetics, and the topology of disordered networks. John is the author of over 380 peer-reviewed publications and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society. He is co-author of Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses, 3rd ed. (Elsevier, 2019), the definitive textbook on glass science and technology, and author of the newly published textbook, Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena (Elsevier, 2021). John is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors with 83 granted U.S. patents. John is also a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the Society of Glass Technology. He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and the World Academy of Ceramics.
Abstract Title: Glass for a Sustainable Future
Abstract:
Glass has proven to be a critically important material for the development of contemporaryhuman civilization. Its influence continues to grow as new glass products and processes are developed toaddress global challenges in energy, the environment, healthcare, information technology, and more. Despiterecent advances in glass science and technology, major challenges remain with respect to the sustainability ofthe glass industry, which generates more than 86 million tons of carbon dioxide annually. In this presentation, Iwill describe my own personal journey in glass from Alfred, New York to Happy Valley, Pennsylvania. Afterreviewing some recent advances in glass physics and chemistry, we’ll peer into our glass (not “crystal”) ball todiscuss future glass technologies for a more sustainable future. The latter part of the presentation will introduceLionGlass, Penn State’s patent-pending glass compositional family that offers, for the first time, an alternativeto standard soda lime silicate glass for reducing the carbon footprint of the glass industry by ~50%. LionGlassachieves this goal by lowering the melting temperature of everyday glass products by 400°C and eliminatingthe use of carbonate batch materials. LionGlass also offers 10× improvement in damage resistance comparedto soda lime silicate, enabling the lightweighting of everyday glass products.