functional glasses

Cracking the corrosion code: Graphene coating could help mitigate glass damage

By Stephanie Liverani / November 8, 2016

Researchers from the Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials at the Institute for Basic Science in South Korea say that a novel graphene coating might help solve challenges with glass corrosion.

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Video: This glass skateboard doesn’t crack under half-pipe pressure

By Stephanie Liverani / October 5, 2016

In their YouTube series, “You make it, we skate it,” Braille Skateboarding put a bulletproof glass skateboard to the test—and the board held its own at the skate park.

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Glass genome opens up new opportunities for functional glasses with tailored properties

By April Gocha / June 23, 2016

Scientists at Corning Inc. (Corning, N.Y.) and Aalborg University (Aalborg, Denmark) have turned to computer modeling to help develop a glass-specific genome that will allow exploration and tailoring of specific properties of functional glasses.

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