Polystyrene has a glass transition temperature of about 100 C -- at room temperature it behaves like a solid material. But as its temperature approaches the glass transition temperature, polystyrene’s ...

A team of physicists has computationally constructed a two-dimensional material that behaves like a paradox: it is disordered ...

A class of glass that cannot crystallize, even given infinite time, is forcing physicists to rethink some of the oldest ...

Glasses with transitional lenses are a neat idea in theory, but they have some shortcomings in practice. That's why researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing an alternative – ...

For millennia, people have used molten sand and other ingredients to create glass and fashion beads, vessels, lenses and windows. These days, metallic glasses - made entirely of metal atoms - are ...

Changes in a liquid as it becomes a glass are related to repulsion between atoms as they are crowded together. Although scientists have long believed the poorly understood glass transition must have ...

Blessed are those with perfect vision, but the rest of us poor, nearly blind souls know the torture that is looking for sunglasses when we already have to wear glasses. The options are Fitovers that ...

Pair potentials of PMMA spheres. (A) Pair potential U(r) as function of center-to-center distance at 27°C extracted from radial distribution function g(r) (fig. S1 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 21, 2017 -- Polymers are used for myriad applications today, and perhaps the most important property that dictates which polymer is chosen for a given application is its "glass ...