Sol-gel manufacturing can be used to create various high-performance solids including glasses and ceramics. In the field of glass production, sol-gel techniques are a reliable low-temperature ...

2022 is the international year of glass. And yet many glass factories are struggling to survive. High energy costs and considerable CO2 emissions mean that glass production faces a challenging future.

Humans have been chemically modifying their world for far longer than you might think. Long before they had the slightest idea of what was happening chemically, they were turning clay into bricks, ...

A materials scientist at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany has been awarded a prestigious "ERC Proof of Concept Grant" from the European Research Council to further develop and refine a ...

Physically speaking, glass is a rather unusual material. Most solid materials are significantly ‘ordered’ with their constituent molecules or atoms in a regular arrangement, repeating patterns called ...

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: Air Liquide (Paris:AI) will implement for Verallia, the European leader and the world’s third largest producer of glass packaging for beverages and food ...

A HUNDRED years ago the United States Government wrote into the homestead law the provision that a four-paned glass window should be built into every cabin. Dedicated to improving the common lot of ...

Optics and photonics society SPIE has chosen Schott as the winner of its latest “Catalyst Award”, after the Germany-headquartered glass giant showed it is possible to make optical-grade glass with ...

The Seattle Times reports on the repercussions of glass recycling from Ardagh Glass Packaging Plant’s closure. The crushed glass is either being stockpiled, put in landfills or used in road ...