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Researcher pulling from past to shape future of glass research
July 10, 2018 by David Kubarek, Pennsylvania State University
 
 

Glass has been a part of society for thousands of years, so it is easy for this material to become invisible and overlooked, but a Penn State materials scientist has laid out a plan to map the glass genome and advance the future of glass.

The effort is part of the Materials Genome Initiative, which is trying to double the speed of developing new materials.

John Mauro, professor of materials science and engineering at Penn State, is building a set of predictive modeling tools combining knowledge from glass physics and chemistry, to map the building blocks and properties of glass, much like efforts to understand the human genome. His team is already building a strong foundation for understanding glass composition, structure and property relationships in industrially relevant systems. He reports his results in a recent issue of Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science.


Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-07-future-glass.html#jCp