Reinventing Glass: A Breakthrough in Atomic Stability

Glass is increasingly utilized in various high-performance areas, covering consumer and industrial applications, military and aerospace electronics, as well as coatings and optics. Given the stringent accuracy required in products like mobile phones and jet aircraft, it’s crucial that glass substrates remain unaltered in shape throughout the manufacturing process.

Corning Incorporated, a manufacturer of innovative glass, ceramics, and related materials, invests a tremendous amount of resources into studying the stability of different types of glass. Recently, Corning researchers found that understanding the stability of the rings of atoms in glass materials can help them predict the performance of glass products. This capability is important because the most widely used glass is silicate glass, which consists of different sizes of atomic rings connected in three dimensions.