Jan 12 2011What Is This, The Future?!: Scientists Develop Glass That's Allegedly Stronger Than Steel
I know, I thought it was an x-ray of a dog fart too.
Scientists: they're untrustworthy and you have to take everything they say with a grain of salt. Or, in this case, a shard of glass. But allegedly a group of the lab-coated coots have developed a glass that's stronger than steel -- and bends instead of breaking. I'LL BELIEVE IT WHEN I HAVE A BEER BOTTLE WRAPPED AROUND MY HEAD.
"These results mark the first use of a new strategy for metallic glass fabrication and we believe we can use it to make glass that will be even stronger and more tough," says Robert Ritchie, a materials scientist who led the Berkeley contribution to the research.
The new metallic glass is a microalloy featuring palladium, a metal with a high "bulk-to-shear" stiffness ratio that counteracts the intrinsic brittleness of glassy materials."Because of the high bulk-to-shear modulus ratio of palladium-containing material, the energy needed to form shear bands is much lower than the energy required to turn these shear bands into cracks," Ritchie says. "The result is that glass undergoes extensive plasticity in response to stress, allowing it to bend rather than crack."
Neato. But can I get a house built out of it? I want see-through everything: walls, floors, ceilings, you name it. Except for the bathroom, that's my private sanctuary. You think I don't have one of those little rock gardens on the back of the toilet tank? YOU DON'T KNOW ME! I used to have a bonsai tree too but my roommate's gas f***ing killed it.
New Glass Tops Steel in Strength and Toughness [berkleylab]
Thanks to ultrapony, who invented glasses that can correct a person's vision. WHOA WHOA WHOA -- SLOW DOWN WIT'CHA CRAZY TALK!
Reader Comments
1. Hellhound - January 12, 2011 5:44 PM
Damn first again twice 2 day
2. Hellhound - January 12, 2011 5:45 PM
I have something that is stronger than steel!
3. bah - January 12, 2011 5:46 PM
@1
Nice successful day, huh?
4. Hellhound - January 12, 2011 5:49 PM
@3 yeah 4 a few days there geekologie hasnt had any post but as of yesterday and 2 day there r more than I can handle.
I would compare it to a mild case of constipated diarrhea at first it wont come out then u fart and the shit goes everywhere....
5. Saxton Hale - January 12, 2011 6:00 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, we are now living in the times of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
6. McFeely Smackup - January 12, 2011 6:10 PM
We're living in 1986?
7. Dorko - January 12, 2011 6:15 PM
Made with Palladium. Palladium's spot price is $810 per Troy ounce.
Just what we need. Million Dollar windows!!!
Skip windows. They are going to be obsolete soon anyway. Quad Hi-Def Camera's and LCD monitors are the neat future of windows. Besides, you can change the scenery with a virtual LCD window. Rainy out? Nope it's a beautiful sunny day in Tahiti.
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9. Louis - January 12, 2011 6:34 PM
I'm going to develop some steel that's stronger than glass.
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10. Richard McBeef - January 12, 2011 6:51 PM
Yeah but can it be used to make a bong that doesn't break if it drop it?
11. jimmy sevnek - January 12, 2011 6:51 PM
yes totally agree with Saxton Hale on this one !
12. Valen - January 12, 2011 6:53 PM
you know its a metallic glass right.
IE its not see through
They have been around since the 70's and iron (aka steel) usually makes up a decent % of the material.
13. Tennist0 - January 12, 2011 6:55 PM
Scientists: Probing Uranus and lying since 2011
14. Rubber Chicken Mother Fucker - January 12, 2011 6:56 PM
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15. Brownout - January 12, 2011 7:00 PM
Scotty would be proud
16. the_tof - January 12, 2011 7:34 PM
Aw nuts, for a minute when I saw that pic I thought Seal had come out with a new video.
17. Ed - January 12, 2011 8:13 PM
LOL millions of uses . . . until you factor in the price and rarity of palladium.
18. c45j - January 12, 2011 9:29 PM
looks like a face with stuff spewing out the nose, mouth, and chin.
19. Amaranth - January 12, 2011 9:38 PM
that shit looks like a nipple squirting milk
20. Jimmy - January 12, 2011 9:44 PM
Ummm, borosilicate already has a higher tensile strength than steel and a higher compresion strength than concrete. I doubt they are making it stonger at all, just less fragile.
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22. photoshop-police - January 13, 2011 10:42 AM
Transparent Aluminum?
'Keyboard... how quaint'
23. Stuart McCracken - January 13, 2011 11:47 AM
It's an amorphous alloy. It's still quite conductive (it's an alloy after all), but lacks any consistent large-scale order (i.e no consistent crystal structure). Since it's conductive like a metal (e.g. its bandgap is metallic), it'd have a similar appearance as a metal (i.e. opaque like a metal). The term "glass" is a general term (often interchanged with "amorphous"), and does not refer specifically to the silica-based material that we're all familiar with; that is, "glass" is to "car" what "soda-lime glass" is to "Ford" -- metallic glass would be "Ferrari" in this situation.
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25. Billbo - January 14, 2011 9:48 AM
Engineering Officer Scotty needs some to build a whale tank in the Klingon Bird Of Prey to house 2 hump back whales to bring back to the future to save the planet.
So I guess it is supposedly stronger than the transparent aluminum Scotty divulged the technology of in Star Trek 4.
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27. Storm - January 17, 2011 12:39 AM
This is excellent news to me. I need something better than bulletproof glass in my armor to protect my eyes from the army's bullets when I go conquer my first country.
28. jizmodo - January 20, 2011 12:38 AM
wait ...what? are you saying that is not a baboon monkey blowing bubbles in that picture?