Glass ranks as one of the most important materials of our age. You have only to think about smartphones, or drinking glasses, or look out of the window to realise that glass in its various forms is ...

One of the major concerns of material scientists and technologists nowadays is to understand the fundamental processes of thin film nanostructuration. Plasma-assisted thin film deposition is of ...

Researchers have developed a computational approach for simulating interactions between matter and light at the atomic scale. The team tested their method by modeling light -- matter interactions in a ...

A German-Algerian research team has been investigating ways to produce silicon from diatomite, a fossil material containing amorphous silicon dioxide. The researchers said that, for potential solar ...

Often called "white carbon", amorphous precipitated silica is an integral component of the tread compound used for fuel-efficient tires. The manufacturing process for amorphous precipitated silica is ...

(Nanowerk News) Structure of amorphous materials clarified. This project has so far been a big challenge due to the complexity of this material class. Modern preparation methods in combination with ...