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Invention Summary: Brittleness of glass has been perceived as its gravest handicap in the glass technology space. While the glass industry has always strived to design a "hard" and "crack-resistant" glass, it has been generally accepted by glass scientists that it is hard to achieve both these properties in the...

Published: 10/22/2024 | Inventor(s): Ashutosh Goel, Anjali Yadav

Keywords(s): Glass & Ceramics

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering

Method for Sintering Ultrahigh Melting Temperature Covalent Non-oxide Ceramics

Parallel plate capacitor configuration used to apply an electric field and to achieve low-temperature sintering of a non-oxide ceramic (B4C) Invention Summary: Bulk and composite structural ceramics can be fabricated by sintering, forming particulate matter into a desired shape and then subjecting the formed body to high temperatures (2/3 of the...

Published: 12/4/2024 | Inventor(s): Thomas Tsakalakos, Enver Akdoğan, Ilyas Savkliyildiz, Hulya Bicer, William Paxton, Bart Visser, Lawrence Kabacoff

Keywords(s): Glass & Ceramics, Manufacturing

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering, Technology Classifications > Polymers/Composites/Materials

Damage Resistant Glass-Ceramic

This material has better hardness and crack resistance than any commercially available glass Invention Summary: Rutgers University researchers have developed an Al2O3 rich damage resistant glasses and glass-ceramics, which exhibit Vickers hardness of >7 GPa and do not crack at loads as high as 2000 gf (19.6 N). The resistance to fracture is...

Published: 6/13/2024 | Inventor(s): Ashutosh Goel

Keywords(s): Glass & Ceramics, Manufacturing

Category(s): Technology Classifications > Physical Sciences & Engineering