Glass & Ceramics Lab - Trento

23/06/2020

Congratulations to Balanand who today defended his PhD thesis on polymer-derived thermal insulators. It was a great presentation and got an excellent score “cum laude”!
We wish him all the best for his future. Good luck, Dr. Balanand!!!

15/06/2020

New super-thermal insulators developed at the "Glass & Ceramics Lab"!!!

Nowadays, the best thermal insulators are aerogel-based materials. However, their industrial application is constrained by a complex synthesis route (…

22/05/2020

Have you ever noticed white stains on old glasses? Those are a result of glass corrosion in humid environment, also known as weathering. Alkali or alkaline earth in the glass composition dissolve in water and then precipitate forming crystals on the glass surface. Most often these are composed by CaCO3, whose orthorhombic polymorph (aragonite) possesses a fascinating crystal habit! Have a look to the surface of this “corroded” glass!

23/04/2020

Be amazed as Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman introduce us to a whole new way of thinking about glass. Learn the history of glass innovation and watch incredibl...

30/03/2020

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“Severe unintended negative consequences”.

18/03/2020

A very elegant class on glass. I suggest you to take a look and also try to see all the other classes from this professsor

This page contains materials for the session introducing amorphous materials. It features a 1-hour lecture video, and also presents the prerequisites, learning objectives, reading assignment, lecture slides, homework with solutions, and resources for further study.

18/03/2020

Congratulations to our master students Andrea Ometto and Consuelo Tavonatti who graduated today with an excellent mark!!! We wish them a bright future! … and we look forward to celebrate with them ASAP!

17/03/2020

Do you know how cuttlefishes move up and down in the sea?

They use their bone as a buoyancy tank. By regulating the pressure of the liquid-gas mixture inside their bone, they maintain their vertical position underwater.

The cuttlebone is an extra-light cellular material (up to 90% of interconnected porosity ) made of aragonite, which is a polymorph of calcium carbonate.

At the Glass and Ceramics Lab, Francesca Cestari and Giovanni Chemello use it to synthesize new materials for human bone regeneration.

16/03/2020

16/03/2020

New insights into electric heating of glasses by Mattia Biesuz, Mattia Cipriani, Gian Domenico Sorarù and Vincenzo M. Sglavo.

The paper "Electrode-dependent Joule heating in soda lime silicate glass during flash processes" has been pubblished in Scripta Materialia:

https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1ajZw4r9TD%7EpH2

Electric current-assisted technologies stand as a promising route to reduce the carbon footprint of the 21st century industry. Nevertheless, recent ac…

15/03/2020

Sempre sul pezzo!