Nowadays, 3D printers can extrude a lot of different substances. Ranging from food to metals, the list is growing at an exponential rate. Now another unfamiliar addition has been made to that list: glass. While powdered glass and silica have already been extruded by 3D printers, this will be the first time molten glass is…
Tag: glass
2 Atoms thick Glass; World’s thinnest
A small pane of glass just two atoms thick has entered the 2014 Guinness Book of World Records as the thinnest sheet of glass in the world. According to a bit of research that was published in the American Chemical Society in 2012, but unearthed fairly recently as a result of the find making it into…