2022 is the international year of glass. And yet many glass factories are struggling to survive. High energy costs and considerable CO 2 emissions mean that glass production faces a challenging future ...

The team's printing process presents a climate friendlier option for silica glass manufacturing. Typical additive manufacturing processes for glass require polymer mixtures that must be burned away ...

Glass can be recycled infinitely without losing any of its properties. Why, then, are most countries — with the exception of those in Europe — still burying most of their glass as landfill by the ...

Sol-gel manufacturing can be used to create various high-performance solids including glasses and ceramics. In the field of glass production, sol-gel techniques are a reliable low-temperature ...