Toughening oxide glasses through paracrystallization

• Published in: Nature materials Vol. 22; no. 10; pp. 1189 - 1195
• Main Authors: Tang, Hu, Cheng, Yong, Yuan, Xiaohong, Zhang, Kai, Kurnosov, Alexander, Chen, Zhen, Xiao, Wenge, Jeppesen, Henrik S., Etter, Martin, Liang, Tao, Zeng, Zhidan, Wang, Fei, Fei, Hongzhan, Wang, Lin, Han, Songbai, Wang, Ming-Sheng, Chen, Guang, Sheng, Howard, Katsura, Tomoo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.10.2023; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 140/133; 140/146; 639/301/1023/218; 639/301/1023/303; Aluminosilicates; Aluminum silicates; Annealing; Biomaterials; Chemistry and Materials Science; Condensed Matter Physics; Crystals; Damage tolerance; Edge dislocations; Engineering research; Glass; High pressure; High temperature; Laboratories; Materials Science; Nanotechnology; Optical and Electronic Materials; Plastic deformation; Science; Shear bands

Glasses, unlike crystals, are intrinsically brittle due to the absence of microstructure-controlled toughening, creating fundamental constraints for their technological applications. Consequently, strategies for toughening glasses without compromising their other advantageous properties have been lo...