Guest JBaymore Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Ceramic related....... (alumino-silicate stuff is "ceramic").... but not yet into our exact world. Wonder where this will go? http://phys.org/news/2015-11-glass-tough-steel.html best, .......................john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilestrick Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Very interesting! That's going to be some expensive glass, though. Not a simple process, and Tantalum is quite rare, one-fifteenth as common as gold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Coyle Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 I'd be surprised if it goes anywhere very soon. The forming process sounds pretty hairy. It would be like a kiln full of pots floating around on top of exactly controlled air jets. So many of these things never make it out of the lab, but if the market is there, it probably could be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High Bridge Pottery Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 What do you mean, sounds simple to suspend the glass in oxygen gas and mix it with laser spatulas Crazy stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 I'm thinking: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pres Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 Hmmm, we should have seen this coming! Think Star Trek, The Long Voyage Home. All the trekkies will be all over this.. Seriously this sort of thing has a ton of applications in future world. Subs, space ships, all sorts of stuff we can't even imagine. The science has been available for a while, but the technology to do it . .. Wow, this is way out there, but leading the way. Sounds like to me the technique owes some of its thinking to plasma technologies being developed. best, Pres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pres Posted November 5, 2015 Report Share Posted November 5, 2015 OOoops, did not realize your clip was from the Long Voyage Home, John. So many of the Star Trek movies and series have been way ahead in forecasting our future. Word is that tricorder like devices are just around the corner, and robotic health care tables are on their way with constant scans guiding the treatments. Hmmm makes you wonder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Miller Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 It's always cool to read about stuff like this. I suspect the applications for this particular process may be in engineering newer, tougher touch screens, as the current technology's reached a bit of a bottleneck. Transparent aluminum, btw, has been invented since Star Trek IV came out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curt Posted November 6, 2015 Report Share Posted November 6, 2015 My laser spatula has been broken for a while, but results from my latest wood firing suggest that some of my pots have attempted to enter the levitation phase autonomously.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Kopyscinski Posted November 13, 2015 Report Share Posted November 13, 2015 John, Your post reminded me of this picture. Cheers, Don Kopyscinski Bear Hills Pottery Newtown, CT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Kopyscinski Posted November 14, 2015 Report Share Posted November 14, 2015 John, I was with you till I read: <<The high elastic modulus and hardness are attributed to both the large cationic field strength of Ta5+ ions and the large dissociation energies per unit volume of Al2O3 and Ta2O5.>> It reminds me of the time I tried to read "Introductiin to Ceramics" - by W. David Kingery straight through. ( the only ceramic text I ever exchanged because I was in a bit over my head ). I'm glad someone knows this stuff, but it does get deep rather quickly. Cheers, Don Kopyscinski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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