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Nanoglasses: A New Kind of Noncrystalline Material and the Way to an Age of New Technologies?
Author(s) -
Gleiter Herbert
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
small
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.785
H-Index - 236
eISSN - 1613-6829
pISSN - 1613-6810
DOI - 10.1002/smll.201500899
Subject(s) - materials science , microstructure , semiconductor , nanometre , nanotechnology , chemical engineering , composite material , optoelectronics , engineering
Today's technologies are primarily based on crystalline materials (metals, semiconductors, etc.), as their properties can be controlled by varying their chemical and/or defect microstructures. This is not possible in today's glasses. The new features of nanoglasses—consisting of nanometer‐sized glassy regions connected by interfaces—are that their properties may be controlled by varying their chemical and/or defect microstructures, and that their interfaces have a new kind of non‐crystalline structure. By utilizing these new features, an age of new technologies based on non‐crystalline materials (a “glass age”) may be initiated.