“And with the resin added, transparent wood outperforms plastic and glass: In tests measuring how easily materials fracture or break under pressure, transparent wood came out around three times stronger than transparent plastics like Plexiglass and about 10 times tougher than glass.”
and what about vs gorilla glass or sapphire? Y’know, like the kinds of glass already used on smart phones?
Soda glass, you could just about step on, on a flat surface with no defects, and break it if there’s even mild deviation. Being stronger than glass is a VERY low or high bar depending on the glass.
Glass can be toughened up a bit by tempering, at a cost. It can be toughened up a lot by other methods up to being made bulletproof at costs both financial and in terms of compromises to clarity and adding a lot of thickness.
The question is whether ‘transparent wood’ can compete with glass in performance and cost.
“Glass” is not all the same. Gorilla glass is many times stronger than a window pane. Aluminum oxide crystals are called “glass” when they’re made to shape. Soda-lime glass is still called “glass”. “Glass” is an exceedingly poor metric to compare anything to, even other glass.
Given that industry likes deceptive trade names- ‘plexiglas’ for instance- transparent wood will probably be known as ‘lignoglass’ or some such nonsense.
“And with the resin added, transparent wood outperforms plastic and glass: In tests measuring how easily materials fracture or break under pressure, transparent wood came out around three times stronger than transparent plastics like Plexiglass and about 10 times tougher than glass.”
and what about vs gorilla glass or sapphire? Y’know, like the kinds of glass already used on smart phones?
Soda glass, you could just about step on, on a flat surface with no defects, and break it if there’s even mild deviation. Being stronger than glass is a VERY low or high bar depending on the glass.
Idk I was just quoting the article, you would have to ask the guy who said it
https://mse.umd.edu/clark/faculty/669/Liangbing-Hu
Glass can be toughened up a bit by tempering, at a cost. It can be toughened up a lot by other methods up to being made bulletproof at costs both financial and in terms of compromises to clarity and adding a lot of thickness.
The question is whether ‘transparent wood’ can compete with glass in performance and cost.
“Glass” is not all the same. Gorilla glass is many times stronger than a window pane. Aluminum oxide crystals are called “glass” when they’re made to shape. Soda-lime glass is still called “glass”. “Glass” is an exceedingly poor metric to compare anything to, even other glass.
I don’t want my glass to be made from gorillas.
Yeah! Gorillas are endangered!
Harambe died for our screens.
Given that industry likes deceptive trade names- ‘plexiglas’ for instance- transparent wood will probably be known as ‘lignoglass’ or some such nonsense.