Lightning and volcanos each produce glass, and people have been making glass from silicon dioxide since prehistory. Industrialization introduced us boron-based glasses, polymer glasses and metallic glasses, however now a global staff of researchers has developed a brand new household of glass based mostly on metals and natural compounds that ...

With two billion individuals worldwide missing entry to scrub and protected consuming water, new analysis might supply a breakthrough resolution. Steel-organic frameworks (MOFs), a next-generation materials with the biggest inside floor space of any recognized substance, can be utilized to seize, retailer and launch chemical compounds -- on this case, ...