By mixing superfine particles of silica glass into various polymer liquids, Wagner created solutions that add strength to Kevlar and other fabrics. (discovermagazine.com)
Faccio and his colleagues created the event horizons in a two - centimeter - long section of fused silica glass, a medium in which intense laser pulses can locally perturb the refractive index, or speed of light passing through the material. (scientificamerican.com)
Researchers precisely measured the rapid transformation of a fused silica glass into stishovite using SLAC's X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source. (sciencedaily.com)