Aluminum oxide or alumina is the fruit fly of materials science: thoroughly researched and well-understood. This compound, with the simple chemical formula Al 2 O 3, occurs frequently in Earth's crust ...

The transmittance results, the mechanical properties, and microstructure of the annealed samples are presented. An increase in Al₂O₃ and SiO₂ content effectively reduces the monoclinic phase fraction ...

An international team of researchers has found a way to make bendable glass using lasers fired at crystalline aluminum oxide. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their ...

Researchers have found that aluminum oxide glass can flex and stretch without breaking (Science 2019, DOI: 10.1126/science.aav1254). Most glass is made of silica, an amorphous solid in which atoms are ...

Tricky technique: the new glass was made using pulsed laser deposition. (Courtesy: Jonne Renvall and Erkka Frankberg) Flexible glass that does not shatter on impact could soon be made using insights ...

Aluminum oxide, which is commonly called alumina, is an inert, odorless, white amorphous material often used in industrial ceramics. Alumina is an important ceramic material for industrial ...

Empa researchers led by Simon Gramatte (front) and Vladyslav Turlo have succeeded for the first time in simulating amorphous aluminum oxide with hydrogen inclusions with atomic precision. Aluminum ...

Researchers used experiments and machine learning to accurately model the disordered atomic structure of amorphous aluminum oxide for the first time. A special feature of aluminum oxide is its ability ...