The Golden Gate bridge is made out of a relatively low strength steel, so it won't break when an earthquake rattles the Bay Area. When you have a structure, you tend not to use the higher strength one ...

Stronger than steel or titanium -- and just as tough -- metallic glass is an ideal material for everything from cell-phone cases to aircraft parts. Now, researchers have developed a new technique that ...

A tension-induced transformation converts a malleable crystal–glass composite into an extremely tough alloy Making metallic glasses less brittle at room temperature could allow their use as strong, ...

Bubbles in a champagne glass may add a festive fizz to the drink, but microscopic bubbles that form in a material called metallic glass can signal serious trouble. In this normally high-strength ...

Making a new material is one thing, explaining how you did it is another. Materials engineering Ph.D. candidate Jerry Howard excels at both. Howard developed a new “recipe” for making metallic glass ...

Structural metals are everywhere and, being a widely used commodity, new developments are often constrained by practical considerations like large-scale production and price. In an age where ...

Recently, I went with the SmartPlanet video crew to check out Robert Ritchie's lab at the University of California at Berkeley. Inside his small office, I tried bending one of the materials. One bent ...

A new type of damage-tolerant metallic glass, demonstrating a strength and toughness beyond that of steel or any other known material, has been developed. Glass stronger and tougher than steel? A new ...