Transparent origami glass

Yang Xu; Ye Li; Ning Zheng; Qian Zhao; Tao Xie

doi:10.1038/s41467-021-24559-x

Nature Communications (Jul 2021)

Transparent origami glass

Yang Xu,
Ye Li,
Ning Zheng,
Qian Zhao,
Tao Xie

Affiliations

Yang Xu: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University
Ye Li: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University
Ning Zheng: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University
Qian Zhao: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University
Tao Xie: State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24559-x
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Glass is indispensable but its processing options are limited. Here the authors extend origami techniques to shaping three-dimensional transparent glass by introducing physical cavitation and chemical dynamic bond exchange in the pre-glass polymer-silica nanocomposites.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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