title: Nanoglasses: A New Kind of Noncrystalline Material and the Way to an Age of New Technologies?
abstract: Today's technologies are primarily based on crystalline materials (metals, semiconductors, etc.), as their properties can be controlled by varying their chemical and/or defect microstructures. This is not possible in today's glasses. The new features of nanoglasses--consisting of nanometer-sized glassy regions connected by interfaces--are that their properties may be controlled by varying their chemical and/or defect microstructures, and that their interfaces have a new kind of non-crystalline structure. By utilizing these new features, an age of new technologies based on non-crystalline materials (a "glass age") may be initiated.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), PO Box 36 40, 76021, Karlsruhe, Germany.|Institute of Nanoscience, Building 340, Nanjing University of Science and Technology Nanjing, Jiangsu 2, 10094, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gleiter
keywords: crystalline materials; nanoglasses; non-crystalline materials