Bending sheet glass using lasers and gravity Date: May 2, 2017 Source: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Summary: A new technique makes it possible to bend sheet glass into complex or unconventional shapes ...

New glass forms: bending sheet glass by laser and gravity 09 May 2017. Researchers take advantage of glass property of becoming malleable when exposed to high temperatures. ... This factors in options ...

Now, though, German scientists have developed a method of bending a single sheet of glass to a 90-degree angle – without affecting its optical properties. SUBSCRIBE LOG IN ...

There really was a glass sheet there but it didn’t become apparent until viewed from the side. The glass reflects just 0.08 percent of the light that travels through it.

At times a shimmering gray, at times more of a greenish color, the glass facades of high-rise buildings are mostly fairly similar in appearance. They become unique when individual glass elements ...

Flat glass is boring. All the fanciest Android phones have curved glass displays. Not to be left out of the display-warping ways, Apple has patented its own glass-bending process.

He played with a plastic-like sheet between his hands, bending it back and forth. “This is Willow Glass,” he said, forming a bell curve with the sheet. “It’s 0.1-millimeter-thin glass.” ...

U.S. patent 8,336,334 details a method of using heat while bending glass over a mold in order to encourage a particular shape -- and so who's to say that Apple's iPhone and iPad might not one day ...

Looks like it's time for a different kind of arms race. According to CNET, Apple has been rewarded the patent that details a method of using heat while ...

When you bend anything, you stretch the bonds between atoms and force the little fellas to move about against their will. This image shows exactly that happening, inside a sheet of glass. Just ...