Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature

Re:Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature by jszymborski on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:43PM (#23565561)

It'd be interesting if they could create some sort of laminated or reinforced plastic by also printing a PLA scaffold. It'd reduce the amount of plastic but also combat some of the brittleness you get with glass.

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Re:Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature by lucioperca on Thursday June 18, 2020 @03:04PM (#23566478)

Interesting thought but temperatures of 1300 Degree Celcius are reached. Maybe something like high temperature mineral wool would work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineral_wool#Kaowool

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Re:Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature by _Microft on Thursday June 18, 2020 @01:52PM (#23565668)

Only the shaping takes place at low temperatures. The material still needs a heat treatment at well over 1000°C for its final form.

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Re:Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature by abdullahkhalids on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:09PM (#23567400)

> The conversion takes place at 700 °C below the temperature for handling of silica melts (~2000 °C) and thus safes [sic] a considerable amount of energy.

https://www.glassomer.com/index.php/technology

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