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Re:Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature by blix on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:37PM (#23567728)
If they can reliably get those densities and shrinkages from this procedure that is quite impressive. After a brief look through the papers, there is some promising evidence but I'd like to see a more thorough characterization, especially demonstrating spatial homogeneity of porosity and shrinkage.

It's certainly a very interesting technology, and I think it could potentially be applicable to materials beyond glass.

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Re:Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature by jlokier on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:04PM (#23568031)
> I think it could potentially be applicable to materials beyond glass.

It's been used for quite a few years already. Precious metal clay is basically this. You can 3d print with it, then fire it and it turns into solid metal.

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Re:Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature by blix on Thursday June 18, 2020 @05:21PM (#23568175)
What's most interesting to me is subtractive manufacturing of ceramics.

From what I've seen in metals, there's a preference for powder bed technologies over binder technologies. But it's not like I have a wide scope of current industry or research.

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