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Canadian university invents a glass that bends but doesn't break

New Delhi: The Department of Mechanical Engineering of  McGill University  in Canada has invented a new technique  to significantly increase the toughness of glass so that when it falls from a table on the floor

India TV News Desk Updated on: February 01, 2014 7:08 IST


Barthelat and his team studied the internal ‘weak' boundaries or edges to be found in natural materials like nacre and then use lasers to engrave networks of 3D micro-cracks in glass slides in order to create similar weak boundaries.

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