{"id":200626,"date":"2024-12-02T13:23:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cooperative-motion-by-atoms-protects-glass-from-fracturing"},"modified":"2024-12-02T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T19:23:13","slug":"cooperative-motion-by-atoms-protects-glass-from-fracturing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/cooperative-motion-by-atoms-protects-glass-from-fracturing","title":{"rendered":"Cooperative motion by atoms protects glass from fracturing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cooperative-motion-by-atoms-protects-glass-from-fracturing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all experienced the moment of panic when a glass slips from our hands, shattering into pieces upon hitting the ground. What if this common mishap could become a thing of the past?<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new discovery by researchers at Tohoku University has offered insights into how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/glass\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">glass<\/a> resists breakage, potentially paving the way for highly durable, break-resistant materials. The breakthrough has wide ranging implications for glass-related industries.<\/p>\n<p>Details of their findings are <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S1359645424008851\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Acta Materialia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve all experienced the moment of panic when a glass slips from our hands, shattering into pieces upon hitting the ground. What if this common mishap could become a thing of the past? Now, a new discovery by researchers at Tohoku University has offered insights into how glass resists breakage, potentially paving the way for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}