Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • News & Views
  • Published:

Oxide glasses

Toughening through faint crystallization

Nature Materials volume 22, pages 1169–1170 (2023)Cite this article

Subjects

Oxide glasses can be intrinsically toughened by forming crystal-like, medium-range order clusters, which transform inversely to the amorphous state under stress, exciting multiple shear bands for plastic deformation.

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Buy this article

  • Purchase on Springer Link
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

Fig. 1: Structure and property analysis of paracrystalline oxide glasses.

References

  1. Ritchie, R. O. Nat. Mater. 10, 817–822 (2011).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Tang, H. et al. Nat. Mater. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01625-x (2023).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Homeny, J., Nelson, G. G., Paulik, S. W. & Risbud, S. H. J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 70, C-114–C-116 (1987).

  4. Rouxel, T. Scripta Mater. 137, 109–113 (2017).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  5. Guo, Y., Li, J., Zhang, Y., Feng, S. & Sun, H. iScience 24, 102735 (2021).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  6. Serbena, F. C., Mathias, I., Foerster, C. E. & Zanotto, E. D. Acta Mater. 86, 216–228 (2015).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  7. Demetriou, M. D. et al. Nat. Mater. 10, 123–128 (2011).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  8. Tang, H. et al. Nature 599, 605–610 (2021).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  9. Yin, Z., Hannard, F. & Barthelat, F. Science 364, 1260–1263 (2019).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Amini, A., Khavari, A., Barthelat, F. & Ehrlicher, A. J. Science 373, 1229–1234 (2021).

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. School of Chemistry, Beihang University, Beijing, China

    Hewei Zhao & Lin Guo

Authors
  1. Hewei Zhao
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Lin Guo
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Lin Guo.

Ethics declarations

Competing interests

The authors declare no competing interests.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this article

Zhao, H., Guo, L. Toughening through faint crystallization. Nat. Mater. 22, 1169–1170 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01655-5

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-023-01655-5

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing