silica glass

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The system uses silica glass, a common material that is resistant to changes in temperature, moisture and electromagnetic interference.

From Barron's

To develop their defect-free fibres, the NTU-led team selected pairs of common semiconductor material and synthetic material -- a silicon semiconductor core with a silica glass tube and a germanium core with an aluminosilicate glass tube.

From Science Daily

The scientists used a very thin layer of silica glass, only about 5 nm or few hundred atoms thick, to coat the DNA frames, leaving inner spaces open and ensuring that the resulting material is ultra-light.

From Science Daily

Limin Tong, a physicist at Zhejiang University in China, and his colleagues said they were inspired to study ice after working with a type of silica glass.

From New York Times

“What you get in the end is high purity silica glass” in any shape you want, Kotz says.

From Science Magazine