Monday, September 8, 2008

Glass made in space, wow!!!- Delbert E. Day

Picture of glass microspheres next to a human hair.

Dr. Delbert Day, Curators' Professor emeritus of ceramic engineering at UMR whose work with glass has resulted in a variety of inventions-- from "glasphalt" for roads to an innovative approach to figh liver cancer using microscopic, irradiated glass beads. 

Glass in Space
Day's initial experiments where glass was melted in a microgravity chamber and was held in place by sound waves therefore not needing a container to melt glass in, "we could melt and cool and melt and cool a molten droplet without letting it touch anything." This produced better glass even higher quality then he had hoped.

Glass Microspheres treating liver cancer
Delbert day is also know as one of the co-inventors for radioactive glass microspheres that help to treat liver cancer. To read more click here.

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