Glass Recycling, Cullet, Abrasives and Powdered Glass

Strategic Materials, Inc. - Glass Recycling, Cullet, Abrasives and Powdered Glass

Provides glass cullett - ground up recycled glass

Paisano Glass Compactors

Paisano Glass Compactors

We are providing samples of raw and processed cullet to local artisans and crafts people for experimental purposes.

The home made glass compactor is a little primative, but the idea of locally compacting glass and reusing it with minimal energy has potential. This website lists some potential uses:

http://www.glassagg.com/recycled_glass.html

Fog-Free Glass -- Materials Scientists Create Polymer Coating Against Fogged Glass

Instead of having to add a coating to glass to make it fog-free, processing it in a way that creates small holes in the surface can make it fog-free without the addition of material.

MIT's new coating is "superhydrophilic": it really loves water. It's made of a three-dimensional matrix of water-loving polymer chains mixed in with glass nanoparticles and tiny air bubbles. The edges of the tiny glass particles come in contact with many droplets of water and the water droplets flatten and join up to form sheets. The glass nanoparticles and air bubbles also can act like the holes in a sponge, sucking the droplets downward to wick away water.

Fog-Free Glass -- Materials Scientists Create Polymer Coating Against Fogged Glass

Biomimicry - Unbreakable Glass -- Chemists Steal Engineering Tricks from Sponges

By studying the glass sponge, scientists could learn how to create a strong material out of something that seems to be frail. It may also hold the secret to making glass at room temperature, instead of the extremely high temperatures required to do so today. Researchers believe that the individual glass fibers in the sponge are formed by a protein at the center of each glass filament.

Unbreakable Glass -- Chemists Steal Engineering Tricks from Sponges