Glass Ceramics (aka Vitro Ceramics)
How does a material translate into a consumer experience? Or how can a material’s functionality be exploited to create an emotional response? The case of glass ceramics provides the answers. The early-to-mid part of the twentieth century marked a new age in materials. Not just because it witnessed the introduction of so many new types of materials – Nylon, Teflon®, Pyrex® – but also because it marked the point at which stories of the future were based on the promise of these new materials.
One of the success stories from this period was glass ceramic, a ‘super material’ that combined the properties of glass and ceramic, notably to produce a resistance to thermal shock. In addition to this property, and in comparison ...
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