Stronger-than-steel palladium glass paves way for dental implants of the future

Written by The Houston Implant Dentist Wednesday, 12 January 2011 18:25

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A team of researchers at Caltech and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have created a new type of glass that's stronger than steel, but it might not make it out of your oral surgeon's office. The material is a combination of glass' simplest form, called marginal glass, the metal palladium , and small fractions of phosphorus, silicon, germanium, and silver, making it resistant to massive ...