The Fall 2024 MatSE 590 for graduate students consists of an exciting and jam-packed schedule. MATSE 590 is a colloquium (1-3 credits) consist of a series of individual lectures by faculty, students, or outside speakers.
Graduate students will receive a weekly email with information via @psu.edu email. Graduate students are required to attend all 590 Seminars. If you have any questions, please email GradOffice@matse.psu.edu.
October 17 -“Glass for a Sustainable Future”
John Mauro, Dorothy Pate Enright Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Associate Head for Graduate Education and Chair of the Intercollege Graduate Degree Program in Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State
Abstract
Glass has proven to be a critically important material for the development of contemporary human civilization. Its influence continues to grow as new glass products and processes are developed to address global challenges in energy, the environment, healthcare, information technology, and more. Despite recent advances in glass science and technology, major challenges remain with respect to the sustainability of the glass industry, which generates more than 86 million tons of carbon dioxide annually. In this presentation, I will describe my own personal journey in glass from Corning, New York to Happy Valley, Pennsylvania. After reviewing some recent advances in glass physics and chemistry, we’ll peer into our glass (not “crystal”) ball to discuss future glass technologies for a more sustainable future. The latter part of the presentation will introduce LionGlass, Penn State’s patent-pending glass compositional family that offers, for the first time, an alternative to standard soda lime silicate glass for reducing the carbon footprint of the glass industry by ~50%. LionGlass achieves this goal by lowering the melting temperature of everyday glass products by 400°C and eliminating the use of carbonate batch materials. LionGlass also offers 10× improvement in damage resistance compared to soda lime silicate, enabling the lightweighting of everyday glass products.
Biographical Information
Dr. Mauro earned his B.S. in Glass Engineering Science (2001), B.A. in Computer Science (2001), and Ph.D. in Glass Science (2006), all from Alfred University. He joined Corning Inc. in 1999, where he served in various capacities, including senior research manager of the Glass Research department. Dr. Mauro is the inventor or co-inventor of several new glass compositions for Corning, including Corning Gorilla® Glass products. He is a pioneer in the use of physics-based modeling for the design of new glassy materials and is the inventor of new models for supercooled liquid and glass viscosity, glass structure and topology, relaxation behavior, and thermal and mechanical properties. In 2017, Dr. Mauro joined The Pennsylvania State University as professor of Materials Science and Engineering.
Dr. Mauro is currently a world-recognized expert in fundamental and applied glass science, statistical mechanics, computational and condensed matter physics, thermodynamics, and the topology of disordered networks. He is the author of over 340 peer-reviewed publications and has given over 300 presentations at international conferences and seminars. His publications have been cited over 17,000 times, with an h-index of 57. Dr. Mauro has 72 granted U.S. patents and has many more additional patents pending. He is the co-author of Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses, 3rd ed. (Elsevier, 2019), the definitive textbook in glass science and engineering. Dr. Mauro is the author of Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena (Elsevier, 2021), the most comprehensive textbook in the field of materials kinetics.
Dr. Mauro is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of the American Ceramic Society.