Once confined to the world of Star Trek, transparent aluminum is now very much a reality, and can have significant real-world applications. Transparent aluminum, also known as aluminum oxynitride, is ...

Transparent aluminum was featured in a throwaway scene in a Star Trek movie, ... Called aluminium oxynitride, it has a similar crystal structure to that of the magnesium aluminate.

Transparent Aluminum beams over from 'Star Trek' to real life (video) Published: Sep. 09, 2016, 1:48 p.m. 'Star Trek' transparent aluminum now a reality. By . N. Scott Trimble | [email protected] ...

The material, aluminium oxynitride, known as AION, is four times harder than fused silica glass, ... This grainy structure is then fused by heating at 2,000C for several days.

Oct. 25, 2005 — -- Banks and late-night convenience stores everywhere routinely feature imposing slabs of bullet-proof glass. Researchers are now hoping to put those thick, bulky panels on a ...

Aluminium oxynitride is a ceramic consisting of aluminium, oxygen and nitrogen that’s created in a rather elaborate process with high pressures. In the paper, however, ...

Specialists from the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI and multi-institutional collaborators have developed a technology to produce compacts from aluminum oxynitride (ALON). They've ...

Traditional transparent armor costs less than $4 per square inch. The aluminum oxynitride is now at least $10 per square inch. That price would come down with mass production.