Transparent Aluminium

Hello computer!?

We’re gonna get transparent metal before the easy parts like to stop killing each other. Roll on Star Trek

Misleading name, on the same level as calling water "non-explosive hydrogen". That said the material looks promising, as a glass replacement for some applications (the text mentions a few of them, like armoured windows).

(It is not a metal; it's a ceramic, mostly oxygen with bits and bobs of aluminium and nitrogen. Interesting nonetheless, even if I'm picking on the name.)

Can I make a whale tank out of it?

3 times as tough as steel and they're making bulletproof glass out of it...

There's a low budget pc game about colonizing Mars and this was one of the things in the tech tree

Crazy to see it as a real thing now.

Like OG aluminum, this is going to be crazy expensive at first, but in a century it'll likely be cheap and we'll see it replacing glass in the most mundane uses.

We'll see it replace phone screens pretty quickly tho. A few mm's of this and we'll have legitimately unbreakable screens, and even if a scratch happens, you should be able to just buff it out. They're probably wrap entire phones it honestly. One solid piece that makes repair impossible on your own.

The obtained material, which is molded and opaque, is heated to 2000 C and kept at this temperature for two days

Fuck that's a long time and a high temp

Transparent aluminum is so weird, a piece of it was once passed around our office. It felt heavier and colder than I expected, which I guess is probably because it's much denser than most types of glass (I think it's only comparable to optical glass so it would be close to holding a high quality glass lens) and it looks like the thermal conductivity is way higher.

I had no idea this actually existed! Cool!

Here’s a more novice-friendly link: https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/whats-the-deal-with-transparent-aluminum/

Star trek comes to life, yet again.

Looks like a cool new project for NileRed

FWIW, this has been around for about twenty years.

This seems cool.

Also upvoted for the correct spelling of Aluminium

Scotty would be proud.

Would that make it a type of sapphire?

Aluminum oxynitride is transparent aluminum, but alpha aluminum oxide, which is also transparent, is called Corundum, Ruby, or Sapphire. That name is dumb.

How much would a transparent aluminum butt plug cost and would it be safe to use?

Transparisteel is real? Neat!

Is this bullshit? Is it April first or something? I actually checked, no kidding!

Scotty is going to be such a badass. I'm glad we have him to look forward to.

It's amazing that LLMs have studied the internet for how humans write articles, and now they type like a fuckin SeO sPeCIaLiST

Now make a plane please

Great, now my food will be wrapped in transparent aluminum

Used as an insulator? Are you sure?

Did we lose some whales recently?

I wonder if it can transmit laser pulses and electricity at the same time? Could it be used to create data cables that use both to increase bandwidth?

Aluminum oxynitride is transparent aluminum, but alpha aluminum oxide, which is also transparent, is called Ruby or Sapphire. That name is dumb.

Call me when we get transparisteel

Sounds expensive.