Hybrid Crystal-Glass Materials from Meteorites Transform Heat Control (IMAGE)

Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

Hybrid Crystal-Glass Materials from Meteorites Transform Heat Control

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The article discusses how increasing disorder in the atomic structure of materials influences macroscopic heat conduction — a critical property for heat-management technologies. The materials studied include crystalline meteoritic tridymite (left), a tridymite phase featuring crystalline bond order and amorphous bond geometry (center), and completely amorphous silica glass (right). Red represents oxygen (O), blue represents silicon (Si), and common SiO4 tetrahedral arrangements are highlighted in shaded blue.

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Simoncelli Lab

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