FOX News: World's thinnest glass shatters records -- by accident

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World's thinnest glass shatters records -- by accident Sep 13th 2013, 18:01 It's an earth-shattering record. At just one molecule thick, researchers at Cornell and Germany's University of Ulm discovered the world's thinnest sheet of glass -- by accident. The unexpected discovery came after scientists notices "muck" on the graphene, a two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms shaped in a chicken wire crystal formation, they had been studying. It turns out, the smudge they thought they saw was actually a "pane" of glass so thin that its individual silicon and oxygen atoms are visible via an electron microscopy. "It's the first time that anyone has been able to see the arrangement of atoms in a glass," director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science David A. Muller told the Cornell Chronicle. "This is the work that, when I look back at my career, I will be most proud of." Besides making it into the Guinness Book of World Records, the discovery may lead to the creation of ultra-thin material that could improve the performance of processors in computers and smartphones. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation through the Cornell Center for Materials Research.

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