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Glass nanostructures reflect nearly all visible light, challenging assumptions

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-glass-nanostructures-visible-photonics-assumptions.html

26•bookofjoe•3d ago

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passwordoops•3h ago

Interesting. This phys.org article is authored "by Singapore University of Technology and Design"

So they take paid PR directly now? I guess it's better economics than paying a person to rewrite a low-quality summary and not as bad as an AI summarizing the original PR...

s0rce•3h ago

This is pretty common for websites to just re-post the university press releases. When my papers got media coverage this was widespread, only a few places would write their own copy.

dekhn•2h ago

Yes, that's exactly right. this is NewsWire for science.

xeonmc•3h ago

This is just photonic crystals, literally the entire point of photonic crystals is to create as many interfaces as possible to give light a second/third/fourth/… chance of getting reflected. Basically why your sunglasses are shiny.

The main news is using a precursor chemical and photolithography to cure hollow glass trusses, so that the interface is glass-against-vacuum instead of glass-against-less-contrasting-material.

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Glass nanostructures reflect nearly all visible light, challenging assumptions

https://phys.org/news/2025-06-glass-nanostructures-visible-photonics-assumptions.html

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