The Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center will host another in its Sustainable Materials Management webinar series December 17 on Glass For A Sustainable Future from 1:30 to 2:45 p.m.

Glass has proven to be a critically important material for the development of contemporary human civilization.

Its influence continues to grow as new glass products and processes are developed to address global challenges in energy, the environment, healthcare, information technology, and more.

Despite recent advances in glass science and technology, major challenges remain with respect to the sustainability of the glass industry, which generates more than 86 million tons of carbon dioxide annually.

After discussing the presenter’s own journey in glass from Corning, New York to Penn State University and reviewing some recent advances in glass physics and chemistry, we’ll peer into our glass (not “crystal”) ball to discuss future glass technologies for a more sustainable future.

The latter part of the presentation will introduce LionGlass, Penn State’s patent-pending glass compositional family that offers an alternative to standard soda lime silicate glass for reducing the carbon footprint of the glass industry by ~50%.

LionGlass achieves this goal by lowering the melting temperature of everyday glass products by 400°C and eliminating the use of carbonate batch materials.

LionGlass also offers 10× improvement in damage resistance compared to soda lime silicate, enabling the lightweighting of everyday glass products.

The featured presenter is Dr. John C. Mauro is Dorothy Pate Enright Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University.

John earned a B.S. in Glass Engineering Science (2001), B.A. in Computer Science (2001), and Ph.D. in Glass Science (2006), all from Alfred University.

He joined Corning Incorporated in 1999 and served in multiple roles there, including Senior Research Manager of the Glass Research department.

John is the inventor or co-inventor of several new glass compositions for Corning, including Corning Gorilla® Glass products.

John joined the faculty at Penn State in 2017 and is currently a world-recognized expert in fundamental and applied glass science, statistical mechanics, computational and condensed matter physics, thermodynamics and kinetics, and the topology of disordered networks.

John is the author of over 380 peer-reviewed publications and is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.

He is co-author of Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses, 3rd ed. (Elsevier, 2019), the definitive textbook on glass science and technology, and author of the newly published textbook, Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena (Elsevier, 2021).

John is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors with 83 granted U.S. patents. John is also a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the Society of Glass Technology.

He is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and the World Academy of Ceramics.

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