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Dental Implants Made from New Super Strong Metallic Glass

Posted by Z Dental Group - January 29th, 2011

A glass that has the strength and toughness of steel has been developed by Caltech and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs.

The new glass is made up of palladium and silver with small fractions of metalloids. Marios Demetriou, a senior research fellow at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) lead a team of researchers that included William Johnson, Caltech’s Ruben F. and Donna Mettler Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and colleagues in developing this material.

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