It looks like a tube made of glass but it’s actually aluminum. Well, aluminum with an asterisk beside it — this is not elemental aluminum but rather a material made using it. We got onto the buzz ...

Transparent aluminum oxide (TAlOx), a real material despite its sci-fi name, is incredibly hard and resistant to scratches, making it perfect for protective coatings on electronics, optical sensors, ...

Once confined to the world of Star Trek, transparent aluminum is now very much a reality, and can have significant real-world applications. Transparent aluminum, also known as aluminum oxynitride, is ...