Corning Incorporated

Erick Franklin VanDuyne

Qiang Fu

Aniello Mario Palumbo

Michael S Pambianchi

Petr Gorelchenko

Kirk Wegner Christiansen

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Antipin

Glass-ceramic containers and methods of making glass ceramic containers with high transparency and fracture toughness suitable for use as, for example a beverage or food container, such as for example, a baby bottle or personal hydration bottle. The glass ceramic containers may have an average wall thickness in the range of 1 mm to 2.5 mm and a fracture toughness of 1 MPa*m{circumflex over ( )}½ or more.

High strength transparent glass-ceramic containers

Locally cerammed optically transparent glass-ceramic articles for consumer products. The locally cerammed glass-ceramic articles may have one or more primary glass-ceramic regions including primary crystal phases of a glass-ceramic material and one or more secondary glass-ceramic regions including secondary crystal phases of the glass-ceramic material. The primary glass-ceramic region(s) may be optically transparent and the secondary glass-ceramic region(s) may be non-optically transparent. The primary glass-ceramic region(s) may have a fracture toughness less than the fracture toughness of the secondary glass-ceramic region(s).

Locally strengthened glass-ceramics and methods of making the same

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Corning, NY, United States of America

Erick Franklin VanDuyne