I noticed this development in Battery technology... Glass that melts at 400 °C ....

3D Printing
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I noticed this development in Battery technology… Glass that melts at 400 °C … It occurred to me that this temperature may be achievable with a FFF 3D Printer…

Will the printing of glass objects be possible?

“We’re developing a glass that you can pump like a liquid,” says Halotechnics CEO Justin Raade. “It has a viscosity orders of magnitude below traditional window glass, and at 400 °C is about the viscosity of honey.”
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129595.600-batteries-of-ice-iron-and-glass-store-renewable-power.html

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I think you’re going to have to start looking at materials and things that can sustain that around the entire object. Glass has a tendency to shatter, instead of warp. I think it could be done, but would take a huge barrel of money pumped into it.

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A glass that melts at 400C could possibly behave more like a plastic than window glass, as polymers and glasses are physically somewhat related and the borderline between them is quite blurry.
Still, we’ll have to wait on their final product to see how it behaves.

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Consider that @Sanjay_Mortimer showed an E3D at 410 C around Xmas time … it is only time that separates these two !

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@William_Frick I like the idea, but practically how would you spool it etc?!

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how would you spool it etc?!<<< Fibre Glass is quite flexable

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@Sanjay_Mortimer Maybe something like 'Stick Filament" although current extruder drives would shatter it.