[HN Gopher] Glass nanostructures reflect nearly all visible ligh...
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       Glass nanostructures reflect nearly all visible light, challenging
       assumptions
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2025-06-24 12:23 UTC (3 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (phys.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
        
       | passwordoops wrote:
       | Interesting. This phys.org article is authored "by Singapore
       | University of Technology and Design"
       | 
       | So they take paid PR directly now? I guess it's better economics
       | than paying a person to rewrite a low-quality summary and not as
       | bad as an AI summarizing the original PR...
        
         | s0rce wrote:
         | This is pretty common for websites to just re-post the
         | university press releases. When my papers got media coverage
         | this was widespread, only a few places would write their own
         | copy.
        
       | xeonmc wrote:
       | This is just photonic crystals, literally the entire point of
       | photonic crystals is to create as many interfaces as possible to
       | give light a second/third/fourth/... chance of getting reflected.
       | Basically why your sunglasses are shiny.
       | 
       | The main news is using a precursor chemical and photolithography
       | to cure hollow glass trusses, so that the interface is glass-
       | against-vacuum instead of glass-against-less-contrasting-
       | material.
        
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