"Chemically strengthened glass: Science, technology and its future", seminar at the University of Connecticut School of Engineering, Mansfield, CT, April 5, 2019.

• His presentation was entitled, "Chemically Strengthened Glass: Science, Technology and Its Future". Dr. Varshneya gave a comprehensive update on the science and technology of chemically strengthened glass particularly elaborating the potential applications.
• PDF Abstract of the presentation
• PDF of the 2018 Morey Lecture

The following was the citation:

• "Your educational work at Alfred including your championing of the teaching of business skills to technologists, your industrial experience with Ford, GE and latterly, your own company Saxon Glass Technologies and your authorship of research papers and books together with many personal attributes too numerous to mention, all contributed to the view that you should be an Honorary Fellow of the Society."
• There are only 12 total individuals with this distinction worldwide.

Volume 96 Issue 3 | pp. 16-17

• Issue Date: January 15, 2018
• Article title: "Chemically strengthened glass finds a new application"
• The science of chemical strengthening is relatively simple,” says Arun K. Varshneya, president of Saxon Glass Technologies. Immersing glass in a molten salt bath, typically potassium nitrate at around 450 °C, causes potassium ions to replace some of the sodium ions in a (few) micrometer-thick layer on the glass surface. The difference in ion size (K+’s radius is roughly 0.38 Å larger than that of Na+) leads to compressive forces that toughen the surface by blocking the routes along which cracks could otherwise propagate.
• In principle, the ion-exchange process works with any glass that contains sodium, and most glass does. Soda-lime glass, for example, which is made from silica, sodium carbonate (soda ash), and calcium carbonate (limestone), accounts for 90% of all manufactured glass.
• In the 1990s, Saxon Glass customized the process to strengthen 1-mm-thick sodium borosilicate glass cartridges used in EpiPen injectors. The devices deliver epinephrine to treat life-threatening anaphylactic shock caused by severe allergic reactions. Varshneya notes that before the strengthened cartridges were developed, as many as one in 10 broke during injection. The failure rate for the strengthened glass version is less than one in a million, he says, adding that last year the company sold 30 million such cartridges.

Volume 95 Issue 47 | pp. 28-29 | What's That Stuff?

• Issue Date: November 27, 2017 | Web Date: November 22, 2017.
• Article title: "What's glass, and how are modern-day researchers enhancing its properties?"
• Why glass is still capturing the minds of scientists and innovators depends on whom you ask. Arun K. Varshneya, president of Saxon Glass Technologies, which specializes in strengthening glass for the pharmaceutical and other industries, ticks off a long list of properties that make the stuff so useful. Beyond being transparent, it also stands up to wind, rain, snow, intense sunlight, and large swings in temperature, he says. It’s also chemically resistant and recyclable, and many varieties of glass are relatively inexpensive.

"Principles of glass chemical strengthening science and technology", Invited graduate seminar at Rutgers, The State University, Piscataway NJ. April 25, 2017.

"Strengthened glass vs. sapphire as cover screens for personal electronic communication devices", with Peter P. Bihuniak. Invited lecture at the ICAGST-ICG, Kolkata January 24, 2017. Also invited at the Materials Science & Technology 2016, Salt Lake City UT, October 27, 2016.

"Recent advances in the chemical strengthening of glass", keynote lecture at the joint meeting of the International Conference on Advances in Glass Science & Technology (ICAGST) and the International Commission on Glass (ICG), Kolkata (India), January 23, 2017.

"Recent advances in the chemical strengthening of glass", Invited at the Turner Legacy Symposium, Society of Glass Technology Centennial meeting, Sheffield (UK), September 06, 2016

Teamed up with Professor Edgar D. Zanotto of the Federal University of Sao Carlos, Brazil to deliver a 6-hour short course on "Sheffield alumni teachings on glass science and technology", September 04, 2016. Twenty-six students from all parts of the world attended.

Dr. Varshneya receives the 2015 Arthur L. Friedberg Memorial Lecture award; delivers a presentation entitled, "Principles of Glass Chemical Strengthening Science & Technology", MS&T'15, Columbus OH, October 05, 2015.

• "Mechanical Models for Viscoelastic Relaxation During Ion Exchange in Glass", (Invited). Arun K. Varshneya, Patrick K. Kreski, & Prabhat K. Gupta. Paper number GOMD-S3-065-2015. Annual meeting of the Glass & Optical Materials Division meeting of the American Ceramic Society, May 19, 2015, Miami FL.
• "Warp reduction during chemical strengthening of float-produced thin flat soda-lime silicate glasses: I, Thermal treatment", Arun K. Varshneya, Patrick K. Kreski, & Garrett A. Olson, Paper number GOMD-S3-066-2015. Annual meeting of the Glass & Optical Materials Division meeting of the American Ceramic Society, May 19, 2015, Miami FL.
• "Warp reduction during chemical strengthening of float-produced thin flat soda-lime silicate glasses: II, Differential methods", Arun K. Varshneya, Patrick K. Kreski, & T. Andrew Goldberg, Paper number GOMD-S3-067 2015. Annual meeting of the Glass & Optical Materials Division meeting of the American Ceramic Society, May 19, 2015, Miami FL.
• "Dilation Anomaly in Ion-Exchange Strengthening", Prabhat Gupta, Patrick Kreski, & Arun Varshneya, Paper number GOMD-S3-064-2015. Annual meeting of the Glass & Optical Materials Division meeting of the American Ceramic Society, May 19, 2015, Miami FL.

Dr. Varshneya receives the Toledo Glass & Ceramics Award; delivers lecture entitled, "Strengthened Glasses", Toledo OH, April 09, 2015.

"High Temperature Relaxation of Alkali Stuffed Silicate Glasses by Molecular Dynamics Simulations", Patrick Kreski, Arun K. Varshneya and Alastair N. Cormack. 1st Joint meeting of the Deutsche Glastechnische Geselschaft and the Glass & Optical Materials Division, Aachen May 27, 2014.

"Chemical Durability of Glass", (Invited). Lecture to the Polish Ceramic Society, Krakow (Poland) May 19, 2014.

"Essential Structural Features of 'Stuffing' Alkali Accommodation in Ion-Exchanged Silicate Glasses from Molecular Dynamics Simulations", Kreski P.K, Varshneya A. K., Cormack A.N, (XXIII International Congress on Glass. Prague (Czechia) July 2013.