Editorial: Innovators in ceramics and glass

Editorial: Nucleation and Crystallization of Glasses and Glass-Ceramics

Ion-Exchange in Glass-Ceramics

In the past few years, ion-exchange (IOX) in glasses has found a renewed interest with a lot of new development and research in industrial and academic labs and the commercialization of materials with outstanding mechanical properties. These glasses are now widely used in many electronic devices, including hand-held displays and tablets. The exchange is generally conducted in a bath of molten s...

Iron Phosphate Glass-ceramics

The crystallization of 40Fe2O3-60P2O5, 10ZnO-30Fe2O3-60P2O5 and (43.3−x)PbO–(13.7+x)Fe2O3–43P2O5, (0 < x < 30), glasses and glassceramic have been investigated. The structural evolution of glasses during heat treatment at various temperatures and the tendency for crystallization for series of glasses with modified composition are characterized by a dendrite-like phase separation in the early st...

Processing and Characterization of Nanocrystalline Mica Glass-Ceramics

In order to fabrication of transparent glass-ceramics with Li-mica nano crystals, the glasses with chemical composition of 94.9 mass% Li(1+x)Mg3AlSi3(1+x)F2 (x=0.5) with 5.1 mass% MgF2 were crystallized. The glasses were fabricated via the conventional melt-quenching technique. Mica crystals were precipitated in the glass phase by later heat treatment. Glass samples had glass transition tempera...

Crystallisation of Foturan® glass–ceramics

hotostructurable glass–ceramics are suitable for 3-dimensional microfabrication and, in some instances, can be used as an alternative material o silicon in the microfabrication of micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) devices. Foturan® is a photosensitive lithium–aluminium–silicate lass that can be structured by an exposure to UV light, followed by a thermal treatment and an etching step. In t...