The bioactivity of a series of fluoride-containing sodium-free calcium and strontium phosphosilicate glasses has been tested in vitro. Glasses with high fluoride content were partially crystallised to apatite and other fluoride-containing phases. The bioactivity study was carried out in Tris and SBF buffers, and apatite formation was monitored by XRD, FTIR and solid state NMR. Ion release in so...

Using a correlation inequality of Contucci and Lebowitz for spin glasses, we demonstrate existence of the thermodynamic limit for short-ranged spin glasses, under weaker hypotheses than previously available, namely without the assumption of the annealed bound.

The ventral visual cortex has a modular organization in which discrete and well-defined regions show a much stronger response to certain object categories (e.g., faces, bodies) than to other categories. The majority of previous studies have examined the response of these category-selective regions to isolated images of preferred or nonpreferred categories. Thus, little is known about the way th...

The elastic behaviour of binary Gex Se1−x glasses, examined in Raman scattering experiments earlier, has shown glasses at x < 0.20 to be in the flexible phase, those at x > 0.25 to be in the stressed–rigid phase and those in the 0.20 < x < 0.25 range to be in the intermediate phase (IP). The IP width in mean-coordination-number space, r = 0.10. We have now examined ternary Ge1/4Se3/4−yIy glasse...

Penta-glasses with a 59B2O3–29SiO2–2LiF–( $$10-x$$ ) ZnO– $$x$$ TiO2 composition the melt-quench techniques were prepared. X-ray diffraction was used to examine nature of fabricated glasses. The changes in structure glasses studied by Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy spectra. molar volume reduces as density increases. mechanical characteristics these evaluated. Besides, for glasses, Phy-...

X-ray absorption spectroscopic studies of cation environments in oxide glasses are selectively reviewed. New results are presented on K and Yb environments in silicate glasses and on Fe in silicate melts at temperatures up to 1173 " K. INTRODUCTION Recent investigations of oxide glasses and crystalline model compounds by x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS and the acronyms EXAFS for extended fin...

The thermal and dielectric anomalies of window-type glasses at low temperatures (T < 1 K) are rather successfully explained by the two-level systems (2LS) standard tunneling model (STM). However, the magnetic effects discovered in the multisilicate glasses in recent times, magnetic effects in the organic glasses, and also some older data from mixed (SiO₂)(1-x) (K₂O)(x) and (SiO₂)(1-x) (Na₂O)(x)...

A growing body of experimental work indicates that physical vapor deposition provides an effective route for preparation of stable glasses, whose properties correspond in some cases to those expected for glasses that have been aged for thousands of years. In this work, model binary glasses are prepared in a process inspired by physical vapor deposition, in which particles are sequentially added...

Glasses with high elastic moduli have been in demand for many years because the thickness of such glasses can be reduced while maintaining its strength. Moreover, thinner and lighter glasses are desired for the fabrication of windows in buildings and cars, cover glasses for smart-phones and substrates in Thin-Film Transistor (TFT) displays. In this work, we report a 54Al2O3-46Ta2O5 glass fabric...

In an attempt to combat the possibility of bacterial infection and insufficient bone growth around metallic, surgical implants, bioactive glasses may be employed as coatings. In this work, silica-based and borate-based glass series were synthesized for this purpose and subsequently characterized in terms of antibacterial behavior, solubility and cytotoxicity. Borate-based glasses were found to ...