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New Journal of Glass and Ceramics (NJGC) is an international, specialized, English-language journal devoted to publication of original contributions concerning all branches of glass and ceramics, their properties and applications. It is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal describing scientific and technological adva…
Anant Vidya Nidhi, Vivek Modgil, V. S. Rangra
The quaternary chalcogenide glass Te 9 Se 72 Ge 19-x Sb x (x = 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) has been prepared by the melt quench techni que. The material fragility increases due to decrease in degree of cross linking in glass matrix as the Sb content increases. The heat…
Mehrnoush Mokhtarimehr, Akbar Eshaghi, Mahmoud Pakshir
In this study, vanadium doped TiO 2 thin films were deposited on glass substrates using a sol-gel dip-coating process. X-Ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and UV-Vis spectrophotometer were used to characterize the structura…
Xingzhong Guo, Hui Yang, Wenyan Li, Lingjie Zhang, Jiajie Zhao, Wenda Zhao
The effects of Co 2 O 3 on the crystallization and colorization of lithium aluminosilicate glass ceramic w ere investigated by using differential thermal analysis (DTA), X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The results show ed th…
Odile Cristini-Robbe, Florian Ruyffelaere, Florent Dubart, Ange Uwimanimpaye, Christophe Kinowski, Remy Bernard, Catherine Robbe-Masselot, Ikram El Yazidi, Sylvia Turrell
Porous silica xerogel materials have been developed to use as drug-release agents to be implanted directly in or near cancerous tissues. In order to test the capacity of the materials to absorb and then to release medicinal substances, a battery of examinatio…
Larry L. Hench
The key research and development steps for bioactive glass (45S5 Bioglass) are documented from the date of discovery in 1969 through FDA approvals of the first dental, ENT, maxillo-facial and orthopedic clinical products. Understanding the mechanisms and quan…
Chaouki Sadik, Iz-Edinne El Amrani, Abderahman Albizane
Five mixtures (M1 to M5) of silica-alumina geomaterials and two varieties of alumina (A P and A R ) were used for the elaboration of mullite refractory materials between 1500 ℃ and 1600 ℃ . An X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis showed that the refractory sample…
Cristina Volzone, Franco Matías Stábile
P 2 O 5 - Na 2 O-CaO-SiO 2 compounds are the base of certain glass types. Glasses are solids obtained by fast cooling of melted mix of certain compounds. Different compositions give origin to many products with a variety of applications such as: bottles, coat…
Takuya Honma, Nobuhiro Tamura, Kazuya Saito, Edson Sekiya
The fictive temperature and structural relaxation of a silica glass arc tube were investigated to elucidate the origin of cracking in the arc tubes used in high-intensity discharge lamps for vacuum ultraviolet light sources. The structural relaxation time nea…
Xiuwen Wu, Hongwen Ma, Xiaochao Chen, Zhanbing Li, Jie Li
Porous SiC ceramic were prepared with silicon carbide powder as the aggregate, silicone resin as the binder and pore agent by the process of mixing, iso-static pressure molding, and calcination. The mechanical properties and microstructures of the samples wer…
Dominique Lochegnies, Philippe Moreau, Fabienne Hanriot, Patrick Hugonneaux
Worldwide, ESSILOR International provides customers with Progressive Addition Lenses (PAL), which replace bifocal lenses. Thermal replication is one process to produce glass moulds for PAL, using sagged glass on a ceramic slumping block. In this paper, therma…
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