Glass and glass ceramics
3 points * 13 lectures * Clayton
Glasses: glass formation, glass structure, glass melting process, different glass systems, properties of glasses, special applications for glasses and recent development of glass science and technology. Glass-ceramics: Nucleation and crystallisation, nucleation agents, phase separation, glass-ceramic process, properties of glass-ceramics and applications of glass-ceramics.
Recommended texts
McMillan P W Glass ceramics Academic Press, 1979
Scholze H Glass Springer-Verlag, 1991