Advancing glasses through fundamental research

Effect of uniaxial load on the sintering behaviour of 45S5 Bioglass® powder compacts

“…Typically, significantly higher stress levels would be required to affect phase stability in glass. [22][23][24] Double peaks present at 2θ ∼ 34 • and 26 • in the standard diagram merged into one single peak in the investigated specimens. This may be related either to the small size of the crystallites leading to a broadening of diffraction peaks or to the distortion of the lattice cell.…”

Grand Challenges in Glass Science

“…Another intriguing possibility is the formation of glass under high pressure (Wondraczek and Mauro, 2009;Youngman, 2014). This occurs in volcanic and magmatic systems; however, current glass production is normally performed at ambient pressure.…”

“…The pace of innovation in glass science has increased enormously in recent decades (Mauro and Zanotto, 2014) due to the advances in our fundamental knowledge of glass physics and chemistry (Wondraczek and Mauro, 2009)…”

High index-contrast all-solid photonic crystal fibers by pressure-assisted melt infiltration of silica matrices

“…Compared to organic fluids (and particularly polymer melts), for reasons of experimental limitations, these phenomena are typically difficult to assess. Hence, relevant knowledge is still very limited [15], although it may have direct consequences for not only PCF fabrication but various other applications such as micromechanical forming processes [16] or the design of anisotropic glasses [17].…”