Glass Structure

This chapter shows the prominent characteristics of glass disordered structure. The chapter explains silica and related glasses because of their practical importance and the well‐documented literature. Borosilicate glasses play an important role in glass manufacturing since they are corrosion resist...

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Published inGlass pp. 55 - 84
Main Author Le Bourhis , Eric
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Germany Wiley 2014
Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA
Subjects
borate glass
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs)
chalcogenide glasses
glass structure
organic glasses
silica glass
vitroceramic fabrication
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Summary:This chapter shows the prominent characteristics of glass disordered structure. The chapter explains silica and related glasses because of their practical importance and the well‐documented literature. Borosilicate glasses play an important role in glass manufacturing since they are corrosion resistant and with low thermal expansion. Organic glasses are used to produce optical lenses and to protect glass articles. Chalcogenide glasses can be described in analogy to organic glasses, the term polymerization being often employed in the glass context as well. Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) were found to have a new type of glassy structure with a high degree of dense randomly packed atomic configurations with much smaller excess volume and higher packing density than oxide glasses. Vitroceramics are fabricated introducing metallic impurities in the glass melt to induce heteronucleation as detailed in the chapter.
ISBN:3527337059
9783527337057
DOI:10.1002/9783527679461.ch05