TY - BOOK ID - 134180618 TI - Nucleation and Crystallization of Glasses and Glass-Ceramics AU - Joachim Deubener AU - Wolfram Holand PY - 2017 PB - Frontiers Media SA DB - UniCat KW - Crystal growth KW - Nucleation agents KW - non-linear optic crystals KW - sintering KW - ion exchange KW - Apatite KW - crystal pattering KW - ceramming KW - glass-ceramic technology KW - heterogeneous and homogeneous nucleation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134180618 AB - The E-book "Nucleation and Crystallization of Glasses and Glass-Ceramics" highlights historic perspectives and current research in the field of glass-ceramic technology. Glass-ceramic technology is promising to provide us with materials of high strength, high toughness, unique electrical/electronic or magnetic properties, exceptional optical or unusual thermal or chemical properties. The greater diversity of microstructure-property arrangements and processing routes over glasses and ceramics are responsible that glass-ceramics are the preferred choice of materials in many technical, consumer, optical, medical/dental, electrical/electronic, and architectural fields. This includes increasing uses of glass-ceramic materials for environment and energy applications in the last decades. The positive development of glass-ceramic technology has become true in particular due to the pioneering spirit, resourcefulness, and courage of researchers of the first generation. Extraordinary and, therefore, to be distinguished is the work of the glass-ceramic inventor S. Donald Stookey to whom this Research Topic is dedicated. The authors, all experts in the field of glass-ceramics and based in industry, academia and governmental institutions, contributed to this E-book under the guidance of the Technical Committee 07 "Crystallization and Glass-Ceramics" of the International Commission on Glass (ICG). ER -