Nanomaterials

Glass-ceramics Evolution & Kitaigorodskii

Russian scientist Isaak Il’ich Kitaigorodskii played a central role in shaping the field of glass and glass-ceramic development, significantly expanding potential applications of these novel materials. Our well-known glass-ceramics textbooks by McMillan,1 Hlaváč,2 and Höland & Beall3 highlight the history of a key discovery: In 1739, French chemist René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur became the first …

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LionGlass

Researchers at Penn State University, USA, have created a new family of glass compositions, called Lionglass, that will help lower energy costs and extend tank lifetimes. Lionglass is a new family of glass chemistry developed by a team of glass researchers at Penn State University. LionGlass is meant to replace soda lime silicate glass — the …

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Modern definition of bioactive glasses

Bioactive glasses (BGs) and glass-ceramics (BGCs) have become a diverse family of materials being applied for treatment of many medical conditions. The traditional understanding of bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics pins them to bone-bonding capability without considering the other fields where they excel, such as soft tissue repair. We attempt to provide an updated definition of BGs …

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Special Issue on Advanced Ceramics

Dear Colleagues, Launched in 2008, Materials has provided readers with high-quality content edited by active researchers in material science for 15 years, by sustainable open access and outstanding editorial service. Today, the published papers receive more than 1,500,000 views per month, with readers in more than 150 countries and regions. The current Special Issue, “The …

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Special Issue on Biomaterials

An urgent demand for ideal biomaterials has been considerably increasing across the world over the last decades and has been even more significant these days. This special issue of the Iranian Journal of Materials Science and Engineering (IJMSE) aims to publish the recent advances in fundamental researches on biomaterials and their forefront of applications. We …

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