Crystals in Glass: A Hidden Beauty

By E. D. Zanotto

A "must-have" for materials engineers, chemists, physicists, and geologists, this is one of the first "coffee-table" books in the field of glass science.

Containing over fifty beautiful micrographs, the book reflects 35 years of original research by a highly regarded authority in the field. It contains 50 slides culled from tens of thousands of images on glass crystal nucleation, growth, and crystallization. The images represent glass crystallization mechanisms, including internal, surface, homogeneous, heterogeneous, and eutectic, crystal nucleation and growth.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wiley
• Release date: Jul 1, 2013
• ISBN: 9781118558911

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Zanotto, E. D. (Edgar Dutra)

Crystals in glass : a hidden beauty / by Edgar D. Zanotto.

pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-118-52143-4 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Glass-ceramics. 2. Silicate crystals.

3. Nucleation. 4. Crystallization. I. Title.

TP862.Z36 2013

660'.284298-dc23                                                                             2012045177

Printed in Singapore.

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Contents

Title

copyright

Dedication

Introduction

Acknowledgme

About the Author

Reviews of Crystals in Glass: A Hidden Beauty

Foreword

Chapter 1: Crystals in Glass

Part 1: Interna Nucleation In Glasses

Lithium Disilicate Crystals in an Isochemical Glass

Spherulitic Crystals in a Stoichiometric Barium Disilicate Glass

Internal Crystallization in Ti-cordierite Glass

Papaya-seed-like Nanocrystals in Fresnoite Glass

Lithium Diborate Crystals in an Isochemical Glass

Internal Crystal in a Diopside Glass

Lithium Niobium Disilicate (Double) Crystals in a Nonstoichiometric Glass

Crystals in Li2O-Doped Soda-lime-silica Glasses

Textured Worm-like Crystals in a Bioactive Glass Fiber

Liquid-liquid Phase Separation and Crystallization in Photo-thermo-refractive Glass

Star-like Crystals in the Volume of PTR Glass

Cristobalite Crystals in PTR Glass

Surface Layer and Internal Crystallization in PTR Glass

The Courtyard Effect in Stoichiometric Soda-lime-silica Glass

The Courtyard Effect in Stoichiometric Soda-lime-silica Glass

The Courtyard Effect—LS Crystals in a Eutectic Glass

Hematite Crystals in Soda-lime-silica Glass

Ionic Conducting Glass-ceramics

Part 2: Surface Nucleation on Glasses

Surface Crystallization of Lithium Diborate Glass

Cordierite Crystal on the Surface of a Cordierite Glass

Surface Nucleation on Cordierite Glass

Nucleation on Scratches, Cracks, and Bubbles

Crystals on Bubble Surfaces in a Diopside Glass

Surface Crystallization on a Calcium Phosphate Glass

Surface Crystallization on Ca-rich Diopside Glass

Surface Crystallization on Ca-rich Diopside Glass

Wollastonite Needles in a Commercial