Research Progress in the Structure and Properties of Novel Functional Glasses
A special issue of Materials (ISSN 1996-1944). This special issue belongs to the section "Advanced and Functional Ceramics and Glasses".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 March 2026 | Viewed by 11
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Interests: glass; ceramics; thin films; sol–gel; magnetron sputtering; glass ceramics; biomaterials; photonic materials; nanomaterials; spin coating
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Dear Colleagues,
Nowadays, glass is gaining increased interest due to the potential collapse of the plastics industry. In particular, the new functionalities of glass are of special interest to scientists and technology groups.
Some new types of functional glass have been investigated thus far, including functional glass for lasers, novel functional glass fibres, functional glass for visible optics, functional infrared glass lenses, functional glass microspheres for Whispering Gallery Mode lasers and resonators, functional glass and glass–ceramic biocoatings and/or implants, functional oxide and non-oxide glass for space applications, and functional glass–graphene fibres. Investigations have also been conducted on novel functional thin films for metallic glasses with a dual-phase structure and novel multi-doped functional glasses with magnetic properties.
Well-known methods of investigating the structure and properties of such functional glasses include UV-Vis, FTIR and Raman spectroscopy, SEM, and TEM. Newer methods are also used, such as the combined mathematical–spectroscopic technique and single-pulse laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–time-of-flight mass spectrometry (single-pulse LA-ICP-TOFMS).
The list of novel functional glasses is constantly growing, with new challenges arising each year. These challenges are leading to the development of new dedicated structures, dual glasses, and functionalities, as well as new methods of investigation based on these new types of glass. This is the main reason for establishing this Special Issue, and we hope that new information and papers on this subject will be published very soon.
Prof. Dr. Bogdan Alexandru Sava
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- functional glass
- structure of glass
- SEM
- TEM
- FTIR
- Raman
- special properties
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