Glass-Ceramics: Materials, Synthesis and Applications

Dear Colleagues,

Glass-ceramic materials play a substantial role in the progress of science and technology due to their broad range of applications in diverse fields. Different processing routes such as conventional melt-quench methods, the petrurgic method or sinter-crystallisation procedures combined with numerous conformation techniques can lead to the production of glass-ceramics in the form of particulates, dense materials, porous bodies, films, coatings or composite structures, which can help address a number of technological challenges.  

This Special Issue is aims to publish research works which show recent advances in glass-ceramic materials from a wide approach, involving manufacturing methods, forming processes or applications, paying special attention to the relationship between processing, microstructure and properties.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript for this Special Issue of the MDPI journal Materials.

Dr. Acacio Rincon Romero
Guest Editor

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• glass-ceramics
• manufacturing
• sintering
• heat treatment
• crystallisation