D4: Glassy Materials and Micro/Nano Devices
A section of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X).
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Among the many advanced materials that constitute the backbone of modern technologies, glasses and glassy materials (e.g., amorphous polymers) play a very important role. They are cheap, generally easy to process, and can be designed with different compositions, thus allowing physicists and chemists to tailor their mechanical, thermal, electrical, and optical properties. This section will collect original and review papers to enlighten recent advances in this field, considering both material characteristics and processing technologies.
It will also provide an overview of these devices’ numerous potential applications, ranging from optomechanics and microfluidics to biomedicine, solar cells, and the broad field of photonic components and devices. Within the latter field, glass microdevices could play a pivotal role in advancing lab-on-chip platforms, chemical and biological sensors, and sophisticated optical guided-wave systems for both linear and nonlinear light transmission and manipulation.
Keywords
- glasses
- glassy polymers
- bioglasses
- micro/nano-glass devices
- glass fibers
- glass laser writing
- glass additive manufacturing
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