This course is intended to provide the fundamental knowledge on science and technology of glass and amorphous materials, especially composed of inorganic materials. The relationship between structure and properties of these materials is explained with the correlation with the materials processing. Thermal, optical, chemical and mechanical properties are shown in detail because these materials have been widely used in industry.
Gain an understanding of the scientific knowledge on glass and amorphous materials with their wide variety of application fields.
Gain an understanding of the material processing and manufacturing methods for glass and amorphous materials.
glass, amorphous, structure, properties, melting
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | Communication skills | Critical thinking skills | Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
Important issues on glass and amorphous materials are chosen, and lectures are given together with their correlations. In addition, characteristic structure and properties are shown with the application filed of these materials in industry.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | Introduction -Classification of glass and amorphous in materials | definition of glass/amorphous glass transition phenonenon super-cooled liquid |
Class 2 | Criteria on glass forming ability of inorganic materials | glass network former, network modifier, Zachariazen rule, Sun rule, single bond strength, corner-sharing |
Class 3 | Glass forming region and critical cooling rate from the point of view of chemical compounds | glass forming region, critical cooling rate, Time-Temperature-Transformation curve |
Class 4 | Stucture of glass and amorphous materilas (1) | glass structure, bridging oxygen/non-bridging oxygen, SiO2 glass, acid-basic reaction |
Class 5 | Stucture of glass and amorphous materilas (2) | B2O3 glass, triangle BO3 unit, coordination number, structural conversion |
Class 6 | Stucture of glass and amorphous materilas (13) | P2O5 glass, non-bridging oxygen P=O double bond resonance structure |
Class 7 | Preparation procedure of glass and amorphous materials | glass melting, crucible melting, tank melting, batch, forming/molding, annealing |
Class 8 | Chemical reactions in glass preparation | vitrification reaction, thermal decomposition, acid-basic reaction, production of gas phase, foaming |
Class 9 | Glass manufacturing and refractory for furnace | glass manufacture, refractory |
Class 10 | Low temperature process for glass (liquid-phase process; Sol-Gel) | liquid phase systhesis, sol-gel process, hydration reaction, poly-condensation reaction, catalysis |
Class 11 | Characterization of glass -Thermal properties | thermal property, glass transition temperature, thermal expansion, thermal conductivity, viscosity |
Class 12 | Characterization of glass -Optical properties | optical property, optical window, refractive index, dispersion, Abbe number, Intric absorption edge, multiphonon absorption, Rayleigh scattering, optical loss, colored glass, laser glass |
Class 13 | Characterization of glass -Chemical properties | chemical property, chemical durability, corrosion, dissolution rate |
Class 14 | Characterization of glass -Mechanical properties | mechanical property, fracture toughness of glass,Griffith's theory, crack growth, Vickers hardness, brittleness, cutting, strengthening of glass |
Class 15 | Special application of glass -Topics | special applicaiton of glass |
not specified
Printed doccuments are given in lecture
Some reference books are introduced in lecture.
Achievement is evaluated by the percentage of attendance, homeworks and final exam.
Enrollment of inorganic chemistry, thermal physics and chemical physics is desired.