Glass Ceramic Technology

Download or read book Glass Ceramic Technology written by Wolfram Holand and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-08 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glass-ceramic materials share many properties with both glass and more traditional crystalline ceramics. This new edition examines the various types of glass-ceramic materials, the methods of their development, and their countless applications. With expanded sections on biomaterials and highly bioactive products (i.e., Bioglass and related glass ceramics), as well as the newest mechanisms for the development of dental ceramics and theories on the development of nano-scaled glass-ceramics, here is a must-have guide for ceramic and materials engineers, managers, and designers in the ceramic and glass industry.