Advanced Research on Structure, Properties, and Applications of Glass Materials
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2024 | Viewed by 77
Special Issue Editors
Interests: glasses; glass-ceramics; optoelectronics; photonics; radioactive waste management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Exploring the composition–structure–property relationship of glass materials is an attractive area for both fundamental and applied research owing to their high applicative potential, including in environmental protection, optoelectronics, photonics, or nuclear physics. The structural flexibility of glass enables an extensive range of elements to be accommodated, dissolved, dispersed and stabilized, giving it unique properties and enhanced functional capabilities.
This Special Issue, entitled “Advanced Research on Structure, Properties, and Applications of Glass Materials”, aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements in glass materials and the future challenges associated with these materials in engineering solutions.
This Special Issue calls for original research, short communications or review papers that focus on novel glass compositions and the processing, prediction, characteristics, behavioral evolution, application and potential of glass materials.
Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Heavy metal oxide glasses;
- Glass as nuclear waste forms;
- Glass containing actinide surrogates;
- Glass as rare-earth host material;
- Glasses containing transition metal ions;
- Luminescent glass materials;
- Glasses for solar energy conversion;
- Radiation-shielding glasses;
- Surface plasmon resonance effect of nanoparticles in glass;
- Glass innovations.
Dr. Mioara Zagrai
Dr. Ramona-Crina Suciu
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- glass
- glass forming ability
- devitrification
- structure characteristics
- nuclear waste management
- simulated high-level liquid wastes
- gamma-ray shielding
- electronic structure
- luminescence performance
- up-/down-conversion
