Research and Markets has announced the addition to its offering of “Glass – The Challenge for the 21st Century” a special collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 9th ESG Conference, 22-2…
Research and Markets has announced the addition to its offering of “Glass – The Challenge for the 21st Century” a special collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 9th ESG Conference, 22-26 June 2008 at Trencn, in the Slovak Republic. The collection covers various aspects of glass science and glass technology, mutual interactions between glass science and glass technology, and their influence on the glass industry. Special attention is paid to new challenges to glass in the 21st century. The contributions deal with topics related to understanding and predicting the chemistry and technology of processing, fabrication, structure, properties and history of glass. The collection is divided into ten thematic sections: glass structure; thermodynamics, rheology, and the glass transition; physical properties of glass; optical, electrical and magnetic properties of glass; bioglass and chemical durability; nucleation, crystallization and sintering; glass melting; glass forming, and glass production; refractories; and, ecology and waste materials.