Session 2: Glass Crystallization and Glass Ceramics

This session is devoted to advancing our fundamental understanding of crystallization in glasses and its application in glass-ceramics and related materials. The symposium will cover experimental, analytical/characterization, as well as numerical/modeling aspects of nucleation and growth in glass-forming materials. Topics to be covered include, but are not limited to, the following.

• Theoretical, simulation, and experimental studies of nucleation and crystal growth in glasses and liquids
• The role of glass composition, structure, and nucleating agents on crystallization
• Phase separation and its role in influencing crystallization
• Novel methods and characterization techniques (ex-situ, in-situ) to understand crystallization
• Modeling and simulation techniques to elucidate crystallization and glass-forming ability of liquids
• Crystallization phenomena in organic and metallic materials
• Novel processing techniques for glass-ceramics
• Microstructure/property relationships in glass-ceramics
• Predicting glass-ceramic generation
• Applications of glass-ceramics

Organizers:

• Hrishikesh Kamat, Glidewell Laboratories, USA  kamat@glidewelldental.com 
• Alfonso Pedone, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy  pedone@unimore.it 
• Ashutosh Goel, Rutgers University, USA, ag1179@soe.rutgers.edu