Session 4: Surfaces and Coatings

Glass surfaces remain an enduring area of scientific and technological challenges for applications of glass, and approaches to understand, and customize, surface and interfacial behaviors with glass modifications and value-added coatings represent a critical direction for glass’ future.

This session will focus on surfaces and interfaces in glassy and film-related systems, with a scope that includes fundamental studies of intrinsic glass surfaces, structure-property relations at surfaces/interfaces, innovations in glass surface characterization, novel methods for modifying surfaces, emerging concepts around functional coatings on glass, and properties of glassy/amorphous thin films.

Organizers:

• Matthew Linford, Bingham Young University, USA, mrlinford@chem.byu.edu
• Joy Banerjee, Corning Inc, USA, banerjeej@corning.com
• Adam Polcyn, Vitro Architectural Glass, USA, apolcyn@vitro.com