SYMPOSIUM 38 – Glass Surfaces, Interfaces, and Interactions with its Environment

Surfaces and interfaces are critical to nearly every modern application of glass, as they mediate interactions with light and the environment, and dictate its practical durability and functionality over its lifetime. New approaches to thus understand and customize surface and interfacial behaviors—by predicting glass degradation, making glass surface modifications, or applying value-added coatings—all represent critical directions for the future of technical glass. This session will focus on the surfaces and interfaces of glass and glass-ceramic systems, including dissolution and interfacial reactions of glass in aqueous environments (e.g. hydrolysis, interdiffusion, interfacial structures and alteration layers); surface sorption and transport phenomena; innovations in glass surface characterization; novel methods for modifying glass surfaces and measuring dissolution and interfacial reactions; glasses from waste immobilization to bioactive glasses; and all manner of functional coatings on glass. Particularly encouraged are studies combining both modeling and experimental methodologies to understand interfacial mechanisms or predict degradation kinetics.

Session Topics:

Glass surface and interfaces – fundamentals and applications
Glass and glass-ceramics for waste immobilization
Modeling glass corrosion and surface phenomena
Glass coatings and surface modification

Symposium Organizer(s):

Nicholas Smith, Corning Inc., USA
Joelle Reiser, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Maziar Montazerian, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Point(s) of Contact:

Nicholas Smith; smithnj@corning.com

Division Sponsor(s):

Glass and Optical Materials Division