Book description
Glass-ceramic materials share many properties with both glass and more
traditional crystalline ceramics. This new edition examines the various
types of glass-ceramic materials, the methods of their development, and
their countless applications. With expanded sections on biomaterials and
highly bioactive products (i. e., Bioglass and related glass ceramics),
as well as the newest mechanisms for the development of dental ceramics
and theories on the development of nano-scaled glass-ceramics, here is a
must-have guide for ceramic and materials engineers, managers, and
designers in the ceramic and glass industry.
WOLFRAM HÃ-LAND, PhD, is the Head of the Department of Research
and Development, Inorganic Chemistry Technical Fundamentals, at
Ivoclar Vivadent AG, Liechtenstein. He is also a Lecturer in the
Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Eidgenössische Technische
Hochschule (ETH Zurich) in Switzerland. Dr. Höland is the recipient
of several awards, including the Wöhler Prize of the German Chemical
Society and the Turner Award of the International Commission on Glass.
GEORGE H. BEALL, PhD, received his PhD in geology from MIT in
1962 and was a Research Fellow in the Science and Technology Division
of Corning Incorporated, Corning, New York. Until 1995, Dr. Beall was
a Courtesy Professor in the Department of Materials Science and
Engineering at Cornell University, and has authored or coauthored
approximately eighty technical papers and one book, and holds more
than 100 U. S. patents.
