Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses

Dr. Arun K. Varshneya is Professor Emeritus of Glass Science and Engineering at Alfred University, USA. Prior to joining the faculty at Alfred’s New York State College of Ceramics in 1982, he worked as a senior scientist for Ford and General Electric Lighting Business Group. Arun is currently president of Saxon Glass Technologies Inc. which specializes in strengthening glass for various industries. He is the invited author of the “Industrial Glass” entry in Encyclopedia Britannica and has more than 160 technical publications covering a broad range of topics in glass. Arun is a Distinguished Life Member of the American Ceramics Society, an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Glass Technology, and a recipient of the President’s Award from the International Commission on Glass for lifetime achievements. Varshneya earned a B.Sc. from Agra University in India, a B.Sc. with Honors in glass technology from the University of Sheffield (U.K.), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in materials science, both from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio Dr. John C. Mauro is Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. John earned a BS in Glass Engineering Science (2001), BA in Computer Science (2001), and PhD in Glass Science (2006), all from Alfred University. He joined Corning Incorporated in 1999 and served in multiple roles there, including Senior Research Manager of the Glass Research department. John holds more than 50 granted US patents and is the inventor or co-inventor of several new glasses for Corning, including Corning Gorilla® Glass products. John joined the faculty at Penn State in 2017 and is currently a world-recognized leader in fundamental and applied glass science, materials kinetics, computational and condensed matter physics, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and the topology of disordered networks. He is the author of over 280 peer-reviewed publications, Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, winner of numerous international awards, and a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the Society of Glass Technology. John is also co-author of Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses, 3rd ed., Elsevier (2019).

• 1. Introduction2. Fundamentals of the Glassy State3. Glass Formation Principles4. Glass Microstructure: Phase Separation and Liquid Immiscibility5. Glass Compositions and Structures6. Composition-Structure-Property Relationship Principles7. Density and Molar Volume8. Elastic Properties and Microhardness of Glass9. The Viscosity of Glass10. Thermal Expansion of Glass11. Heat Capacity of Glass12. Thermal Conductivity and Acoustic Properties of Glass13. Glass Transition Range Behavior14. Permeation, Diffusion, and Ionic Conduction in Glass15. Dielectric Properties16. Electronic Conduction17. Chemical Durability18. Strength and Toughness19. Optical Properties20. Glass Surfaces21. Modeling of Glass22. Fundamentals of Inorganic Glass Making23. Emerging Applications of Glass