Recent crucial discoveries and perspectives on crystal nucleation in supercooled liquids and oxide glasses

LR Rodrigues, MHR Acosta, ED Zanotto - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to their measurable crystallization kinetics, oxide glass-formers are adequate systems
for evaluating theoretical approaches to describe and predict crystal nucleation dynamics …

Homogeneous crystal nucleation in silicate glasses: A 40 years perspective

VM Fokin, ED Zanotto, NS Yuritsyn… - Journal of Non …, 2006 - Elsevier
We review a plethora of relevant experimental results on internal homogeneous crystal
nucleation in silicate glasses obtained in the last four decades, and their analyses in the …

Grasping the Lithium hype: Insights into modern dental Lithium Silicate glass-ceramics

J Lubauer, R Belli, H Peterlik, K Hurle, U Lohbauer - Dental Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives Lithium-based glass-ceramics are currently dominating the landscape of dental
restorative ceramic materials, with new products taking the market by storm in the last years …

A review of classical and nonclassical nucleation theories

S Karthika, TK Radhakrishnan… - Crystal Growth & …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Nucleation, the initial process in vapor condensation, crystal nucleation, melting, and
boiling, is the localized emergence of a distinct thermodynamic phase at the nanoscale that …

Crystallization toughening of a model glass-ceramic

FC Serbena, I Mathias, CE Foerster, ED Zanotto - Acta Materialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Lithium disilicates are commercially important and among the most widely studied and well-
characterized glass-ceramics, but their toughening mechanism–and those of most glass …

Microstructural evolution and physical behavior of a lithium disilicate glass–ceramic

W Lien, HW Roberts, JA Platt, KS Vandewalle, TJ Hill… - Dental materials, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Elucidating the microstructural responses of the lithium disilicate system like the
popular IPS e. max® CAD (LS 2), made specifically for computer-aided design and …

Progressive and instantaneous nature of lithium nucleation discovered by dynamic and operando imaging

G Feng, Y Shi, H Jia, S Risal, X Yang, P Ruchhoeft… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The understanding of lithium (Li) nucleation and growth is important to design better
electrodes for high-performance batteries. However, the study of Li nucleation process is still …

Structural rearrangements during sub-Tg relaxation and nucleation in lithium disilicate glass revealed by a solid-state NMR and MD strategy

H Bradtmüller, A Gaddam, H Eckert, ED Zanotto - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Structural rearrangements taking place during relaxation and crystal nucleation in lithium-
disilicate (LS2) glass have been investigated by a comprehensive set of solid-state nuclear …

Nucleation Kinetics of Lithium Metasilicate in ZrO2‐Bearing Lithium Disilicate Glasses for Dental Application

S Krüger, J Deubener, C Ritzberger… - International Journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The effect of Z r O 2 on the nucleation of lithium metasilicate crystals in lithium disilicate‐
based multicomponent glasses of composition in wt% x Z r O 2+(1−(x/100))(73.82 S i O 2+ …

Effects of P2O5 and sintering temperature on microstructure and mechanical properties of lithium disilicate glass-ceramics

G Wen, X Zheng, L Song - Acta materialia, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the effect of P2O5 content and sintering temperature on the
microstructure of lithium disilicate glass-ceramics and analyzes the relation between …