An overview on microwave processing of material: a special emphasis on glass melting

AK Mandal, R Sen - Materials and manufacturing processes, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Material processing adopting microwave heating has emerged as an alternative tool owing
to faster processing, a cleaner environment, and several other advantages. This review …

A comprehensive identification of optical transitions of cobalt ions in lithium borosilicate glasses

MG Moustafa, H Morshidy, AR Mohamed… - Journal of Non …, 2019 - Elsevier
Exploring the materials with distinct optical properties is still in progress. Hence, Co-doped
lithium borosilicate glasses of composition x Li 2 O–(80–x) B 2 O 3–19.6 SiO 2–0.4 CoO (x …

Towards superior optical and dielectric properties of borosilicate glasses containing tungsten and vanadium ions

MG Moustafa, A Shreif, S Ghalab - Materials Chemistry and Physics, 2020 - Elsevier
Transparent glasses of the composition (20–x) V 2 O 5–xWO 3–20SiO 2–60Li 2 B 4 O 7, x=
2, 4, 8 and 16 mol%, have been successfully synthesized by a popular melt quenching …

Fabrication and optical characterizations of lead calcium titanate borosilicate glasses

S Das, A Madheshiya, SS Gautam… - Journal of Non-Crystalline …, 2017 - Elsevier
Different glass samples were prepared in the system 59 [(Pb x Ca 1− x) O· TiO 2]-40 [2SiO 2·
B 2 O 3]-1Fe 2 O 3 (0≤ x≤ 0.7) employing a rapid melt-quenching technique. The IR …

Microwave and conventional preparation of Zinc borate glass: Eu3+ ion as luminescent probe

AK Mandal, S Balaji, R Sen - Journal of alloys and compounds, 2014 - Elsevier
Transparent Zinc borate glass is melted using microwave energy as an alternative heating
route to conventional resistive heating. A comparative study of the properties of the glasses …

A Comparative Spectrophotometric Study Using Ferrozine and 1,10-Ortho-phenanthroline to Evaluate the Iron Redox Ratio (Fe2+/ΣFe) in Glass Prepared by …

B Mandal, PK Sinha, R Sen, AK Mandal - Analytical Sciences, 2016 - Springer
In the present study, Fe-doped barium borosilicate glass has been melted at 1250° C under
microwave heating. The iron redox ratio (Fe2+/total Fe) in the glass is investigated by two …

Investigation of iron redox ratio in zinc borate glass prepared in microwave heating and comparison with conventional glass

B Mandal, A Halder, PK Sinha, R Sen… - Journal of Non-Crystalline …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Glass comprising B 2 O 3-Al 2 O 3-Na 2 O-ZnO with doping iron metal powder has
been melted at 1200° C under microwave heating. The identical batch was melted in …

A comparative property investigation of lithium phosphate glass melted in microwave and conventional heating

A Halder, B Mandal, S Mahanty, R Sen… - Bulletin of Materials …, 2017 - Springer
The present study addresses the application of microwave (MW) energy for melting lithium
phosphate glass. A comparative analysis of the properties is presented with glasses melted …

Glass foam

S Cooper, V Mukheja, T Gullinkala - US Patent 10,479,717, 2019 - Google Patents
A glass foam and methods of producing the same are disclosed. The glass foam is produced
from a dried glass precursor gel having nanometer-sized pores and a bulk amorphous oxide …

Glass coatings and methods to deposit same

S Cooper, V Mukheja, T Gullinkala - US Patent 10,427,970, 2019 - Google Patents
A dried glass precursor gel and methods of depositing a powderized or wire form of the
dried glass precursor gel to form a glass substrate and/or coating are disclosed. The dried …