A review of rare earth elements and yttrium in coal ash: Content, modes of occurrences, combustion behavior, and extraction methods

B Fu, JC Hower, W Zhang, G Luo, H Hu… - Progress in Energy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Rare earth elements and yttrium (REY) have attracted considerable attention over the last
decade because of their vital roles in clean energy, consumer product, national defense and …

Transparent glass-ceramics functionalized by dispersed crystals

X Liu, J Zhou, S Zhou, Y Yue, J Qiu - Progress in Materials Science, 2018 - Elsevier
Transparent glass ceramics (TGCs) with minimized scattering loss offer the combined
characteristics of both glasses and (transparent) ceramics. The functionalities of the …

Structure and properties of sodium aluminosilicate glasses from molecular dynamics simulations

Y Xiang, J Du, MM Smedskjaer… - The Journal of chemical …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
Addition of alumina to sodium silicate glasses considerably improves the mechanical
properties and chemical durability and changes other properties such as ionic conductivity …

[HTML][HTML] Statistical mechanics of glass

JC Mauro, MM Smedskjaer - Journal of non-crystalline solids, 2014 - Elsevier
The field of glass science is quickly maturing from a purely empirical science to one built
upon rigorous fundamental physics. These advancements offer an unprecedented level of …

Deciphering the non-linear impact of Al on chemical durability of silicate glass

K Damodaran, JM Delaye, AG Kalinichev, S Gin - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The role of Al in aluminosilicate glasses remains somewhat a mystery: at low concentrations,
it increases the resistance to hydrolysis of the glass, whereas at high concentrations an …

Revealing the structural role of MgO in aluminosilicate glasses

B Deng, Y Shi, Q Zhou, M Bauchy - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
The addition of MgO to aluminosilicate glasses usually leads to significant changes for many
macroscopic properties. The underlying microscopic structure origin of this effect, however …

Hybrid machine learning/physics-based approach for predicting oxide glass-forming ability

CJ Wilkinson, C Trivelpiece, R Hust, RS Welch… - Acta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Predicting the liquid compositions that will vitrify at experimentally accessible quench rates
remains one of the grand challenges in the field of condensed matter physics. This glass …

Near-infrared photoluminescence properties of Er/Yb-and Ho/Yb-doped multicomponent silicate glass–The role of GeO2, Al2O3 and ZnO

P Vařák, P Nekvindová, J Baborák, J Oswald - Journal of Non-Crystalline …, 2022 - Elsevier
We prepared multicomponent silicate glass, which contained components with different
glass-forming abilities, such as GeO 2, Al 2 O 3 and ZnO, or different concentrations of glass …

Structure of strontium aluminosilicate glasses from molecular dynamics simulation, neutron diffraction, and nuclear magnetic resonance studies

T Charpentier, K Okhotnikov, AN Novikov… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The structure of strontium glasses with the composition (SiO2) 1–2 x (Al2O3) x (SrO) x
(R=[SrO]/[Al2O3]= 1) and (SiO2) 1–4 x (Al2O3) x (SrO) 3 x (R= 3) has been explored …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of additives on the crystallization and thermal conductivity of container glass cullet for foamed glass preparation

S Smiljanić, U Hribar, M Spreitzer, J König - Ceramics International, 2021 - Elsevier
Foamed glass preparation is a complex combination of reactions, greatly influenced by the
composition of the used glass and often hindered by simultaneous crystallization. The …