Summary
Specialty glass manufacturing is annually a €30 billion industry worldwide and transparent oxide glasses are one of the most important engineering and functional material families owing to their unique features, such as tailorable physical properties. However, at the same time, intrinsic brittleness continues to be their main drawback, which severely restricts many applications.
In the proposed project, we will explore the possibility to improve the fracture toughness and damage resistance of oxide glasses through controlled nanoscale phase separation, as the presence of inclusions can lead to crack deflection or trapping. The size of these heterogeneities needs to be small enough (
In the proposed project, we will explore the possibility to improve the fracture toughness and damage resistance of oxide glasses through controlled nanoscale phase separation, as the presence of inclusions can lead to crack deflection or trapping. The size of these heterogeneities needs to be small enough (
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| Web resources: | https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/882520 |
| Start date: | 01-10-2020 |
| End date: | 30-09-2022 |
| Total budget - Public funding: | 207 312,00 Euro - 207 312,00 Euro |
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Specialty glass manufacturing is annually a €30 billion industry worldwide and transparent oxide glasses are one of the most important engineering and functional material families owing to their unique features, such as tailorable physical properties. However, at the same time, intrinsic brittleness continues to be their main drawback, which severely restricts many applications.In the proposed project, we will explore the possibility to improve the fracture toughness and damage resistance of oxide glasses through controlled nanoscale phase separation, as the presence of inclusions can lead to crack deflection or trapping. The size of these heterogeneities needs to be small enough (
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CLOSEDCall topic
MSCA-IF-2019Update Date
28-04-2024
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