Germanate Glasses and Melts

James E Shelby

• Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN:
  9781837672080
• eBook ISBN:
  9781837678129
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Inorganic Chemistry
• Index: Technology & Engineering

This book provides a comprehensive review of the properties, structure, and applications of germanate glasses and melts. These glasses are of great interest to basic glass scientists due to their unusual trends in many properties, commonly known as the "germanate anomaly", and their ability to combine with other glass forming oxides such as SiO₂ and B₂O₃, resulting in glasses with unique properties.

This book also provides an overview of the current and potential applications of germanate glasses which range from the use of GeO₂ as a dopant in telecommunication fibers to future uses in non-optical applications such as radiation shielding and specialized hermetic glass-to-metal seals.

Authored by an expert on the formation and properties of glasses, this is an excellent companion for academics and postgraduates, while the application focus will appeal to those working in industry.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Chapter 1 History of Germanate Glasses
• Chapter 2 Models for the Structures of Germanate Glasses
• Chapter 3 Vitreous GeO2
• Chapter 4 Germanate Glasses Containing Only Glassformers
• Chapter 5 Germanate Glasses Containing Conditional Glassformers
• Chapter 6 Monovalent Cations in Germanate Glasses and Melts
• Chapter 7 Mixed Monovalent Germanate Glasses
• Chapter 8 RO Germanate Glasses
• Chapter 9 PbO and SnO Germanate Glasses
• Chapter 10 Germanate Glasses Containing a Modifier Oxide and Either SiO2 or B2O3
• Chapter 11 R2O–M2O3–GeO2 Glasses
• Chapter 12 RO–M2O3–GeO2 Glasses
• Chapter 13 Germanate Glasses Containing Nb2O5 or Ta2O5
• Chapter 14 Rare Earths in Germanate Glasses
• Chapter 15 Fluorogermanate Glasses
• Chapter 16 Applications of Germanate Glasses
• Subject Index