Cet ouvrage aborde à la fois des aspects théoriques ainsi que des applications industrielles. Il arrive à point pour transmettre et initier au verre un plus large public. L’ouvrage traite des points suivants :
• origine
• définition
• analyse de la structure nanométrique et de ses propriétés physiques
• analyse de ses propriétés chimiques
• techniques d’élaboration et de mise en oeuvre.

Ce livre s’adresse aux chercheurs, enseignants et professionnels du verre, ainsi qu’à toute autre personne souhaitant acquérir des connaissances de base sur ce matériau.

Cet ouvrage est traduit du français par William D. Scott et Claire Massart. L'original en français a été publié en 1982. La bibliographie a été complétée. Des informations ont été ajoutées sur les verres d'halogénures et les verres métalliques. Un chapitre supplémentaire traite de la synthèse de verres à partir de gels.

This monograph stems from the lectures given during the summer course at the University of La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain. It includes the main characterization techniques useful nowadays for ceramics, glasses, and glass-ceramics, and reviews the new microscopes for characterizing materials, and gives an overview of inorganic materials such as zeolites. The theory for XRD texture analysis and analytical methods are also covered.

This book is one of the series reporting on international research and development activities on products and processes conducted by the Schott Group. It is written by experts from the Schott R&D department and their external partners in research. The glass melts are good electrolytes and the importance of electrochemistry for them is quite obvious. With glass articles, electrochemistry is always involved and some articles are fabricated because of the electrochemical properties of their glass parts. This volume gives background knowledge on the electrochemical behaviour of glass melts and solid glasses. Redox and ion-transfer processes, which are responsible for many phenomena observed in glass during processing or in its daily use, are extensively treated. Practical examples provide the reader with the facts for studying the various electrochemical aspects of the behaviour of ion-conducting materials. Among these are : mechanisms responsible for glass corrosion ; fundamental and the application of glass electrodes for pH measurements, complemented by information about the ongoing redefinition by IUPAC ; field-driven ion exchange at glass surfaces or within electrochromic thin-film systems ; fining during production processes ; interface reactions and thermodynamic equilibria of glass melts with refractories or the surrounding atmosphere.