Since the invention and further development of lasers in the 1960s, photonics has grown
into a field that permeates virtually every aspect of modern life. As photonics deals with the …

Due to the rapid expanding of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), hybrid electric
vehicles (HEVs) and electric vehicles (EVs), the projectfed demand for lithium-ion batteries …

Glass-ceramics are noted for their unusual combination of properties and manifold
commercialized products for consumer and specialized markets. Evolution of novel glass …

Patents and papers An idea of the scientific and commercial importance of glass-ceramics
comes from a search on Free-patents Online, which comprises granted patents or …

Porous single crystals are promising candidates for solar fuel production owing to their long
range charge diffusion length, structural coherence, and sufficient reactive sites. Here, a …

We review a plethora of relevant experimental results on internal homogeneous crystal
nucleation in silicate glasses obtained in the last four decades, and their analyses in the …

Nucleation is one of the primary contributions to the microstructure of glass-ceramics.
However, the nucleation process within glass-ceramics is not understood across all glass …

Charles Richter's observation that'only fools and charlatans predict earthquakes,'reflects the
fact that despite more than 100 years of effort, seismologists remain unable to do so with …

Vitrification is widely accepted as the most safe process for treating hazardous wastes and
converting them into leach-resistant materials. In this paper a review of the current and …

In the broadest sense, volcanic eruptions are either effusive or explosive. During explosive
eruptions magma fragments and eruption intensity is ultimately related to the fragmentation …