Explanation
Glass-ceramics, also known as glass-ceramics and microcrystalline ceramics, was invented by the famous glass chemist and inventor S.D. Stookey in the mid-1950s. It is a polycrystal solid materials containing glass body by controlled nucleation and crystallization of certain basic glass with specific composition at a certain temperature. The performance of glass-ceramics is mainly determined by the main crystal phase, which can be achieved by controlling nucleation, crystallization and selecting different parent glass components. glass-ceramics have the characteristics of both glass and ceramics, and are superior to metals and polymer in thermal, chemical, biological, optical and electrical properties.
Classification
Inorganic non-metallic materials -> Advanced ceramics