BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY
ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING
P. BOOLCHAND, UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
Super-strong melts, reversibility windows, topological phases
and physics of network glasses
ABSTRACT
At the heart of investigations of network glasses is their synthesis. It is
not an accident that these melts undergo slow homogenization. There
is a close connection between melt fragility index, melt
homogenization, sharpness of reversibility windows and observation of
Topological phases in modified oxides and chalcogenides. Topological
phases determine glass functionality and Physics of network glasses.
Select examples will be provided, including applications of these
materials.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH:
P. Boolchand is a condensed matter scientist, a professor in the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computing Systems (EECS)
in the College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) at the
University of Cincinnati (UC), where he is director of the Solid State
Physics and Electronic Materials Laboratory[1] He discovered the
Intermediate Phase: an elastically
percolative network glass
distinguished from traditional (clustered) liquid–gas spinodals by strong
non-local long-range interactions.
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