Glasses and glass-ceramics produced by melting

The group has a wide experience in sealing glasses and glass-ceramics for ceramic and metallic components of very different nature and in applications that go from room temperature use to very high temperatures and extreme atmospheres.One major challenges for the [...]

The main interests of the group in phosphate glasses deal with their applications in optics and energy fields. On the one hand, neodymium doped phosphate glasses are currently the best solution as hosts for high energy and high power lasers, [...]

Rare-earth (RE) doped oxyfluoride glass-ceramics possess interesting optical properties with application in telecommunications and optoelectronics. These materials combine the transparency and mechanical and chemical resistance of aluminosilicate glasses with the low phonon energy and facile incorporation of RE ions [...]

Energy saving is an essential goal of energy intensive industrial processes, including glass melting processes. There is a strong interaction and collaboration with glass producers to enhance the efficiency of melting processes by different routes. We analyze the effect [...]

Stained-glass windows and glass objects are related to luxurious objects along the history and their study offers a unique opportunity to understand this important heritage and to prevent their decay. This research line, launched by the ComFuturo research project EnViCET, [...]