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| Cold sintering of glass | |
| Program: | SRDA |
| Project leader: | Ing. Michálková Monika, PhD. |
| Annotation: | Glass is routinely produced on an industrial scale by cooling a glass forming melt. This versatile and well-established method facilitates the production of a large variety of compositions and shapes. However, it has its limits in terms of the maximum cooling rate that can be achieved, preventing the production of compositions with high tendency to crystallization. Also, it cannot produce complex shapes, such as bioactive glass scaffolds or glass filters with hierarchical porosity, or multicomponent and multilayered parts. To prepare such parts, glass powders (frits) are processed by advanced shaping methods known from ceramic technology, such as additive manufacturing or tape casting. The green compacts are then consolidated by viscous flow sintering at temperatures exceeding the transition temperature (Tg) of the respective glass. However, viscous flow sintering often results in partial or complete crystallization of the glass, impairing its properties (e.g. bioactivity, mechanical properties). The proposed project is thus focused on developing and optimising cold sintering of selected types of glass. These include (i) aluminate glasses with a high tendency to crystallisation that cannot be prepared by conventional cooling of the melt, (ii) complex shapes (scaffolds) of bioactive glasses with hierarchical porosity prepared by additive manufacturing, (iii) complex shapes (glass filters for wastewater remediation) from hitherto unrecyclable borosilicate pharmaceutical glass and (iv) multilayered glass structures prepared by tape-casting with tailored gradient of refraction indices and thermal expansion. As the densification of glass via the cold sintering process is not fully understood, fundamental studies of densification mechanisms will be also carried out. The results obtained in the project are of great industrial and scientific interest, contributing to (i) development of a new industrially scalable process of production of glass parts. |
| Duration: | 1.7.2024 – 30.6.2028 |
| Vývoj pokročilých luminiscenčných sklenených 3D štruktúr pomocou aditívnej výroby | |
| Development of advanced luminescent glass 3D structures by additive techniques | |
| Program: | VEGA |
| Project leader: | Ing. Michálková Monika, PhD. |
| Annotation: | The main goal of the project is to develop a new generation of luminescent phosphor-in-glass (PiG)optoelectronic materials with high efficiency, low-cost fabrication (3D printing), and tailored luminescenceproperties. Additive manufacturing will enable the combination of mutually supporting phosphors in differentlayers within a single glass matrix, thus improving the optical properties of the final material. In addition, thephosphors used for additive manufacturing will be prepared in spherical shapes – microspheres that can be solidor hollow – to further enhance the efficiency of the phosphor. |
| Duration: | 1.1.2024 – 31.12.2027 |