• Glass and glass ceramics production (melt quenching, sol gel, heat treatment)
  • Production and characterisation of inorganic/hybrid sol-gel-based materials (glasses, xerogels, particles)
  • Solubility and transport of gases in glasses, ceramics and metals (water, hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide etc.)
  • Kinetics of nucleation, crystallisation, and sintering (sintered glass, glass matrix composites, glass ceramics)
  • Complex thermal analysis (relaxation, viscosity, sintering, thermal expansion, phase transformation and decomposition processes < 1600 °C)
  • Crack propagation and mechanical moduli
  • Design of optical and luminescent glasses and glass ceramics based on rare-earth and transition metal doping, metallic nanoclusters/-particles, phosphors
  • Structural-functional characterization based on combined spectroscopic approaches (Raman, solid state NMR, UV-Vis-NIR, steady state and time resolved photoluminescence)

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