A simple look at your cell phone or tablet tells you that glasses are a key material in our modern society.

It is the chemical and topological variety in combination with unique processing methods that make glasses to a material with an extremely vast design and property space. This variety allows continued material and technological innovation but also brings along fundamental challenges for processing, structural stability, and property targeting. Increasing demands on sustainability, energy efficiency, and more specialized applications require novel approaches to glass discovery with higher predictability and shorter development times.

To address these problems, we collaborate with industry and academics on fundamental aspects of automated data-driven approaches in glass science as the future backbone of glass development, promoting reliable and reproducible glass making. In addition to these modern digital tools for chemical and structural glass design, we support the discovery and safe use of advanced glasses or glass-ceramics for the hydrogen economy, energy sector, or medical technology and microelectronics. Herein we focus on mechanical and thermo-kinetic properties of glasses, including relaxation, diffusion, internal friction, self-healing of cracks, sintering and crystallization.

These activities rely on strong ties between fundamental research and interconnected processing and diagnostics, helping us to contributing to continued innovation and safe applications of a century old but yet high-tech material.

further information

Andréa Simone Stucchi de Camargo, Division Glass, Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM)

Contact Prof. Dr. An­dréa de Ca­mar­go

Head of Glasses

Phone +49 30 8104-1560

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