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Physics: Glass physics deals with topics such as the nature of the glass transition, optical properties of glass, fracture mechanics, and the modeling of glass behavior based on fundamental thermodynamic principles (deductive glass modeling). Important articles, for example, Viscosity, Optical fiber, Physics of glass or Refractive index are summarized in the categories Glass physics and Glass engineering and science.

Further glass physics topics and things to do

Fracture mechanics. Unfortunately, the theory of fracture mechanics in brittle materials is quite laborious - though interesting. Fortunately, we already have an excellent start on the subject in our article on fracture mechanics. Key texts in this field have been authored by R.W.Davidge, Brian Lawn and David Green as part of the Cambridge Solid State Science Series, with UCSB's A.G 'Tony' Evans from Princeton on the cutting edge in the field of composite materials. Based on the texts alone, we could easily double (or even triple) the size of the current article to include additional key factors, such as the movement of dislocations (and other microstructural features), the local chemistry in the vicinity of a crack tip, and their net impact on creep, fatigue, plastic deformation and crack tip propagation in glasses and glass-ceramics.

Things to do, Glass Physics:

Some of the articles do not contain any section understandable for a layman, for example Viscosity of amorphous materials, Physics of glass, or Glass transition. However, an encyclopedia should, besides providing highly technical information, also be accessible to the public and arose interest in beginning students.
Expansion of the article about Ernst Abbe, whose optics research, such as about the Abbe sine condition stimulated the beginning of glass science because high-quality glasses with specific optical properties were desired for practical tests, leading finally to a strong development of the company of Carl Zeiss.
Preparation of a task force Optics, based on the old project.

To-do list for Talk:Optical fiber: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2022-07-14

Expert peer review for the areas on long-distance (telecom) links.
In the history section, add contributions of NTT.
In the history section, mention the introduction of EDFAs into real-world service (date and details).
Use suggestions from Peer Review.
Explain why, if it's glass, it doesn't break. (Strength of glass).

Chemistry: Important topics within glass chemistry are glass composition formulation or glass modeling for obtaining certain desired properties, for example liquidus temperature, optical properties, viscosity, color, or corrosion behavior, as well as glass coating and surface modification for insulation glass, vehicle windshields, anti-fog glass, DNA microarrays, or printing-on-glass compositions based on alkoxy silane coupling agents.

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