Advanced and specialty glasses are ...

Advanced and specialty glasses are being used for high technology and specialty applications. Compared to traditional glasses, many advanced and specialty glasses may contain specific additions or may be of entirely different compositions. Novel processe have been bring outed for many of these compositions. Certain properties of these glasses are substantially improved, making them useful for high technology and specialty applications. High performance glasses include fused silica, silicates, borosilicates, phosphates, germanates, chalcogenides, ionic glasses of the like kind as halides, nitrates, sulfates and carbonates, and glass-ceramics.

According to a soon-to-be-released updated report from BCC Advanced Glasses and Glass Ceramics: