PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF METAL OXIDE GLASS COMPOSITES 1. Fundamentals of glasses 2. Metal oxide glass nanocomposites 3. Features of metal oxide glass composite synthesis 4. Experimental tools for characterisations of glass-nanocomposites containing metal oxides
PART 2: FEATURES OF METAL OXIDE GLASS COMPOSITE PROPERTIES 5. Mechanical properties of oxide glassy nanocomposites 6. Microhardness of some glassy nanocomposites 7. Features of chemical properties of metal oxide glass nanocomposites 8. Electron and ion transport in metal oxide glass composites 9. Frequency dependent ac conductivity of some vanadate glass-nanocomposites 10. Electrical transport of some ionic glass-nanocomposites 11. Dc and ac conductivity of some lithium ion conducting glassy nanocomposites 12. Dielectric properties of oxide glass composites
PART 3: APPLICATIONS OF METAL OXIDE GLASS COMPOSITES 13. Electrodes 14. Photonic glass-ceramics 15. Biomedical applications 16. Metal oxide glass fibers 17. Other applications
Dr. Sanjib Bhattacharya is currently the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Composite Materials Research Laboratory at the Siliguri Insitute of Technology. He is also the PI of the ongoing major CSIR-funded research project "Relaxation Dynamics of Lithium Ion Conducting Glass-Ceramics. Dr. Bhattacharya's research interests include the study of electrical transport, glass and glass-nanocomposites, and chalcogenide glass alloys. Dr. Bhattacharya has authored 39 papers and has given 29 presentations at international conferences.