Provided is a silicate glass, a method for preparing a silicate glass-ceramics by using the silicate glass, and a method for preparing a lithium disilicate glass-ceramics by using the silicate glass, and more particularly, to a method for preparing a glass-ceramics that has a nanosize of 0.2 to 0.5 μm and contains lithium disilicate and silicate crystalline phases. A nano lithium disilicate glass-ceramics containing a SiO.sub.2 crystalline phase includes: a glass composition including 70 to 85 wt % SiO.sub.2, 10 to 13 wt % Li.sub.2O, 3 to 7 wt % P.sub.2O.sub.5 working as a nuclei formation agent, 0 to 5 wt % Al.sub.2O.sub.3 for increasing a glass transition temperature and a softening point and enhancing chemical durability of glass, 0 to 2 wt % ZrO.sub.2, 0.5 to 3 wt % CaO for increasing a thermal expansion coefficient of the glass, 0.5 to 3 wt % Na.sub.2O, 0.5 to 3 wt % K.sub.2O, and 1 to 2 wt % colorants, and 0 to 2.0 wt % mixture of MgO, ZnO, F, and La.sub.2O.sub.3.

A glass composition includes greater than or equal to 50 mol % and less than or equal to 70 mol % SiO.sub.2; greater than or equal to 10 mol % and less than or equal to 20 mol % Al.sub.2O.sub.3; greater than or equal to 1 mol % and less than or equal to 10 mol % B.sub.2O.sub.3; greater than or equal to 7 mol % and less than or equal to 14 mol % Li.sub.2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % Na.sub.2O; greater than 0 mol % and less than or equal to 1 mol % K.sub.2O; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 7 mol % CaO; greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % MgO; and greater than or equal to 0 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % ZnO. R.sub.2O+R′O is less than or equal to 25 mol %, wherein R.sub.2O is the sum of Li.sub.2O, Na.sub.2O, and K.sub.2O and R′O is the sum of CaO, MgO, and ZnO. The glass composition includes at least one of NiO+CO.sub.3O.sub.4+Cr.sub.2O.sub.3+CuO is greater than or equal to 0.001 mol %, CeO.sub.2 is greater than or equal to 0.1 mol %, and TiO.sub.2 is greater than or equal to 0.1 mol %.

A high-hardness transparent glass ceramic and a preparation method therefor, wherein the components by weight percentage include: 55.0%-70.0% of SiO.sub.2, 15.0%-20.0% of Al.sub.2O.sub.3, 0%-10.0% of MgO, and 0%-12.5% of ZnO, necessarily including one of MgO or ZnO, and the crystallized glass thereof contains microcrystals of spinel crystal. In the present invention, a suitable precursor glass is subjected to thermal treatment, and microcrystals are separated from the glass substrate by crystallization, producing a glass ceramic having a Moh's hardness greater than 7 and a visible-light transparency rate greater than 80% through 1 mm of the glass. The glass ceramic of the invention overcomes the problem that ordinary optical glass is easy to be scratched. The present glass ceramic can be served as protective face for mobile phones, protective glass for optical instruments and in communications equipment, substrate for magnetic disks, LCD panel, or protective glass for other optoelectronic devices.

A glass sheet includes, as represented by mole percentage based on oxides, from 55.5 to 80% of SiO.sub.2, from 12 to 20% of Al.sub.2O.sub.3, from 8 to 25% of Na.sub.2O, 2.5% or more of P.sub.2O.sub.5, and 1% or more of an alkaline earth metal RO (RO is MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO).

According to at least one embodiment a glass comprises: a refractive index N of greater than 1.65 at a wavelength λ, where λ=587.6 nm; a glass density of not more than 4.2 g/cm.sup.3; Abbe number V.sub.d greater than 30; the glass comprising greater than 0.03 wt % of rare earth oxide with an atomic number of 58 or higher.

A glass ceramic contains the following components by wt %: 60 to 80% of SiO.sub.2; 4 to 20% of Al.sub.2O.sub.3; 0 to 15% of Li.sub.2O; more than 0 but less than or equal to 12% of Na.sub.2O; 0 to 5% of K.sub.2O; more than 0 but less than or equal to 5% of ZrO.sub.2; 0 to 5% of P.sub.2O.sub.5; and 0 to 10% of TiO.sub.2. A crystalline phase contains at least one of R.sub.2SiO.sub.3, R.sub.2Si.sub.2O.sub.5, R.sub.2TiO.sub.3, R.sub.4Ti.sub.5O.sub.12, R.sub.3PO.sub.3, RAlSi.sub.2O.sub.6, RAlSiO.sub.4O.sub.10, R.sub.2Al.sub.2Si.sub.2O.sub.5, R.sub.4Al.sub.4Si.sub.5O.sub.18, quartz and quartz solid solution. With a liquidus temperature below 1,450° C., a thermal conductivity above 2 w/m.Math.k, and a Vickers hardness above 600 kgf/mm2, the glass ceramic is applicable to portable electronic devices and optical devices.

A glass material is provided, which has a composition of M.sub.2O—ZnO-M′.sub.20.sub.3—Bi.sub.2O.sub.3—SiO.sub.2, wherein M is Li, Na, K, or a combination thereof, and M′ is B, Al, or a combination thereof. A fluorescent composite material can be composed of the glass material and a phosphor material. The fluorescent composite material may collocate with an excitation light source to provide a light-emitting device.

An article comprises a body having a coating. The coating comprising a mixture of a first oxide and a second oxide. The coating includes a glaze on a surface of the coating, the glaze comprising a eutectic system having a super-lattice of a first fluoride and a second fluoride.

A glass for a pharmaceutical container of the present invention includes as a glass composition, in terms of mol %, 60% to 85% of SiO.sub.2, 3% to 20% of Al.sub.2O.sub.3, 0% to 5% of B.sub.2O.sub.3, 0% to 9% of Li.sub.2O, 0% to 12% of Na.sub.2O, 0% to 6% of K.sub.2O, 0.1% to 26% of Li.sub.2O+Na.sub.2O+K.sub.2O, 0% to 1% of SrO, and 0% to 1% of BaO, having a value for a molar ratio K.sub.2O/(Li.sub.2O+Na.sub.2O+K.sub.2O) of 0.60 or less, and having a value for a molar ratio Al.sub.2O.sub.3/(Li.sub.2O+Na.sub.2O+K.sub.2O) of 50 or less.

A method of manufacturing a lithium ion conductive glass ceramic, includes a step of forming granules using a material including an SiO.sub.2 source, a ZrO.sub.2 source, a P.sub.2O.sub.5 source and an Na.sub.2O source; a step of obtaining a powder including a glass ceramic by passing the granules under a heated gas phase atmosphere to melt the granules and solidifying the melted granules; a step of obtaining a target object including a glass ceramic by performing a heat treatment on the powder to precipitate crystals; and a step of obtaining a lithium ion conductive glass ceramic by performing an ion-exchange process on the target object in molten salt including lithium ions.