vitrification
Sign in to saveVitrification (, via French '''') is the full or partial transformation of a substance into a glass, that is to say, a non-crystalline or amorphous solid. Glasses differ from liquids structurally and glasses possess a higher degree of connectivity with the same Hausdorff dimensionality of bonds as crystals: dimH = 3. In the production of ceramics, vitrification is responsible for their impermeability to water.
Research
6,888 papers- The effects of vitrification on oocyte quality.Biology of reproduction · 2022
- Vitrification of immature oocytes in pigs.Animal science journal = Nihon chikusan Gakkaiho · 2024
- Human sperm vitrification: A scientific report.Andrology · 2020
- Vitrification of Mammalian Oocytes: Recent Studies on Mitochondrial Dysfunction.Biopreservation and biobanking · 2024
- Oocyte vitrification for elective fertility preservation: a SWOT analysis.Reproductive biomedicine online · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Ceramics
- Applications
- Vitrification in cryopreservation
- See also
- Literature
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Vitrification (, via French '') is the full or partial transformation of a substance into a glass, that is to say, a non-crystalline or amorphous solid. Glasses differ from liquids structurally and glasses possess a higher degree of connectivity with the same Hausdorff dimensionality of bonds as crystals: dimH = 3. In the production of ceramics, vitrification is responsible for their impermeability to water.
Vitrification is usually achieved by heating materials until they liquify, then cooling the liquid, often rapidly, so that it passes through the glass transition to form a glassy solid. Certain chemical reactions also result in glasses.
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