Glasspanacea: A User-Friendly Free Software Tool

Glasses, glass-ceramics, and ceramics are extremely versatile materials with a wide range of applications in numerous segments of modern society. To synthesize exising and new materials of this class, immense chemical combinations are possible from all the 80 useful elements of the periodic table. However, one must determine which chemicals and how much of each to use to prepare any formulation and batch. This article describes a newly-developed software tool which eases the selection of chemicals and improves the accuracy of calculations for formulations.