Professor, Materials Science and Engineering
Prof. Tomozawa has published extensively in the area of glass science and edited several books on the subject. He served as the Chair of the Glass and Optical Materials Division of the American Ceramic Society and is a distinguished life member of the American Ceramic Society.
His current research interest is glass and water interaction. Through this work, he found fast surface relaxation, which led to a new method of making stronger glass fibers and clarification of various mysteries of glasses, such as fatigue limit.
Hausmann, B.D., Minoru Tomozawa, M. (2023) Correlations between residual stress and water diffusion in silica glass at low temperatures, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 106, pp.1789-1794.
Hausmann, B.D., Aaldenberg, E.M., Tomozawa, M. (2021) Photoelastic confirmation of surface stress relaxation in silica glasses: Fiber bending and rod torsion, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 104, pp.3087-3096.
Aaldenberg, E.M., Aaldenberg, J.S., Blanchet, T.A., Tomozawa, M. (2019) Surface shear stress relaxation of silica glass, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 102, pp.4573-4582.
Hull, R., Keblinski, P., Lewis, D., Maniatty, A., Meunier, V., Oberai, A., Picu, C., Samuel, J., Shephard, M., Tomozawa, M., Vashishth, D., Zhang, S. (2018) Stochasticity in materials structure, properties, and processing -a review, Applied Physics Reviews, 5, 011302
Tomozawa, M., Davis, K.M., Seaman, J.H., Emily M. Aaldenberg, E.M. (2017) The origin of anomalous water diffusion in silica glasses at low temperatures, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, 100, 2017, pp.4548-4561.