Look in the Learn examples Silly Geo(has nifty glowing stuff to look through) Features Tour 2014(the water and fire mat’s could be useful to make what you want) but more or less try different things and mix and match other materials in Learn projects to see what they do to make an cool effect and how they created the effects
Alot of my materials i make now i learned from messing with all the materials i saw in Learn projects, ya can also YouTube/google some material ideas some people have posted nifty ones