1. Impacts of substitution of alkali by zinc on thermo-mechanical properties in borosilicate glasses.
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Zhou, Hemin, Xiao, Guanzhou, Zheng, Qingshuang, Qiao, Ang, and Tao, Haizheng
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BOROSILICATES , *GLASS transition temperature , *ZINC , *TRANSITION temperature , *ALKALI metal ions , *THERMAL expansion - Abstract
To decipher the effects of replacing alkali with zinc on thermo-mechanical properties, a series of borosilicate glasses with the molar compositions of 70.65SiO 2 ·21.09B 2 O 3 ·1.88Al 2 O 3 ·1Li 2 O·(5.38- x)R 2 O· x ZnO (x = 0, 0.34, 0.67, 1, 1.34, 2.69, 4.04, and 5.38) were prepared. Upon adding a slight quantity of ZnO, a local extreme point for glass transition temperature (T g) appears. This behavior is deciphered to be originated from two opposite factors. On one hand, T g reduces as a characteristic of the colligative properties for a dilute solution; in addition, T g rises due to the higher field strength, bond energy and covalent characteristic of zinc cations compared to that of alkali ions. Otherwise, based on the evolution of intermediate-range clusters revealed by infrared, Raman and NMR spectra, we elucidate the atomic-scale structural origin, which leads to the nonlinear evolution of elastic moduli and coefficient of thermal expansion with the molar ratio of [ZnO]/([R 2 O]+[ZnO]). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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