Investigations on temperature dependent structural evolution of NaPO3glass

The understanding of molecular level structural information of phosphate glasses is very much essential. The unique microwave-absorbing ability of NaH2PO4·2H2O was found to be very useful for preparing crystal and glassy sodium super ionic conductors (Nasicon's) as a component of batch mixtures. In this work NaPO3 glass was prepared by both conventional melt quench and microwave heating from NaH2PO4·2H2O as a starting material. The structure of NaPO3 glass and their structural evolution upon heating through glass transition were probed by combination of complementary techniques like differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and thermo-Raman spectroscopy.