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2017
ACL
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Y.Gueguen, P.Houizot, F.Célarié, M.Chen, A.Hirata, Y.Tan, M.Allix, S.Chenu, C.Roux-Langlois, T.Rouxel, 'Structure and viscosity of phase separated BaO-SiO2 glasses', J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 100 1982-1993 (2017) doi:10.1111/jace.14642
Barium silicate glasses with 0 to 40 mol. % BaO were synthesized either by
aerodynamical levitation and laser heating (at low barium content) or by conventional melting
and quenching process. Characterization by means of Raman scattering spectroscopy and
scanning transmission electron microscopy reveals a structural transition between glasses
with low BaO content (< 10 mol%) showing an atomic network resembling the one of
amorphous silica, and glasses with a BaO content larger than 10 mol. %, which exhibit the
typical signature of a binary silicate glass with Q2 and Q3 units. Viscosity curves show a
marked increase of the viscosity as the BaO content decreases below 20 mol. %. Barium is
found to easily diffuse and to promote phase separation while silicon remains homogeneously
distributed. A dramatic increase of the viscosity is observed as phase separation proceeds,
resulting in the formation of Ba-rich nodules in a percolating SiO2-rich matrix at low barium
content, or in Ba-poor nodules in a BaO-rich matrix at large barium content.
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