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Title: Vibrational spectroscopy analysis of silica and silicate glass networks

Journal Article · · Journal of the American Ceramic Society
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.18206· OSTI ID:1865531

Vibrational spectroscopy has been widely used to investigate various structural aspects of the glass network, and there are a plethora of papers reporting subtle but consistent changes in infrared and Raman spectral features of glass upon alterations of glass compositions, thermal histories, mechanical stresses, or surface treatments. However, interpretations of such spectral features are still obscured due to the lack of well-established physical principles accurately describing vibrational modes of the non-crystalline glass network. Due to the non-equilibrium nature of the glass network, three-dimensionally connected without any long-range orders, vibrational spectral features of glass cannot be interpreted using the analogy with those of isolated molecular moieties or crystalline counterparts. Here, this feature article explains why such comparisons are outdated and describes the recent advances made from theoretical calculations of vibrational spectral features of amorphous networks or comparisons of computational results with experimental data. For the interpretation of vibrational spectral features of silica and silicate glasses, the following empirical relationships are suggested: (i) the intensity-weighted peak position of the Si-O-Si stretch mode negatively correlates with the weighted average of the Si-O bond length distribution, and (ii) the broad band of the Si-O-Si bending mode negatively correlates with the Si-O-Si bond angle distribution. Selected examples of vibrational spectroscopic imaging of surface defects are discussed to deliberate the implication of these findings in the structure-property relationship of silica and silicate glass materials. Unanswered questions and continuing research challenges are identified.

Research Organization:
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0016584
OSTI ID:
1865531
Journal Information:
Journal of the American Ceramic Society, Vol. 105, Issue 4; ISSN 0002-7820
Publisher:
American Ceramic SocietyCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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