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Title: Borate melt structure: Temperature-dependent B–O bond lengths and coordination numbers from high-energy X-ray diffraction

Abstract

Borate melts containing <20 mol% Na2O have been studied using high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Temperature dependencies of the mean B–O bond lengths are shown to vary strongly with soda content, by comparison to previous measurements on liquid B2O3 and Na2B4O7. Whereas in liquid B2O3 linear thermal expansion of the BØ3 units is observed, with coefficient αBO = 3.7(2) × 10-6 K-1, this expansion is apparently slightly suppressed in melts containing <20 mol% Na2O, and is dramatically reversed at the diborate composition. These effects are interpreted in terms of changes in the mean B–O coordination number, where the reaction BØ4- + BØ3 ⇌ BØ3 + BØ2O- shifts to the right with increasing temperature. The empirical bond-valence relationship is used to convert measured bond lengths, rBO, to coordination numbers, nBO, including a correction for the expected thermal expansion. This method is more accurate and precise than direct determination of nBO from peak areas in the radial distribution functions. Gradients of ΔnBO/ΔT = -3.4(3) × 10-4 K-1 close to the diborate composition, and ΔnBO/ΔT = -0.3(1) × 10-4 K-1 for a 13(3) mol% Na2O melt are observed, in reasonable agreement with Raman spectroscopic observations and thermodynamic modeling, with some quantitative differences. These observationsmore » go toward explaining isothermal viscosity maxima and changes in fragility across the sodium borate system.« less

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  1. Materials Development, Inc., Arlington Heights, IL (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS), X-Ray Science Division
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS), X-Ray Science Division
  3. Materials Development, Inc., Arlington Heights, IL (United States); Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
  4. Materials Development, Inc., Arlington Heights, IL (United States)
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OSTI Identifier:
1480859
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OSTI ID: 1429154
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; SC0007564; SC0015241; AC02‐06CH11357
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Journal Name:
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 101; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7820
Publisher:
American Ceramic Society
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; atomic structure; borates; glassmelting; thermodynamics; X-ray methods

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Alderman, Oliver L. G., Benmore, Chris J., Lin, Alex, Tamalonis, Anthony, and Weber, J. K. Richard. Borate melt structure: Temperature-dependent B–O bond lengths and coordination numbers from high-energy X-ray diffraction. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1111/jace.15529.
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Alderman, Oliver L. G., Benmore, Chris J., Lin, Alex, Tamalonis, Anthony, & Weber, J. K. Richard. Borate melt structure: Temperature-dependent B–O bond lengths and coordination numbers from high-energy X-ray diffraction. United States. doi:10.1111/jace.15529.
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Alderman, Oliver L. G., Benmore, Chris J., Lin, Alex, Tamalonis, Anthony, and Weber, J. K. Richard. Mon . "Borate melt structure: Temperature-dependent B–O bond lengths and coordination numbers from high-energy X-ray diffraction". United States. doi:10.1111/jace.15529. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1480859.
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@article{osti_1480859,
title = {Borate melt structure: Temperature-dependent B–O bond lengths and coordination numbers from high-energy X-ray diffraction},
author = {Alderman, Oliver L. G. and Benmore, Chris J. and Lin, Alex and Tamalonis, Anthony and Weber, J. K. Richard},
abstractNote = {Borate melts containing <20 mol% Na2O have been studied using high-energy synchrotron X-ray diffraction. Temperature dependencies of the mean B–O bond lengths are shown to vary strongly with soda content, by comparison to previous measurements on liquid B2O3 and Na2B4O7. Whereas in liquid B2O3 linear thermal expansion of the BØ3 units is observed, with coefficient αBO = 3.7(2) × 10-6 K-1, this expansion is apparently slightly suppressed in melts containing <20 mol% Na2O, and is dramatically reversed at the diborate composition. These effects are interpreted in terms of changes in the mean B–O coordination number, where the reaction BØ4- + BØ3 ⇌ BØ3 + BØ2O- shifts to the right with increasing temperature. The empirical bond-valence relationship is used to convert measured bond lengths, rBO, to coordination numbers, nBO, including a correction for the expected thermal expansion. This method is more accurate and precise than direct determination of nBO from peak areas in the radial distribution functions. Gradients of ΔnBO/ΔT = -3.4(3) × 10-4 K-1 close to the diborate composition, and ΔnBO/ΔT = -0.3(1) × 10-4 K-1 for a 13(3) mol% Na2O melt are observed, in reasonable agreement with Raman spectroscopic observations and thermodynamic modeling, with some quantitative differences. These observations go toward explaining isothermal viscosity maxima and changes in fragility across the sodium borate system.},
doi = {10.1111/jace.15529},
journal = {Journal of the American Ceramic Society},
number = 8,
volume = 101,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {3}
}
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Table 1 Table 1: Sample compositions and HEXRD acquisition parameters. The cooling rates given for the stepwise cooling runs are average rates and individual measurements were isothermal with standard deviations 1 K ≤ |σT| ≤ 14 K and total uncertainties 6 K ≤ |σTtot| ≤ 18 K. Similar values apply to themore » measurements taken during linear cooling. In the original report25 concerning nominally 33.3 mol% Na2O melts, isothermal measurements of 20s were reported, in fact these were 60s. Furthermore, the compositional uncertainty for the linearly cooled melt is larger than the reported 1 mol% Na2O, as shown in the Table.« less
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