The glass-forming ability explained from local structural differences by NMR between glasses and crystals in alkali metaphosphates

[EN] The glass forming ability of inorganic substances has traditionally been evaluated in kinetic terms related to the rate of spontaneous crystallization of their melts, which is related to viscosity from the macroscopic point of view. However, differences or similarities between the local structu...

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Autores: Muñoz, Francisco, Sánchez Muñoz, Luis
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/224215
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/224215
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Glass Formation
Phosphate Glasses
Crystallization
NMR
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Sumario:[EN] The glass forming ability of inorganic substances has traditionally been evaluated in kinetic terms related to the rate of spontaneous crystallization of their melts, which is related to viscosity from the macroscopic point of view. However, differences or similarities between the local structures of glasses and crystals of the same composition could have an additional influence on the kinetic ability to form a stable glass or a crystal from a melt. In this work, the local structure of alkali metaphosphate glasses and crystals has been analyzed by means of P MAS-NMR to demonstrate that the ability to form a glass is directly related to the differences between the atomic organization in the glassy states and the structure of the stable crystals at lower temperatures. This implies that chemical compositions having a similar atomic order in their glass and crystal structures will not easily develop the disordered long-range structure of glass.