Glass Ceramization as an Alternative Production Route of Forsterite Glass-Ceramics for Possible Multipurpose Uses

Abstract:

Homogenous, transparent and bubble-free glass was produced through the addition of an extra silica as a replacement for its structurally analogous AlPO₄ in an aluminophosphosilicate base glass. FT-IR, DSC, XRD and SEM coupled with EDX, were all used to characterize the obtained glass, and to establish the effect of silica as a substitution for AlPO₄ on the vibrational spectra and crystallization behavior of the obtained glass.Silica was found to lower the wavenumber of the main stretching vibrational band of aluminophosphosilicate glass, thus counterbalancing the increment in the wavenumber of the main stretching band caused by P₂O₅ in the former base glass. The obtained glass crystallized in bulk at relatively low temperatures, and the first phase to crystallize was enstatite. As temperature was increased, both enstatite and forsterite coexisted. At yet higher temperatures, forsterite was the predominantly crystallizing phase with just traces of enstatite.Thus, it is believed that glass ceramization represents a challenging and yet a promising fabrication route with many technological advantages, over other making techniques, such as sol-gel and solid-state or solid solution routes, for production of forsterite-enstatite and forsterite ceramics. The obtained glass-ceramics are possible candidates for advanced applications, utilizing properties of forsterite, such as bioactivity, dielectricity and birefringence, among many others.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 1043)
• Pages: 138-144
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1043.138
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Taufik Aboud*
• Keywords: Bioceramic, Enstatite, Forsterite, Glass Ceramization, Glass-Ceramics

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