Preparation of Highly Transparent Silica Glass by SPS Sintering of SBA-15

Abstract:

Silica glass was prepared via the spark plasma sintering (SPS) method by using SBA-15 as the starting material. Five temperatures (1000, 1010, 1020, 1030 and 1040°C) were selected as the final sintering temperature above 600°C. The transparent silica glass was prepared by SPS sintering of mesoporous silica SBA-15 at 1040°C. The impact of temperature structure collapse of SBA-15, the structure and transmittance of the glass were studied using X ray diffraction, SEM, TEM, Infrared analysis, Raman analysis and UV-VIS spectrophotometer. Results show that SBA-15 collapsed completely at 1040°C, the sintered glass had high transmittance of above 90% in visible spectra, and its hardness was 6.96 Gpa, and that the sintered transparent sample was silica glass. The work demonstrated a novel strategy to use SPS to prepare highly transparent silica glass by sintering of SBA-15.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 848)
• Pages: 312-318
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.848.312
• Online since: March 2016
• Authors: Li Wei Shi, Lian Jun Wang, Wan Jiang, Wei Luo
• Keywords: SBA-15, Silica Glass, Spark Plasma Sintering

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