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Visco-Elastic Relaxations in Alkali Borates and AlkaliSilicates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 February 2011
Abstract
The Brillouin light scattering technique was used to study short timerelaxations in glass forming oxide melts. The line shape analysis ofBrillouin spectra yields a complex mechanical Modulus. The temperaturedependence of this modulus provides insight into the structuraldisintegration above the glass transition, as well as the thermallyactivated mechanisms which facilitate the momentum transport in the processof viscous dissipation.
A series of binary and ternary alkali borates and alkali silicates have beeninvestigated. The results show fundamental differences in the way alkalications affect the network structure in borates as compared to silicates.While these cations move relatively freely within the rigid silicatenetwork, their motions are strongly coupled to the network relaxation inborates. The activation energies for cation motion are in good agreementwith those found by other methods.
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