Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2011-04-11
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
5 pages; XXIst International Congress on Glass (ICG 2007), Strasbourg : France (2007)
Scientific paper
This work concerns glasses belonging to SiO2-Al2O3-CaO-ZrO2-TiO2-Nd2O3 system that lead to zirconolite crystallization in their bulk after nucleation + crystal growth thermal treatments and that could find application as nuclear waste form. The understanding of crystallization processes in glasses implied to investigate their structure. The environment around Ti, Zr (nucleating agents) and Nd was characterized for various Nd2O3 loadings. Electron spin resonance study of the small amount of Ti3+ occurring in glasses enabled to identify two types of sites for titanium. EXAFS showed that Zr occupied a quite well defined 6-7-fold site coordinated by oxygen at 2.20 {\AA}, with second neighbors that could correspond to Ca/Ti and Zr around 3.5 {\AA}. This short range order presents some similarities with zirconolite, which could predispose glass to zirconolite nucleation. Nd environment was probed by optical spectroscopies, ESR and EXAFS. Results showed that the environment around Nd was very constrained by the glassy network and significantly differed from the one in zirconolite. Nd occupied a highly distorted 8-9-fold coordinated site in glass with oxygen atoms at 2.53 {\AA}. No second neighbors were clearly identified by EXAFS around Nd, but the study of Nd optical fluorescence decays suggested a strong interaction between Nd ions.
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