Effects of Y2O3 on crystallization kinetics of SiO2-Al2O3-CaO-CaF2 oxy-fluoride glass-ceramic system

• Main Authors: M. Soleymani Zarabad, M. Rezvani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2017-01-01
• Series: Results in Physics
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211379717303868

Differential thermal analysis (DTA) patterns of SiO2-Al2O3-CaO-CaF2 oxy-fluoride glass system with adding different amounts of Y2O3 from 0.5 (wt%) to 1.5 (wt%) have been studied under isochronal circumstances. It is concluded that, the crystallization of the glasses is a process controlled by Avrami nucleation, three dimensional diffusion controlled growth and anisotropic growth impingement mode. Afterwards, the effective activation energy Qp, growth exponent, nucleation activation energy QN, and growth activation energy QG, have been determined and were in the range of 283–321 kJ mol−1, 2.05–2.25, 190–249 kJ mol−1 and 325–349 kJ mol−1, respectively. Qp, QN, QG and np are increased with increase of Y2O3 amount, which is related to the network forming role of Y2O3 in these systems. Keywords: Oxy-fluoride glass-ceramics, Activation energy, Crystallization mechanism, Growth exponent