Low-temperature nucleation anomaly in silicate glasses shown to be artifact in a 5BaO·8SiO2 glass

The breakdown of classical nucleation theory at low temperatures for silicate glasses has been a puzzle for decades. Here, Xia et al. show with a long-term experiment for the specific case of a barium-silicate glass that this anomaly is in fact an artifact arising from insufficient heating time.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Xinsheng Xia, D. C. Van Hoesen, Matthew E. McKenzie, Randall E. Youngman, K. F. Kelton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22161-9