From nanoscale heterogeneities to nanolites: cation clustering in glasses

Laurent Cormier; Laurence Galoisy; Gérald Lelong; Georges Calas

doi:10.5802/crphys.150

From nanoscale heterogeneities to nanolites: cation clustering in glasses

Laurent Cormier ¹ ; Laurence Galoisy ¹ ; Gérald Lelong ¹ ; Georges Calas ¹

¹ Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC) (Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR 7590, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, IRD UMR 206), 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France

Comptes Rendus. Physique, From everyday glass to disordered solids, Volume 24 (2023) no. S1, pp. 199-214.

Abstract
Résumé

The structural behavior of cations in multicomponent oxide glasses cannot be described within a random network model, due to the presence of cation clusters that provide original properties. These clustering processes are even observed for cations that may occur at a percent level concentration, which makes it all the more spectacular. In particular, the structural and chemical characteristics of Zr $^{4 +}$ - and Fe $^{2 +}$ /Fe $^{3 +}$ -based clusters in (alumino)silicate glasses illustrate the link between the short-range order around cations and the formation of nanoscale heterogeneities. The structural characteristics of these Zr- or Fe-rich clusters are similar, as both are based on edge-sharing cation polyhedra. Cations may also occur in a network-forming position. In that case, cation sites are corner-linked with the silicate network. In such positioning, Pauling rules and local charge balance requirements will favor cations be diluted at a nanoscale. The topological constraints of these two types of local structure are stronger for the former than for the latter, as disorder effects are smaller for edge-sharing than for corner-sharing polyhedra. This may explain crystal nucleation during the growth of such ordered heterogeneities, giving rise to original properties that are illustrated in a large diversity of glassy materials encompassing high-tech glass-ceramics and volcanic glasses.

Le comportement structural des cations dans les verres d’oxydes multicomposants ne peut pas être décrit dans un modèle de réseau aléatoire, en raison de la présence d’agrégats de cations à l’origine de propriétés originales. Ces processus de regroupement sont même observés pour les cations en faible concentration, ce qui le rend d’autant plus spectaculaire. En particulier, les caractéristiques structurales et chimiques des agrégats à base de Zr $^{4 +}$ - et de Fe $^{2 +}$ /Fe $^{3 +}$ dans des verres (alumino)silicates illustrent le lien entre l’ordre à courte portée autour des cations et la formation dhétérogénéités nanométriques. Les caractéristiques structurales de ces amas riches en Zr ou en Fe sont similaires, car les deux sont basées sur des polyèdres cationiques partageant des arêtes. Les cations peuvent également se trouver en position de formateur de réseau. Dans ce cas, les sites cationiques sont reliés au réseau silicaté. Dans un tel positionnement, les règles de Pauling et les exigences locales d’équilibrage des charges favoriseront la dilution des cations à l’échelle nanométrique. Les contraintes topologiques de ces deux types de structure locale sont plus fortes pour le premier que pour le second, car les effets de désordre sont plus faibles pour le partage des polyèdres par arêtes que pour le partage par sommets. Cela peut expliquer la nucléation du cristal pendant la croissance de ces hétérogénéités ordonnées, donnant lieu à des propriétés originales qui sont illustrées dans une grande diversité de matériaux vitreux englobant les vitrocéramiques de haute technologie et les verres volcaniques.

Received: 2022-11-07
Revised: 2023-01-05
Accepted: 2023-02-23
Online First: 2023-04-20
Published online: 2024-04-26

DOI: 10.5802/crphys.150

Keywords: Glass, Structure, Heterogeneities, Nucleation, Spectrocopy
Mots-clés : Verre, Structure, Hétérogénéités, Nucléation, Spectroscopie

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Laurent Cormier ¹; Laurence Galoisy ¹; Gérald Lelong ¹; Georges Calas ¹

¹ Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie (IMPMC) (Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR 7590, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, IRD UMR 206), 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France

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Laurent Cormier; Laurence Galoisy; Gérald Lelong; Georges Calas. From nanoscale heterogeneities to nanolites: cation clustering in glasses. Comptes Rendus. Physique, From everyday glass to disordered solids, Volume 24 (2023) no. S1, pp. 199-214. doi : 10.5802/crphys.150. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/physique/articles/10.5802/crphys.150/

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