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Calorimetric studies of crystallization for multi-component glasses of Se–Te–Sn–Ag (STSA) system using model-free and model-fitting non-isothermal methods

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Silver-containing chalcogenide glasses are well-known candidates for technical applications as well as for the fundamental studies. In the present report, we have studied the kinetics of glass/crystal phase transformation in novel synthesized glasses of STSA system. For this, purpose, differential scanning calorimetric technique has been employed at four different heating rates (5, 10, 15, 20 K min−1). This paper explores the thermal analysis of calorimetric data using both advanced iso-conversional methods for the determination of effective activation energy as a function of extent of crystallization and classical non-isothermal methods for the determination of over-all crystallization activation energy. Iso-conversional methods, such as Kissinger–Akahira–Sunose method and Flynn–Wall–Ozawa method, have been used to study the variation of activation energy of crystallization and other kinetic parameters with extent of crystallization. Non-isothermal methods (Kissinger method, Augis–Bennett method, and Matusita–Sakka method) have been used to determine over-all activation energy of crystallization and other significant parameter of thermally activated crystallization. We have also explained the composition dependence of various kinetic parameters.

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One of us, NM is grateful to the Board of Research in Nuclear Sciences (BRNS), Mumbai, India for providing financial support under DAE Research Award for Young Scientists (Scheme No. 2011/20/37P/02/BRNS) and Banaras Hindu University for providing financial support under DST-Purse programme.

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    Ankita Srivastava, Namrata Chandel & Neeraj Mehta

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Srivastava, A., Chandel, N. & Mehta, N. Calorimetric studies of crystallization for multi-component glasses of Se–Te–Sn–Ag (STSA) system using model-free and model-fitting non-isothermal methods. J Therm Anal Calorim 128, 907–914 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-016-6019-0

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