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Crystallization kinetics of gehlenite glass microspheres

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The glass of gehlenite composition was prepared by flame synthesis in the form of microspheres. The powder precursor was synthesised by standard solid-state reaction method using SiO2, Al2O3 and CaCO3. The prepared glasses were characterized from the point of view of surface morphology, phase composition and thermal properties by optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), respectively. The prepared samples contained only completely re-melted spherical particles. SEM did not reveal any features indicating the presence of crystalline phases. However, traces of crystalline gehlenite were detected by XRD. The high-temperature XRD measurements (HT XRD) were carried out to identify the phase evolution during glass crystallization. In the studied temperature range, gehlenite phase was identified as the main crystalline phase. Non-isothermal DSC analysis of prepared glass microspheres was carried out from room temperature up to 1200 °C at five different heating rates: 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 °C/min to determine the thermal properties of microspheres. In order to study the crystallization kinetics, the DSC curves were transformed into dependence of fractional extent of crystallization (α) on temperature. The Johnson–Mehl–Avrami–Kolmogorov model was found to be suitable for description of crystallization kinetics. Frequency factor A = 5.56 × 1029 ± 1.73 × 1029 min−1, apparent activation energy Eapp = 722 ± 3 kJ mol−1 and the Avrami coefficient m = 2 were determined. In the studied system, the linear temperature dependence of nucleation rate, diffusion controlled crystal growth interface and a 2D crystal growth were confirmed.

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This paper is a part of dissemination activities of project FunGlass. This project has received funding from the European Union´s Horizon 2020, research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 739566. The financial support of this work by the projects VEGA 1/0527/18, APVV-17-0049, VEGA 2/0026/17, VEGA 2/0164/17 is gratefully acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Magnetometry, Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská cesta 9, 842 19, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

    Melinda Majerová

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    Anna Prnová, Peter Švančárek, Jana Valúchová & Dušan Galusek

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    Anna Prnová, Alfonz Plško, Peter Švančárek, Jana Valúchová, Róbert Klement & Dušan Galusek

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Majerová, M., Prnová, A., Plško, A. et al. Crystallization kinetics of gehlenite glass microspheres. J Therm Anal Calorim 142, 1003–1010 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-020-09305-7

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