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High-energy X-ray diffraction is a powerful tool providing access to structure in disorder materials. In the present study, a set of twelve Al\(_{2}\)O\(_{3}\) \(\cdot \) SiO\(_{2}\) \(\cdot \) CaO \(\cdot \) Na\(_{2}\)O glasses with different Na\(_{2}\)O contents and SiO\(_{2}\)/Al\(_{2}\)O\(_{3}\) ratios have been measured at the ID11 Material Science beamline (ESRF, Grenoble) at 78 keV. Empirical potential structure refinement, radial distribution function and first sharp diffraction peak analyses have been applied to extract a comprehensive picture of their atomic networks. The resulting structural findings have been correlated with the important technological property of the glass transition temperature, obtained from differential scanning calorimetry measurements.
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Authors want to thank Prosimet Spa laboratory for their help in sample preparation and Jonathan Wright (ESRF) for helps and suggestions at the ID11 Material Science beamline
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Bernasconi, A., Dapiaggi, M., Bowron, D. et al. Aluminosilicate-based glasses structural investigation by high-energy X-ray diffraction. J Mater Sci 51, 8845–8860 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-016-0132-0
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