Imaging of crystallization in glasses by energy-selective neutron imaging

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Glasses have a wide range of technological applications. In particular, glasses produced by vitrification technology are used to immobilize hazardous wastes, such as radioactive or chemical products because of the small volume of the resulting waste-form, and the large number of elements that can be incorporated in the glass structure with potentially high durability. Almost any melted substance, if cooled sufficiently fast, can be made as a glass. However, crystallization may occur when slow cooling rates or suitable nucleation centers are found, degrading many of the properties required for the glass. Here, we propose to image crystallized regions within glass specimens by performing energy dispersive neutron radiography experiments with the MCP detector. For contrast, we plan to exploit the differences in the total cross section of glasses and crystals on neutron wavelength.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.54817041
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/54817041
Provenance
Creator Dr Javier Santisteban; Dr Florencia Malamud; Dr Peter Northover; Dr Jon James; Dr Shirley Northover
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2017
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Construction Engineering and Architecture; Engineering; Engineering Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2014-07-31T23:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2014-08-03T22:00:00Z