Deep inelastic scattering probes the amorphous structure of glasses

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Borosilicate glasses are suitable materials for the immobilization of high-level nuclear waste. One of the main questions is the structural changes of B-O network. We perform mass-resolved neutron spectroscopy on the SiO2-B2O3-Na2O system and additionally on the SiO2-Na2O sample serving as a standard for comparison of the NCS response. By measuring the nuclear momentum distributions of O and B nuclei in ternary series of experiments with increasing concentration of B2O3 one can trace the changes to gM(v) and characterize the local effective potentials felt by B, O nuclei due to the increasing disordered character of the lattice and changing coordination of B atoms. The proposed experiment will extend the benchmarking capabilities of the NCS technique to the realm of disordered systems by allowing testing structural predictions based on RMC modelling.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.79108616
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/79108616
Provenance
Creator Dr Giovanni Romanelli; Dr Margit Fabian
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2019
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 Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2016-04-24T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2016-04-30T08:00:00Z