Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10155548 | Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids | 2018 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We employed the Classical Nucleation Theory using a characteristic value of the pre-exponential constant and an average (temperature dependent) interfacial energy and derived an expression to estimate the maximum nucleation rates, Imax, as a function of the reduced glass transition temperatures, Tgrâ¯â¡â¯Tg/Tm (Tg is the laboratory glass transition temperature and Tm is the melting point or liquidus temperature). The theoretical predictions were surprisingly good for 51 out of 54 silicate glass-formers tested and describe well the experimental trend that Imax strongly decreases with increasing Tgr. This trend, in turn, explains the well-known fact that only silicate glasses having a relatively low Tgr, Tgrâ¯<â¯0.6, show internal homogeneous nucleation in laboratory time/sample-size scales.
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Authors
Alexander S. Abyzov, Vladimir M. Fokin, Edgar D. Zanotto,