Sw. Martin et al., SI-29 MAS NMR-STUDY OF THE SHORT-RANGE ORDER IN SODIUM BOROSILICATE GLASSES, Physics and Chemistry of Glasses, 36(2), 1995, pp. 82-88
Sodium borosilicate glasses have been prepared with the general compos
ition of RNa(2)O.B2O3.KSiO2 where R represents the ratio of sodium oxi
de to boron oxide and K is the ratio of silicon dioxide to boron oxide
. The R parameter varied from 0 to 8.0 in the families K = 0.5, 1.0, 2
.0, 4.0 and 6.0. Si-29 MAS NMR was performed on these samples in order
to determine the short range order (SRO) about the silicon atoms The
average chemical shifts of the absorption spectra were tested against
various models for the sharing of added sodium oxide between the silic
ate and berate glass networks. These models all define an R value, R(o
), below which the sodium oxide is wholly associated with the berate n
etwork and above which the sodium oxide is shared equally between the
silicate and berate groups. As was observed previously in the lithium
and potassium borosilicate glasses, the model with R(o)=O provides a b
etter description of the results than other published models yet fails
to agree with B-11 NMR studies of these glasses. However a new model
is proposed, in which an optimised, non-zero (but small) R(o) varies w
ith K and is shown to provide an extremely good fit to the experimenta
l data and promises to be reconcilable with the B-11 NMR data. CO2 ret
ention from the Na2CO3 starting material had no appreciable affect on
the Si-29 NMR results. This behaviour agrees with that of the lithium
borosilicate glasses but is in contrast with that of the potassium bor
osilicate glasses.