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The Structure and Properties of Cesium Loaded Mo-Fe-Phosphate Glasses
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
  • Jincheng Bai
  • Jen Hsien Hsu
  • Prashanth Sandineni
  • Cheol-Woon Kim, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Richard K. Brow, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

Chemically durable iron phosphate glasses are promising candidates for hosting nuclear wastes containing constituents like Cs2O and MoO3 that have lower solubility in more conventional borosilicate glasses. In this work, two series of Cs-Mo-Fe-phosphate glasses were prepared and characterized. For glasses in Series A (xCs2O·(100-x)·(15MoO3·22.5Fe2O3·62.5P 2 O 5 ), x = 0, 7.5, 15.0, 22.5), increasing Cs2O contents increase the molar volume and decrease the glass transition temperature. Raman spectroscopy reveals that adding Cs2O breaks down linkages between MoO6 octahedra, replacing Mo—O—Mo and Mo=O bonds with Mo-O-Cs+ bonds. Phosphate anion chromatography reveals that adding Cs2O has little effect on the phosphate anion distributions. For glasses in Series B (15Cs 2 O·yMoO3·(28.75-y)F2O3·56.25P 2 O 5 , y = 0, 5.75, 11.50, 17.25, 23.00, 28.75), the glass transition temperature decreases and the aqueous dissolution rates increase when MoO3 replaces Fe2O3. The formation of isolated MoO6 octahedra with Mo-O- Cs+ bonds results in an increase in the average phosphate anion-length in the MoO3-rich glasses. Mössbauer spectroscopy indicates that ferric ions dominate in both series, and that the average Fe-coordination number increases with increasing Cs2O content (series A) and with increasing MoO3 content (series B).

Department(s)
Nuclear Engineering and Radiation Science
Second Department
Materials Science and Engineering
Comments
This work was supported by the US Department of Energy under the contract number of DE-SC0011906.
Keywords and Phrases
  • Cs2O,
  • Iron-phosphate glass,
  • Isolated MoO6 octahedra,
  • Mossbauer spectroscopy,
  • Nuclear waste vitrification
Document Type
Article - Journal
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Citation
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text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Publication Date
4-1-2019
Publication Date
01 Apr 2019
Citation Information
Jincheng Bai, Jen Hsien Hsu, Prashanth Sandineni, Cheol-Woon Kim, et al.. "The Structure and Properties of Cesium Loaded Mo-Fe-Phosphate Glasses" Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids Vol. 510 (2019) p. 121 - 129 ISSN: 0022-3093
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/richard-brow/217/