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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
Volume 851, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.jallcom.2020.156891
Keywords
Glass-ceramic; ZnAl2O4; Nanocrystal; Ion-exchange; Glass structure
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- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFB0303700]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province [2018CFA005]
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The study investigated the effects of ZnAl2O4 nanocrystals on ion-exchange properties of glass-ceramics, revealing that ZnAl2O4 NCs precipitation improved hardness and ion diffusion, indicating promising applications of glass-ceramics in the field of optoelectronic devices.
ZnAl2O4 nanocrystals (NCs) embedded transparent glass-ceramics containing relatively large amount of alkali oxide were prepared and effects of the crystallization on ion-exchange properties of glass-ceramics were investigated. Precipitation of ZnAl2O4 NCs not only improves the Vickers hardness of the glass-ceramics, but also reduces the content of zinc and aluminum with concomitant increase in the content of sodium in the residual glassy phase. These changes in the residual glassy phase decrease the activation energy of K-Na ion-exchange and enhance the diffusion coefficient of potassium, resulting in the large ion-exchange depth and significantly improved Vickers hardness of the ion-exchanged glass-ceramics. These results show that glass-ceramics containing non-alkali nanocrystals have promising applications in fields of covers for optoelectronic devices. (C) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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