Elastic properties and radiation shielding ability of ZnO-P2O5/B2O3 glass system

This paper focuses on the elastic properties and radiation shielding ability of ZnO-P2O5/B2O3 glass system containing six samples named as ZBP1, ZBP2, ZBP3, ZBP4, ZBP5, and ZBP6. For ZBP1, ZBP2, ZBP3, and ZBP4 samples, we investigated the influence of ZnO/P2O5 substitution (with absence of B2O3), while the effect of P2O5/B2O3 substitution was studied and discussed for ZBP5, and ZBP6 samples. The findings indicate that the Young ' s modulus (E-th) as well as Bulk modulus (K-th) and Shear modulus (S-th) increased under both the ZnO/P2O5 substitution and the P2O5/B2O3 substitution. The values of gamma constant (Gamma) rise with growing energy levels and the highest Gamma was observed around 10 MeV and they were of 111,33, 111,83,116,60,119,69,119,86,120,57 R.m(2)/Ci.h for the investigated glasses of ZBP1- ZBP2- ZBP3- ZBP4- ZBP5 and ZBP6, respectively. The stopping power (SP) for electron was around 3.30 MeV cm(2)/g at the energy of 0.1 MeV for all of the involved glasses. The maximum cross section for fast neutron was observed for ZBP6 with the value of 0.11432 cm(-1). The ZBP6 sample has the best properties among the other investigated samples for shielding applications.

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This study investigated the elastic properties and radiation shielding ability of ZnO-P2O5/B2O3 glass system with different ZnO/P2O5 and P2O5/B2O3 substitutions. The findings showed that ZBP6 sample exhibited the best performance for shielding applications among all the investigated samples.