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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 114, Issue 1, Pages 459-467Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.1328417
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The structure of pure TeO2 and alkali tellurite glasses has been examined by neutron diffraction and ab initio molecular orbital methods. The experimental radial distribution functions along with the calculated results have demonstrated that the basic structural units in tellurite glasses change from highly strained TeO4 trigonal bipyramids to more regular TeO3 trigonal pyramids with increasing alkali content. It has also been shown that the TeO3 trigonal pyramids do not exist in the form of isolated units in the glass network but interact with each other to form intertrigonal Te . . .O linkages. The present results suggest that nonbridging oxygen (NBO) atoms in tellurite glasses do not exist in their pure form; that is, all the NBO atoms in TeO3 trigonal bipyramids will interact with the first- and/or second-neighbor Te atoms, resulting in the three-dimensional continuous random network even in tellurite glasses with over 30 mol % of alkali oxides. (C) 2001 American Institute of Physics.
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