TY - GEN A1 - Reinsch, Stefan T1 - Glass transition and viscosity of hydrous soda-lime-borate glasses N2 - Boron oxide glasses usually show low glass transition temperature Tg due to the three-fold oxygen coordination of boron. Adding of alkali and alkaline earth oxides to the glass composition will not decrease but increase Tg due to a change in boron coordination from trigonal to tetrahedral, known as the boron anomaly. Only for higher fractions of alkali oxides, non-bridging oxygens (NBO) are progressively formed in competition with tetrahedrally coordinated boron, which leads to a decrease in viscosity. ln contrast to this well-known behavior of alkali oxides (R2O), there is little known about adding H2O to borate glasses. The present work therefore aims in shedding light on the rheological properties of hydrous soda lime borate glasses with particular focus on the role of water. For doing so, we determined Tg as a function of Na2O and H2O content using differential thermal analysis (DTA) backed up by micropenetration viscosity measurements. Results show that water decreases Tg for all glasses and water concentrations under study (< 8 wt.% total water). Obviously, water mostly causes the formation of NBO having no significant influence on boron coordination as seen for alkaline. T2 - Crystallization 2015 CY - Shanghai, China DA - 07.04.2016 KW - Borate glasses KW - Thermal analyses KW - Viscosity KW - Water-bearing glasses PY - 2016 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38318 AN - OPUS4-38318 AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany