TY - JOUR A1 - Blaeß, Carsten A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Boccaccini, A. R. T1 - Sintering and crystallization kinetics of bioactive glass 13-93 N2 - This study investigates the sintering and crystallization behavior and kinetic of the bioactive glass (BG) 13–93 with nominal composition (in mol%): 54.6 SiO2 - 1.7 P2O3 - 22.1 CaO - 6.0 Na2O - 7.9 K2O - 7.7 MgO. Sintering and crystallization were investigated non-isothermally for various particle size fractions smaller than 315 μm as well as for bulk samples. Densification was not hindered by the presence of crystalline phases across all particle size fractions. Afterwards, wollastonite was found as the dominant crystal phase at higher temperature which resorb primary surface precipitation-like quartz crystallites. The growth direction shifts into volume when the sample surface is nearly covered. The crystal growth rate of wollastonite was calculated from the crystalline surface layer thickness measured during heating. The findings of this study are relevant for the high temperature processing of BG 13–93. KW - Bioactive glass KW - Sintering KW - Crystallization PY - 2024 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2023.122790 SN - 0022-3093 VL - 627 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - Elsevier AN - OPUS4-59337 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fest, Sarah Ute A1 - Reinsch, Stefan A1 - Müller, Ralf T1 - Milling, sintering and crystallization of 11BaO-25CaO-64SiO2 glass powder N2 - The crystallization of 11BaO-25CaO-64SiO2 mol% glass powders and related effects of glass powder milling have been studied by X-ray diffraction (XRD), light and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and differential thermal analysis (DTA). Glass powders were made by ZrO2 crushing with subsequent sieving or sedimentation or alternatively made by milling with agate, corundum and tungsten carbide. Although surface crystallization was detectable during late sintering, all powders fully sintered. Wollastonite was found as primary crystal phase followed by cristobalite and sanbornite precipitation. The latter crystallization steps caused a second DTA-peak for fine powders. DTA-peak temperatures shifted to lower temperature with decreasing particle size in any case. No significant effects of milling materials on DTA-peak temperatures were evident. As an exception, however, milling in agate caused strongly decreased temperatures of the second DTA-peak. This observation can be explained by the progressive mechanical damaging, which results from the required prolonged milling time with agate due to its small materials density, and the fact that diamond made scratches did promote surface crystallization of cristobalite. The present study thus shows that even for glass powders with excellent sinterability, milling can affect microstructure evolution. KW - Glass KW - Crystallization KW - Powder preparation KW - SOFC PY - 2014 UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijag.12080/full DO - https://doi.org/10.1111/ijag.12080 SN - 2041-1286 SN - 2041-1294 VL - 5 IS - 3 SP - 236 EP - 247 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken, NJ [u.a.] AN - OPUS4-30807 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmelzer, J.W.P. A1 - Potapov, O. V. A1 - Fokin, V. M. A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Reinsch, Stefan T1 - The effect of elastic stress and relaxation on crystal nucleation in lithium disilicate glass N2 - In the framework of a general theoretical approach recently developed, the effect of elastic stresses on the rate of nucleation of crystallites of critical sizes in the process of crystallization of lithium disilicate glasses is studied. Hereby both the evolution of elastic stresses – due to changes in the specific volume of the crystallizing system (i.e., differences in the densities of the melt and the crystal) – and their relaxation – connected with viscous flow – are taken into consideration. If the classical theory of nucleation is employed for the determination of the nucleation rates (modified by taking into account elastic stresses), elastic stresses may lead, for the system under consideration, to a decrease of the nucleation rate by up to two orders of magnitude. As shown, the theory allows an at least qualitatively correct incorporation of the effect of elastic stresses and stress relaxation into the description of nucleation phenomena in glass-forming melts. PY - 2004 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2003.10.002 SN - 0022-3093 VL - 333 IS - 2 SP - 150 EP - 160 PB - North-Holland Publ. Co. CY - Amsterdam AN - OPUS4-6236 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Marzok, Ulrich A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Schadrack, Reinhard A1 - Krauhausen, M. A1 - Burgstedt, F. A1 - Brode, W. A1 - Reetz, R. T1 - Hochtemperatur-Laserprofilometrie an keramischen Bauteilen N2 - Hochleistungssinterwerkstoffe spielen eine wachsende Rolle in derzeitigen Schlüsseltechnologien wie der Mikrosystem-, Informations-, Kommunikations- und Medizintechnik. Dabei steigen die Anforderungen an die präzise Steuerung der Sinterung. Besonders für komplexe, gradierte oder heterogen zusammengesetzte Formkörper wie zum Beispiel keramische LTCC-Multilayer für die Mikrosystemtechnik hat die exakte Beherrschung dieses Prozessschrittes wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Maßhaltigkeit, mechanische Integrität und Zuverlässigkeit der gesinterten Bauteile. Bedingt durch die Heterogenität der mehrlagigen und mit Leit- und anderen Funktionspasten bedruckten Sinterkörper hinsichtlich ihrer sinterphysikalischen oder thermischen Eigenschaften können bleibende oder temporäre Verwerfungen beim Schrumpfungsprozess auftreten, wobei letztere unter Umständen Ursache latenter Fehler im späteren Bauteil sind. PY - 2013 SN - 0173-9913 SN - 0196-6219 VL - 90 IS - 3 SP - D19 EP - D24 PB - Göller CY - Baden-Baden AN - OPUS4-28013 LA - deu AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Busch, R. A1 - Tielemann, Christopher A1 - Reinsch, Stefan A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Patzig, C. A1 - Krause, M. A1 - Höche, T. T1 - Sample preparation for analytical scanning electron microscopy using initial notch sectioning N2 - A novel method for broad ion beam based sample sectioning using the concept of initial notches is presented. An adapted sample geometry is utilized in order to create terraces with a well-define d step in erosion depth from the surface. The method consists of milling a notch into the surface, followed by glancing-angle ion beam erosion, which leads to preferential erosion at the notch due to increased local surface elevation. The process of terrace formation can be utilized in sample preparation for analytical scanning electron microscopy in order to get efficient access to the depth-dependent microstructure of a material. It is demonstrated that the method can be applied to both conducting and non-conducting specimens. Furthermore, experimental parameters influencing the preparation success are determined. Finally, as a proof-of-concept, an electron backscatter diffraction study on a surface crystallized diopside glass ceramic is performed, where the method is used to analyze orientation dependent crystal growth phenomena occurring during growth of surface crystals into the bulk. KW - 3D etching KW - Ion beam erosion Sectioning KW - EBSD KW - Sample preparation KW - Analytical scanning electron microscopy KW - SEM KW - Glass Ceramic KW - Glass KW - Diopsid PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micron.2021.103090 SN - 0968-4328 VL - 150 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-53075 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Waurischk, Tina A1 - Behrens, H. A1 - Deubener, J. T1 - Crack growth in borate and silicate glasses: Stress-corrosion susceptibility and hydrolytic resistance N2 - A double cantilever beam technique in air equipped with ultrasound modulation was used to measure the crack velocity v in borate and silicate glasses. In all glasses v and the stress intensity KI followed the empirical correlation v ~ KIn. Indicated by its smallest KI at v = 1 μm s − 1, KI* = 0.27 MPa m0.5, the silicoborate glass containing 70 mol% B2O3 was found most susceptible to stress-corrosion enhanced crack growth. Contrarily, the sodium calcium magnesium silicate glass appeared least susceptible with KI* = 0.57 MPa m0.5. No clear correlation is evident between KI*, reflecting the stress-corrosion susceptibility, and the hydrolytic resistance for all glasses under study, but values of n obtained from the present study and taken from previous literature for 35 glasses tend to decrease with increasing network modifier ion fraction. Energy dissipation during stress-corrosion enhanced crack propagation is assumed to cause this trend. KW - DCB KW - Alkali and alkaline earth silicate and borate glass KW - Crack growth in air KW - Stress-corrosion KW - Stress intensity PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2020.120414 VL - 551 SP - 120414 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-51393 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wisniewski, W. A1 - Thieme, C. A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Reinsch, Stefan A1 - Groß-Barsnick, S.-M. A1 - Rüssel, C. T1 - Oriented surface nucleation and crystal growth in a 18BaO·22CaO·60SiO2 mol% glass used for SOFC seals N2 - A glass of the composition 37BaO·16CaO·47SiO2 wt% produced on an industrial scale is crystallized at 970 °C for times ranging from 15 min to 2 h. The crystallization at the immediate surface as well as the crystal growth into the bulk are analyzed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) including energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDXS) and electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) as well as X-ray diffraction in the Θ–2Θ setup (XRD). The immediate surface shows the oriented nucleation of walstromite as well as the formation of wollastonite and an unknown phase of the composition BaCaSi3O8. All three phases also grow into the bulk where walstromite ultimately dominates the kinetic selection and grows throughout the bulk due to a lack of bulk nucleation. Walstromite shows systematic orientation changes as well as twinning during growth. A critical analysis of the XRD-patterns acquired from various crystallized samples indicates that their evaluation is problematic and that phases detected by XRD in this system should be verified by another method such as EDXS. KW - Glass KW - Surface nucleation KW - Orientation KW - EBSD PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1039/c7ce02008b VL - 20 IS - 6 SP - 787 EP - 795 PB - Royal Society of Chemistry AN - OPUS4-44405 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blaeß, Carsten A1 - Müller, Ralf T1 - Master curve for viscous crack healing N2 - A novel method to generalize kinetic data of viscous crack healing in glasses is proposed. The method assumes that crack healing progress is proportional to the healing time, t, and indirect proportional to viscosity, n. This way, crack length and crack width data, normalized to the initial crack length and plotted versus t/n, allow to compare crack healing progress for different cracks and healing temperatures in a master curve. Crack healing experiments conducted in this study demonstrate the applicability of this method for a commercial microscope slide glass. KW - Crack healing KW - Glass KW - Master curve KW - Vickers indentation PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matlet.2017.12.082 SN - 0167-577X SN - 1873-4979 VL - 216 SP - 110 EP - 112 PB - Elsevier AN - OPUS4-44300 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Behrens, H. A1 - Bauer, U. A1 - Reinsch, Stefan A1 - Kiefer, P. A1 - Müller, Ralf A1 - Deubener, J. T1 - Structural relaxation mechanisms in hydrous sodium borosilicate glasses N2 - Borosilicate glasses (16Na2O–10B2O3–74SiO2, NBS) with water contents up to 22 mol% H2O were prepared to study the effect of water on structural relaxation using DTA, viscometry and internal friction measurements. The results show that the glass transition temperature Tg of DTA and the isokom temperature T12, of viscometry are in excellent agreement, confirming the equivalence of enthalpy and viscous relaxation for NBS glass. Combining Tg data with water speciation data demonstrates that OH groups are mainly responsible for the decrease of Tg with increasing hydration, while molecular water plays only a minor role. Internal friction spectra at 7.125 Hz confirm the decisive influence of water on mechanical relaxation. The temperature range of α-relaxation (glass transition) strongly decreases while two β-relaxation peaks (sub-Tg) progressively appear with increasing water content. A high temperature β-relaxation peak, attributed to the presence of OH groups, shifts from 670 to 450 K as total water content increases from 0.01 to 5 wt%. A low temperature β-relaxation peak, attributed to molecular water, appears at 380 K and 330 K in glasses containing 3 and 5 wt% H2O, respectively. These findings suggest that relaxation mechanism of different hydrous species at low temperature may contribute to fatigue of stressed glasses. KW - Borosilicate glass KW - Water KW - Relaxation KW - Internal friction KW - Glass transition PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2018.05.025 VL - 497 SP - 30 EP - 39 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-45608 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kotaka, M. A1 - Honma, T. A1 - Komatsu, T. A1 - Shinozaki, K. A1 - Affatigato, M. A1 - Müller, Ralf T1 - Control of self-powdering phenomenon in ferroelastic β′-Gd2(MoO4)3 crystallization in boro-tellurite glasses N2 - Glasses with compositions of 21Gd2O3-63MoO3-(16-x)B2O3-xTeO2 (mol%) (x= 0, 2, 4, 8) were prepared using a conventional melt quenching technique, and the crystallization behavior of ferroelastic β′-Gd2 MoO4)3 Crystals was examined to clarify the mechanism of self-powdering phenomenon and to design bulk crystallized glasses. It was found that the self-powdering phenomenon appeared significantly during the crystallization at temperatures near the crystallization peak temperature, but the phenomenon is suppressed in the crystallization at temperatures much higher than the glass transition temperature. It was also found that the substitution of TeO2 for B2O3 in the base glasses suppresses the self-powdering phenomenon and consequently bulk crystallized glasses were obtained in the glass with x=8 mol%. The densities at room temperature of the base glasses are d =4.755–4.906 g/cm3, being much higher than the value of d=4.555 g/cm3 for β′-Gd2(MoO4)3 crystal. It is proposed that the stresses in the inside of crystals induced by large density differences (i.e., large molar volume differences) between the glassy phase and crystals might be relaxed effectively in the glasses containing TeO2 with weak TeeO bonds and fragile character. KW - Glass crystallization stress PY - 2018 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2017.12.006 SN - 0022-3093 SN - 1873-4812 VL - 501 SP - 85 EP - 92 PB - Elsevier B.V. AN - OPUS4-46472 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -