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Water has a strong impact on the viscosity and the transition temperature of oxide glasses. It acts as a fluxing agent, reducing viscosity particularly in the glass transition range, and by that flattening the viscosity-temperature curve and decreasing the fragility of hydrous glass melts. This general behavior is found for silicate and borate as well as in borosilicate compositions. However, there is still a lack of data with respect to hydrous phosphate glasses. Here, we study the influence of structural water on the viscosity of Li2O-MgO-(Al2O3-)P2O5 glasses. The glasses were synthesized in an internally heated pressure vessel (IHPV) at a pressure of 0.5 GPa. The selected pressure allows for the synthesis of glass specimens with water contents of several wt.%. The viscosity measurements were carried out in the glass transition range, i.e. log η ≈ 10-13 (η in Pa s), using a sphere penetration viscometer. The measured data agree with glass transition temperatures measured by differential thermo analysis. First results further suggest that the fragility of the analyzed phosphates decreases with increasing water content.
Water plays an important role for the depolymerization of silicate glasses which becomes noticeable by a distinct decrease of glass transformation temperature, Tg. Thus, it has a considerable influence on aging and fatigue as well as on sub-critical crack growth in glasses. In this connection also sub-Tg relaxation processes play a major role, but they are poorly investigated in glasses with high contents of structural bonded water. Therefore, soda-lime-silicate and sodium-borosilicate glasses with water contents up to 5 wt.% H2O were investigated by differential thermal analysis and sphere penetration viscometry, as well as internal friction measurements. The latter was applied to study network related relaxation mechanisms (α-relaxation) in the range of glass transition, as well as faster relaxation modes occurring at lower temperatures (β-, γ- relaxation). Total water content and concentrations of H2O molecules (CH2O) and OH groups (COH) in the glasses were determined by infrared spectroscopy.
For low water contents two sub-Tg internal friction peaks were observed and assigned to the low-temperature motion of alkali ions (γ-relaxation) and cooperative movements of dissimilar mobile species under participation of OH at higher temperature (βOH relaxation).
For large water contents, where significant amounts of molecular water are evident, a low temperature shoulder appears on the β-relaxation peak. This emerging relaxation mode (βH2O relaxation) was assigned to the motions of H2O molecules.
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.