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Title: | Coupled Ionic Diffusion in ulticomponent Silicate Glasses |
Authors: | Okongwu, David A. |
Advisor: | Lu, W-K. Kirkaldy, J.S. |
Department: | Metallurgy |
Publication Date: | Jul-1973 |
Abstract: | <p>A phenomenological scheme for ionic diffusion in multicomponent silicates based on self diffusion data and the Nernst-Planck equation has been formulated which is capable of predicting the concentration profiles of mobile ions in a diffusion couple with or without a fixed silicate anion step discontinuity at the boundary. It is demonstrated that the diffusion potential appearing within this formalism is due entirely to a distribution of self-generated dipoles and equivalently, that the well-known contradiction between the electroneutrality constraint on real charges and the non-zero field predicted within the phenomenological formalism vanishes when it is recognized that the charge to be entered into Poisson's equation is the dipole charge.</p> <p>The reported experimental diffusion profiles in K2O-SrO-SiO2 and Na2O-CaO-SiO2 glass couples have been compared with the predictions of the model and the agreement has been found to be good. Diffusion couples in the K2O-CaO-SiO2 system were investigated by microprobe analysis and the resulting concentration profiles were also found to be in good agreement with predictions. It has been demonstrated that while the quasi-binary (i.e., immobile silicate anions) approximation is satisfactory for the K2O-SrO-SiO2 system at low temperatures, it is unsatisfactory for all other systems considered at low and high temperatures.</p> <p>An extension of the phenomenological scheme to glass-metal diffusion couples with interfacial electrochemical reactions is given in Appendix A.</p> |
Description: | Title: Coupled Ionic Diffusion in Multicomponent Silicate Glasses, Author: David A. Okongwu, Location: Thode |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/19984 |
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