TY - JOUR
T1 - Structural evolution during the gel to glass conversion
AU - Brinker, C. J.
AU - Roth, E. P.
AU - Scherer, G. W.
AU - Tallant, D. R.
N1 - Funding Information:
* This work partially performed at Sandia National Laboratories supported by the US Depart-ment of Energy under contract number DE-AC04-76DP00789. ** A US DOE facility.
PY - 1985/5
Y1 - 1985/5
N2 - We have used differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to measure quantitatively enthalpic changes which accompany gel densification and have related these changes to the evolving gel structure using Raman spectroscopy, gas adsorption, and thermal analysis. We show that the network structure, which results principally from skeletal dehydration (via condensation) during gel densification, is considerably different from the melt-glass structure. A dramatic reduction in viscosity and the formation of metastable MOM bonds as a product of condensation reactions are examples of these differences. Despite the complex manner in which the gel evolves toward a glass, once the gel has been densified and heated above Tg, its structure and properties, e.g. viscosity and distribution of relaxation times, become indistinguishable from those of the conventionally melted glass.
AB - We have used differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to measure quantitatively enthalpic changes which accompany gel densification and have related these changes to the evolving gel structure using Raman spectroscopy, gas adsorption, and thermal analysis. We show that the network structure, which results principally from skeletal dehydration (via condensation) during gel densification, is considerably different from the melt-glass structure. A dramatic reduction in viscosity and the formation of metastable MOM bonds as a product of condensation reactions are examples of these differences. Despite the complex manner in which the gel evolves toward a glass, once the gel has been densified and heated above Tg, its structure and properties, e.g. viscosity and distribution of relaxation times, become indistinguishable from those of the conventionally melted glass.
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U2 - 10.1016/0022-3093(85)90286-8
DO - 10.1016/0022-3093(85)90286-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0021434313
SN - 0022-3093
VL - 71
SP - 171
EP - 185
JO - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
JF - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
IS - 1-3
ER -