STRUCTURAL CHANGES INDUCED BY ACTINIDES INCORPORATION IN SODA-PHOSPHATE GLASSES

Authors

  • S. SIMON Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: viosimon@phys.ubbcluj.ro
  • I. ARDELEAN Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: viosimon@phys.ubbcluj.ro https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8082-6600
  • V. SIMON Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: viosimon@phys.ubbcluj.ro

Keywords:

phosphate glasses; self-irradiation; structure.

Abstract

Soda-phosphate glasses incorporating uranium and thorium were investigated with respect to structural effect of UO3 and ThO2 content added to P2O5-Na2O glass matrix, as well as to the structural effect of the self-irradiation of the actinide containing glass samples. XRD analysis proves the amorphous state of the as-prepared samples up to 20 mol %. FTIR results support the depolymerisation of the phosphate glass network by progressive increase of the amount of actinide oxide incorporated in the host glass. The self-irradiation determines the occurrence of structural defects evidenced by EPR analysis.

Author Biographies

S. SIMON, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: viosimon@phys.ubbcluj.ro

Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics & Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Bio-Nano Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: viosimon@phys.ubbcluj.ro

I. ARDELEAN, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: viosimon@phys.ubbcluj.ro

Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics & Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Bio-Nano Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: viosimon@phys.ubbcluj.ro

V. SIMON, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: viosimon@phys.ubbcluj.ro

Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics & Interdisciplinary Research Institute on Bio-Nano Sciences, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Corresponding author: viosimon@phys.ubbcluj.ro

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STUDIA UBB PHYSICA, Volume 61 (LXI), No. 1, June, 2016

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2016-06-30

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SIMON, S., ARDELEAN, I., & SIMON, V. (2016). STRUCTURAL CHANGES INDUCED BY ACTINIDES INCORPORATION IN SODA-PHOSPHATE GLASSES. Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Physica, 61(1), 47–51. Retrieved from http://193.231.18.162/index.php/subbphysica/article/view/5798

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