# Formation of a zirconium oxide crystal nucleus in the initial nucleation stage in aluminosilicate glass investigated by X-ray multiscale analysis

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2024-04-19T02:01:23.371899Z

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41427-024-00542-y

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2024-04-19

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## Title

- title: Formation of a zirconium oxide crystal nucleus in the initial nucleation
    stage in aluminosilicate glass investigated by X-ray multiscale analysis
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: Understanding the nucleation mechanism in glass is crucial for the
    development of new glass-ceramic materials. Herein, we report the structure of
    a commercially important glass-ceramic ZrO2-doped lithium aluminosilicate system
    during its initial nucleation stage. We conducted an X-ray multiscale analysis,
    and this analysis was used to observe the structure from the atomic to the nanometer
    scale by using diffraction, small-angle scattering, absorption, and anomalous
    scattering techniques. The inherent phase separation between the Zr-rich and Zr-poor
    regions in the pristine glass was enhanced by thermal treatment without changing
    the spatial geometry at the nanoscale. Element-specific pair distribution function
    analysis using anomalous X-ray scattering data showed the formation of a liquid
    ZrO2-like local structural motif and edge sharing between the ZrOx polyhedra and
    (Si/Al)O4 tetrahedra during the initial nucleation stage. Furthermore, the local
    structure of the Zr4+ ions resembled a cubic or tetragonal ZrO2 crystalline phase
    and formed after 2 h of annealing the pristine glass. Therefore, the Zr-centric
    periodic structure formed in the early stage of nucleation was potentially the
    initial crystal nucleus for the Zr-doped lithium aluminosilicate glass-ceramic.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: und

## Creator

- name: Yohei Onodera
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3080-6991
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
- name: Yasuyuki Takimoto
  role: author
- name: Hiroyuki Hijiya
  role: author
- name: Qing Li
  role: author
- name: Hiroo Tajiri
  role: author
- name: Toshiaki Ina
  role: author
- name: Shinji Kohara
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9596-2680
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science

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organization: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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## Keyword

- subject: Glass
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- subject: Glass ceramics
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- subject: Anomalous X-ray scattering
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- identifier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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## Journal

- title: NPG Asia Materials
  issn: '18844057'
  volume: '16'
  issue: '1'
  article_number: '22'

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## Funding

- identifier: 20H05878
  funder_name: MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- identifier: 20H05881
  funder_name: MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- identifier: 19K05648
  funder_name: MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

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