Abstract
Three distinctly different microstructures of silica (as quartz and crystobalite), alumina, enstatite, and celsian, were found to develop in a 60SiO2-20MgO-10Al2O3-10BaO glass ceramic. At 1010 C, growth of wormy fibrillar crystals was observed, indicating that crystal growth was diffusion controlled. At the intermediate temperature of 1080°C, a coarse cellular microstructure developed with multiple spherical particles nucleated on their surfaces and in the surrounding glass. At 1200°C, the glass crystallizes in a denderitic morphology but the dendrites were actually fragmented into multiple cube-shaped enstatite crystals, indicating a transition to interface-controlled growth. The crystals coarsen with time but maintain their order along the dendrite skeletons.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2249-2254 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of the American Ceramic Society |
Volume | 88 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Aug 2005 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ceramics and Composites
- Materials Chemistry