Production and properties of phase separated porous glass

ERTUŞ, Emre Burak | AHMETOĞLU, Çekdar Vakıf | ÖZTÜRK, Abdullah

A sodium borosilicate glass (SBG) was produced by conventional melt-quenching. As cast glass was heat treated to induce phase separation (SBG-HT), followed by acid leaching with HCl to dissolve one of the separated phases; i.e. alkali rich borate phase, so that a porous glass (PG) was obtained. In order to alter the pore structure, produced PG was subsequently alkali (NaOH) leached or alternatively heat treated. The samples were characterized by techniques including XRD, SEM, N2 adsorption/desorption. The total pore volume for PG was found to be 0.314 cm3/g, reached to 0.370 cm3/g by alkali le ...Daha fazlası