Structural Study on Lithium-Barium Borophosphate Glasses Using Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy

2012 ◽  
Vol 626 ◽  
pp. 11-15
Author(s):  
Wan Ming Hua ◽  
Poh Sum Wong ◽  
Rosli Hussin ◽  
Zuhairi Ibrahim

This paper reported on the structural properties of Lithium-Barium borophosphate glasses. The glasses were prepared through melt quenching technique and studied in the compositional series which was 25Li2O:25BaO:(x)B2O3:(50-x)P2O5where 0x50 mol% .The aims of this work were to investigate the vibration mode about the local order around phosphorus tetrahedral structures and the boron coordination changed from trigonal to tetrahedral structures. Their basic properties were determined and their structure was studied by Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) and Raman spectroscopy. Both spectroscopy analysis of the sample revealed vibration mode related to the characteristic phosphate bonds and borate bonds especially P-O-P, O-P-O ,P-O-B, BO3and BO4. Structural studies were devoted to the investigation of changes in boron coordination in the dependence on changes in B2O3or P2O5ratio in the borophosphate glasses. The decrease in the strength of the vibrations of the non-bridging PO2groups seems to indicate a progressive increase in the connectivity of the glass with increasing B2O3content. It was likely that this connectivity was due to the formation of P-O-B links at 890 cm-1, which replaced the vibration mode P-O-P. The increasing of B2O3content and decreasing the P2O5content causes the boron coordination changes from trigonal to tetrahedral and the basic units change from BO3to BO4. Overall, the high frequency bands corresponding to stretching vibration become broader, less distinct and overlap each other with an increasing B2O3content and decreasing P2O5content.

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 1340-1346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven E. J. Bell ◽  
Louise A. Fido ◽  
S. James Speers ◽  
W. James Armstrong ◽  
Sharon Spratt

White household paints are commonly encountered as evidence in the forensic laboratory but they often cannot be readily distinguished by color alone so Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) microscopy is used since it can sometimes discriminate between paints prepared with different organic resins. Here we report the first comparative study of FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy for forensic analysis of white paint. Both techniques allowed the 51 white paint samples in the study to be classified by inspection as either belonging to distinct groups or as unique samples. FT-IR gave five groups and four unique samples; Raman gave seven groups and six unique samples. The basis for this discrimination was the type of resin and/or inorganic pigments/extenders present. Although this allowed approximately half of the white paints to be distinguished by inspection, the other half were all based on a similar resin and did not contain the distinctive modifiers/pigments and extenders that allowed the other samples to be identified. The experimental uncertainty in the relative band intensities measured using FT-IR was similar to the variation within this large group, so no further discrimination was possible. However, the variation in the Raman spectra was larger than the uncertainty, which allowed the large group to be divided into three subgroups and four distinct spectra, based on relative band intensities. The combination of increased discrimination and higher sample throughput means that the Raman method is superior to FT-IR for samples of this type.


Author(s):  
K. Antonova ◽  
P. Byshewski ◽  
G. Zhizhin ◽  
J. Piechota ◽  
M. Marhevka

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Zumelzu ◽  
M. J. Wehrhahn ◽  
F. Rull ◽  
H. Pesenti ◽  
O. Muñoz ◽  
...  

The material employed in this study is an ecoefficient, environmentally friendly, chromium (VI)-free (noncarcinogenic) metal polymer. The originality of the research lies in the study of the effect of new production procedures of salmon on metal packaging with multilayer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) polymer coatings. Our hypothesis states that the adhesion of postmortem salmon muscles to the PET polymer coating produces surface and structural changes that affect the functionality and limit the useful life of metal containers, compromising therefore their recycling capacity as ecomaterials. This work is focused on studying the effects of the biochemical changes of postmortem salmon on the PET coating and how muscle degradation favors adhesion to the container. The experimental design considered a series of laboratory tests of containers simulating the conditions of canned salmon, chemical and physical tests of food-contact canning to evaluate the adhesion, and characterization of changes in the multilayer PET polymer by electron microscopy, ATR, FT-IR, and Raman spectroscopy analyses. The analyses determined the effect of heat treatment of containers on the loss of freshness of canned fish and the increased adhesion to the container wall, and the limited capability of the urea treatment to remove salmon muscle from the container for recycling purposes.


2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 503-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shukur Gofurov ◽  
Urol Makhmanov ◽  
Abdulmutallib Kokhkharov ◽  
Oksana B. Ismailova

A refractometric method, coupled with molecular dynamics study, attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared (ATR FT-IR), and Raman spectroscopy, was used to determine optical characteristics of concentration features of aqueous solutions of acetic acid. Measurements of the refractive index of aqueous solutions of acetic acid in the wide range of acetic acid concentrations (∼ 0 ÷ 1 mole fraction) in a solution at a room temperature were conducted. Maximum value of refractive index was detected at a concentration of ∼0.3 mole fraction. The deviation from the parabolic form of the dependence of the refractive index on the concentration occurs at a concentration of ∼0.8 mole fraction. As far as we know, this deviation has been observed for the first time. The maximum is attributed to the largest number of molecular interactions between water and acetic acid molecules, while the deviation is associated with the parallel orientation of acetic acid molecules. To identify the reconstructing of molecules in the system, FT-IR and Raman spectra of these solutions at a concentration of ∼0.3 and ∼0.8 mole fraction were recorded and compared with pure solutions. The data obtained by using ATR FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy support the idea that the refractometric method is sensitive to determine the structural states of aqueous solutions of acetic acid.


Author(s):  
Enrico Benassi ◽  
Tamara Vaganova ◽  
Evgenij V Malykhin ◽  
Haiyan Fan

Seven partially and fully fluorinated/chlorinated pyridines were investigated by means of FT-IR and Raman spectroscopy combined with quantum chemical calculations with the main aim to detect how the nature and...


2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (10) ◽  
pp. 2278-2285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina Crocellà ◽  
Elena Groppo ◽  
Alessandro Dani ◽  
Alberto Castellero ◽  
Silvia Bordiga ◽  
...  

The functional properties of a new composite material having water vapor getter properties have been investigated by a large arsenal of characterization techniques. The composite system is originated by combining two constituents having very different chemical natures, a magnesium perchlorate (Mg(ClO4)2) salt and a polymeric acrylic matrix. In particular, Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) and Raman spectroscopy have been fundamental to understand the type of interactions between the salt and the matrix in different hydration conditions. It was found that in the anhydrous composite system the dispersed Mg(ClO4)2 salt retains its molecular structure, because Mg2+ cations are still surrounded by their [ClO4]– counter-anions; at the same time, the salt and the polymeric matrix chemically interact each other at the molecular level. These interactions gradually vanish in the presence of water, and disappear in the fully hydrated composite system, where the Mg2+ cations are completely solvated by the water molecules.


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