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Fluorochlorozirconate Glass Ceramics For Computed Radiography, Adam Wesley Evans
Fluorochlorozirconate Glass Ceramics For Computed Radiography, Adam Wesley Evans
Masters Theses
Heat treating fluorochlorozirconate (FCZ) glasses nucleates nanocrystals in the glass matrix, resulting in a glass ceramic that has optical properties suitable for use as a medical imaging plate. As the temperature of heat treatment rises, the resulting FCZ glass-ceramic becomes increasingly more opaque as the size of the orthorhombic phase BaCl2[barium chloride] nanocrystals grow within the glass matrix. This opaqueness negatively affects imaging. The effect of adding Fe3+[iron] on the valence state of zirconium and overall glass quality was investigated.
Samples were synthesized and characterized with differential scanning calorimetry to determine the temperature of the orthorhombic …