About activation energy of viscous flow of glasses and melts

2015 ◽  
Vol 1757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael I. Ojovan

ABSTRACTData on a viscous flow model based on network defects – broken bonds termed configurons – were analysed. An universal equation has been derived for the variable activation energy of viscous flow Q(T) of the generic Frenkel equation of viscosity η(T)=A∙exp(Q/RT) which is known to have two constant asymptotes – high QH at low temperatures and low QL at high temperatures. The defect model of flow used by e.g. Doremus, Mott, Nemilov, Sanditov states that higher the concentration of defects (e.g. configurons) the lower the viscosity. We have used the configuron percolation theory (CPT) which treats glass–liquid transition as a percolation-type phase transition. Additionally the CPT results in a continuous temperature relationship for viscosity valid for both glassy and liquid amorphous materials. We show that a particular result of CPT is the universal temperature relationship for the activation energy of viscous flow: Q(T)=QL+RT∙ln[1+exp(-Sd/R) exp((QH-QL)/RT)] which depends on asymptotic energies QL (for the liquid phase) and QH (for the glassy phase), and on entropy of configurons Sd. This equation has two asymptotes, namely Q(T<<Tg) = QH, and Q(T>>Tg) = QL. Moreover we demonstrate that the equation for Q(T) practically coincides in the transition range of temperatures with known Sanditov equation.

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (15) ◽  
pp. 2725 ◽  
Author(s):  
Málek ◽  
Svoboda

It is expected that viscous flow is affecting the kinetic processes in a supercooled liquid, such as the structural relaxation and the crystallization kinetics. These processes significantly influence the behavior of glass being prepared by quenching. In this paper, the activation energy of viscous flow is discussed with respect to the activation energy of crystal growth and the structural relaxation of glassy selenium. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermomechanical analysis (TMA) and hot-stage infrared microscopy were used. It is shown that the activation energy of structural relaxation corresponds to that of the viscous flow at the lowest value of the glass transition temperature obtained within the commonly achievable time scale. The temperature-dependent activation energy of crystal growth, data obtained by isothermal and non-isothermal DSC and TMA experiments, as well as direct microscopic measurements, follows nearly the same dependence as the activation energy of viscous flow, taking into account viscosity and crystal growth rate decoupling due to the departure from Stokes–Einstein behavior.


1983 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 278-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. J. Gibbs ◽  
J. E. Evetts ◽  
J. A. Leake

Author(s):  
Lyudmila P. SEMIKHINA ◽  
Daniil D. Korovin

A Brookfield DV-II + Pro rotational viscometer was used to study the viscosity of 7 samples of concentrated nanodispersed systems (nanofluids) with a similar viscosity (6-22 mPa ∙ s), the particles of the dispersed phase in which are nanosized surfactant micelles and conglomerates from them. It was found that for 5 out of 7 studied reagents, there is a decrease in viscosity typical for dispersed systems with an increase in the shear rate, and their flow curves, that is, the dependence of the shear stress on the shear rate, correspond to the ideal plastic flow of non-Newtonian fluids. Moreover, with high reliability, R2 ≥ 0.999 is described by the Bingham equation with a small value of the limiting shear stress (less than 0.2 Pa). It is shown that all the studied reagents are also characterized by an increase in the activation energy of a viscous flow Е with an increase in the shear rate. As a result, a decrease in viscosity with an increase in shear rate, typical for disperse systems, including nanofluids, is provided by a more significant increase in entropy changes ΔS compared to Е. It has been substantiated that, depending on the ratio between the activation energy of viscous flow Е and the change in entropy ΔS, the viscosity of concentrated micellar dispersed systems with an increase in the shear rate can decrease, remain unchanged, and increase. The last two cases, not typical for disperse systems and nanofluids, were identified and studied using the example of two demulsifiers, RIK-1 and RIK-2, with a maximum of a very narrow particle size distribution at 160 ± 5 nm, corresponding to the size of a special type of very stable micelles Surfactant — vesicle.


2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 217-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. V. Perig ◽  
N. N. Golodenko ◽  
I. G. Zhbankov ◽  
I. I. Boiko ◽  
A. A. Sitnik

2009 ◽  
Vol 283-286 ◽  
pp. 533-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazumasa Yamada ◽  
N. Shinagawa ◽  
M. Sogame ◽  
I.A. Figueroa ◽  
Hywel A. Davies ◽  
...  

The aim of this research is to clarify a quantitative evaluation in the structural relaxation processes focusing on the activation energy in Cu based amorphous alloys. The activation energy for structural relaxation process in a metal type amorphous CuHfTi ternary alloys, with cross sections of typically 0.03 mm x 2.0 mm, prepared by chill-block melt spinning has been investigated by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) with a cyclically heating technique. Activation energies for structural relaxation with a spatial quantity in amorphous materials have been discussed by use of a relaxed ratio function that depends on annealing temperature and time. In the present work, the distributions for the Activation Energy Spectrum (AES) were observed almost 152 kJmol-1 (1.58 eV). Another result has been also established that the “reversible” AES model energy distribution though the cyclically structure relaxation occurs even in amorphous Cu60Hf20Ti20 alloy.


2003 ◽  
Vol 58 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 457-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Potapov ◽  
V. Khokhlov ◽  
Y. Satoa

The kinematic viscosity of molten CeCl3, NdCl3, SmCl3, DyCl3 and ErCl3 has been measured by using a capillary viscometer. The dynamic viscosity was computed by using density data taken from the literature. The viscosity increases with going from CeCl3 to ErCl3. The activation energy of the viscous flow, calculated by the Arrhenius equation, rises in the same order.


1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. L. Weichman

We discuss the effect on the electrical conductivity of a semiconductor if small metal inclusions are formed within the bulk of the semiconductor where the metal to semiconductor contact is a rectifying one. We find that the depletion layers formed inside the material can dominate the conduction process and give rise to conditions similar to that of a highly compensated semiconductor with highly variable activation energy. Some of the predictions of the model are compared to observed facts in cuprous oxide and are shown to be consistent with observation. The expected behaviour of a semiconductor with internal injecting contacts is also briefly discussed.


2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-25
Author(s):  
Karol Monkos

Abstract The paper presents the results of viscosity determinations on aqueous solutions of ovalbumin at a wide range of concentrations and at temperatures ranging from 5°C to 55°C. On the basis of these measurements and three models of viscosity for glass-forming liquids: Avramov’s model, free-volume model and power-law model, the activation energy of viscous flow for solutions and ovalbumin molecules, at different temperatures, was calculated. The obtained results show that activation energy monotonically decreases with increasing temperature both for solutions and ovalbumin molecules. The influence of the energy of translational heat motion, protein-protein and protein-solvent interactions, flexibility and hydrodynamic radius of ovalbumin on the rate of decrease in activation energy with temperature has been discussed. One of the parameters in the Avramov’s equation is the glass transition temperature Tg. It turns out that the Tg of ovalbumin solutions increases with increasing concentration. To obtain the glass transition temperature of the dry ovalbumin, a modified Gordon-Taylor equation is used. Thus determined the glass transition temperature for dry ovalbumin is equal to (231.8 ± 6.1) K.


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