Bi12TiO20 crystallization in a Bi2O3-TiO2-SiO2-Nd2O3 system
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2018-04-05
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Polycrystalline mono-phase bismuth titanate was produced by free cooling from melts heated to 1170 °C. The control over the initial amounts in the starting compositions in the system Bi2O3/TiO2/SiO2/Nd2O3 and over the thermal gradient of the heat process resulted in the formation of specific structures and microstructures of monophase sillenite ceramics. The main phase Bi12TiO20 belongs to the amorphous network groups based on oxides of silicon, bismuth and titanium. In this work, we demonstrated a way to control the crystalline and amorphous phase formation in bulk poly-crystalline materials in the selected system.