Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Vol.112, No.37, 11756-11761, 2008
Oxygen-17 nuclear magnetic resonance study of the structure of mixed cation calcium-sodium silicate glasses at high pressure: Implications for molecular link to element partitioning between silicate liquids and crystals
The structure of silicate glasses and the corresponding liquids at high pressure and their structure-property relations remain difficult questions in modern physical chemistry, geochemistry, and condensed matter physics. Here we report high-resolution solid-state 0-17 3QMAS NMR spectra for mixed cation Ca-Na silicate glasses quenched from melts at high pressure up to 8 GPa. The spectra provide the experimental evidence for the varying pressure-dependence in two different types of nonbridging oxygen (NBO) environments (i.e., Na-O-Si and mixed {Ca,Na}-O-Si) in the single glass composition. The percentage of NBO drops significantly with increasing pressure and is a complex function of melt composition, including cation field strength of network modifying cations. A decrease in NBO fraction with pressure is negatively correlated with the element partitioning coefficient between crystals and liquids at high pressure.