Advances in Materials Physics and Chemistry, 2013, 3, 332-339
Published Online December 2013 (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ampc)
http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ampc.2013.38046
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Elaboration and Structural Investigation of Iron (III)
Phosphate Glasses
Said Aqdim1,2*, Malika Ouchetto3
1Laboratoire de Physique de Haute Energie et de l’Etat Condensé University Hassan II Ain Chock, Casablanca, Morocco
2Laboratoire de Chimie Minérale, Département de Chimie, Faculty of
Sciences, Université Hassan II Ain Chock, Casablanca, Marocco
3Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide Appliquée, Faculty of Science Rabat, University Mohammed V, Rabat, Morocco
Email: *said_aq@yahoo.fr, mouchtto@fsr.ac.ma
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ABSTRACT
The regular melting-quenching method allowed isolating very large vitreous domains within the ternary system Li2O-
P2O5-Fe2O3 at 1100˚C. The vitrification and crystallization effects are discussed in terms of phosphorus pentaoxide
concentration (mol%). In the course of the present study, we analyzed chemical durability along the glass domain and
many sample glasses were isolated. We noticed that our compounds demonstrated very high chemical resistance to at-
tack, even with very highly concentrated mineral acid solutions. This behavior can be assigned to the presence of poorly
crystalline phases in these glasses, which tended to increase as the Fe2O3 content increased. This property is a prerequi-
site for many interesting industrial applications. XRD, IR spectroscopy and SEM micrographs allowed an efficient in-
vestigation of the structural changes versus composition within ternary diagrams. The results were found to be consis-
tent with the regular structural changes of phosphate glasses.
Keywords: Phosphate Glasses; Glass Formation; Chemical Resistance; IR Spectroscopy; XRD; SEM
1. Introduction
The practical application of phosphate glasses is often
limited by their poor chemical resistance. Recently, sev-
eral phosphate glasses with high aqueous corrosion re-
sistance have been reported [1]. Compared with conven-
tional oxide glasses such as SiO2, phosphate glasses
based on P2O5 are technologically important materials,
primarily due to their superior physical properties such as
low glass transition temperatures, chemical durability,
low optical dispersions and relatively high thermal ex-
pansion coefficients. These properties make these glasses
as potential candidates for many technological applica-
tions such as sealing materials, bioglasses, and electronic
and optical devices, as laser hosts, nuclear waste glasses,
glass-to-metal seals and as solid state electrolytes, etc.,
[1-6]. With their unusually high chemical durability and
low processing temperature, iron phosphate glasses have
been considered better for the vitrifying of nuclear
wastes than borosilicate glasses [7,8]. The aim of the
present work firstly is to define the glass area in a ternary
diagram and especially in the Li2O-Fe2O3-P2O5. So we
have explored that the introduction of iron oxide in the
glass network can be up to 30 mol% according to the
conditions in which we worked, either at atmospheric
pressure or at 1080˚C - 1100˚C. Secondly it is to invest-
tigate the chemical resistance and structural properties of
lithium-iron phosphate glasses and to relate the improve
of chemical resistance to the structural change using IR
spectroscopies, XR diffraction and SEM. Hence with
increasing Fe2O3 content in the phosphate glass network,
the P-O-P bands are replaced by more resistant Fe-O-P
bands.
2. Experimental
The composition of the glasses was xLi2O-yFe2O3-χP2O5,
with (χ = (100 (x + y); mol%), obtained by the melt-
ing-quenching method at 1100˚C. An appropriate mix-
ture of mixing compounds, i.e. Li2CO3, ferric oxides and
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(NH4)2HPO4, was initially tempered at various tempera-
tures between 100˚C - 600˚C to achieve a preparation
before glass preparation. The melts were achieved in
alumina crucibles for about 15 min at 1080˚C ± 10˚C.
The isolated glasses had regular shapes and an approxi-
mate size of 10 mm in diameter and 2 mm in thickness.
The vitreous state was first evidenced from the shiny
aspect and then confirmed from XRD patterns. Anneal-
ing of these glasses was performed at increasing tem-
peratures in intervals of 100˚C. The first structural ap-
proach was made using X-ray diffraction which allowed
us to follow the crystallization of the vitreous domain of
Li2O-Fe2O3-P2O5. The microstructure of sample glasses
was characterized by scanning electron microy (SEM),
equipped with a microanalyzer full system (EDX-
EDAX). The chemical durability of the glasses with the
composition x Li2O-y Fe2O3-χP2O5; (χ- = (100 (x + y))
were subjected to acid solutions using weak and strong
concentrations of HCl and H2SO4 (0.1 N, 1 N and 10 N).
The duration of attack for some glasses and solution
concentration continued for up to 30 days. The infrared
(IR) spectra for each glass were measured between 400
and 1400 cm1 using mX-1 and NIC-3600 FTIR spec-
trometers. Samples were prepared by pressing a mixture
of about 2 mg of glass powder with 100 mg of anhydrous
KBr powder.
3. Results
In the system Li2O-P2O5, transparent glasses were pre-
pared for 0 x 62 (Figure 1). These values are in
agreement with published results [9,10], but they are
superior to those given by other authors [11,12]. This
was probably caused by the different experimental con-
ditions (temperature of melting, speed of tempering, etc.)
[13]. In the binary system Fe2O3-P2O5, the substitution of
P2O5with Fe2O3 led to black glasses that were not hygro-
scopic for ironoxide contents between 0 and 30 mol%
(Figure 1). Ternary glasses rich in Fe2O3 content had a
dark brown color which became more and more brown
clear as the lithium oxide content increased and the
Fe2O3 content decreased. The demarcation of the glassy
zone within the ternary diagram Li2O-Fe2O3-P2O5 is
given by the following limits: 0 x 62; 0 y 30; 36
χ 1; (mol%) (Figure 1).
3.1. Annealing Temperature
The annealing of the ternary glasses was performed by
increasing the temperature in intervals of 100˚C. An in-
crease in the lithium oxide modifier led to a slight in-
crease in the crystallization temperature. For the glasses
with the composition xLi2O-5 Fe2O3-χP2O5, the crystal-
lization temperature increased from 390˚C to 480˚C for x
= 30 to x = 50, respectively (Figure 2 [14]. On the other
hand, Figure 3 shows that an increase in the Fe2O3 con-
tent in the glasses xLi2O-yFe2O3-χP2O5(with x/χ = 0.54)
caused a quick increase in the value of the crystallization
temperature from 120˚C for a binary glass Li2O-P2O5 (y
= 0) to 540˚C for y = 18 [6,15]. Figure 4 shows for the
binary glasses Fe2O3-P2O5 that the variation in the an-
nealing temperature (Tc) according to the Fe2O3 conten-
thad a maximum at 700˚C for the glass composition 16
Fe2O3-84P2O5 and was constant when the Fe2O3 content
was more than y = 25 [16,17].
3.2. X-Ray Diffraction
The X-ray diffraction spectra show that the crystallized
glasses seemed to be similar to the closest crystalline
Figure 1. Extended from the vitreous field within the ternary diagram of Li2O-P2O5-Fe2O3 to 1080˚C - 1100˚C.
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Li2O (mol%)
xLi2O-5Fe2O3-χP2O5
T ˚C
600
400
200
20 40 60
Figure 2. Crystallization temperature of iron phosphate
glasses with the composition xLi2O-5Fe2O3-χP2O5.
Fe
2
O
3
(mol%)
xLi
2
O-yFe
2
O
3
-χP
2
O
5
T ˚C
600
500
400
300
200
100
x/χ = 0.54
5 10 15
Figure 3. Crystallization temperature of iron phosphate
glasses for the ratio Li2O/P2O5 = 0.54.
phases within the ternary diagram of Li2O-Fe2O3-P2O5.
The X-ray diffraction spectra of crystallized glasses with
the composition x Li2O-5Fe2O3-χP2O5 were similar to
those of the LiPO3 glasses in the neighborhood of χ = 50
(Figure 5(a)) and those of Li4P2O7 for χ 45 (Figure
5(b)). Figure 6 shows the structural evolution for the
ternary glasses x.Li2O-y.Fe2O3-χP2O5 localized along the
line attributed to the ratio Li2O/P2O5 = 0.54. We noted a
mixture of metaphosphate phases for an Fe2O3 content
5, and pyrophosphate phases with an Fe2O3 content 15
[1,18,19]. The x-ray diffraction spectra for crystallized
glasses of the binary system y Fe2O3-(100-y) P2O5 (Fig-
ure 7) seemed to favor the form of phases similar to
Fe(PO3)3 which become more obvious when the Fe2O3
content increased to y = 25.
3.3. Chemical Stability
Binary glasses of the composition yFe2O3-(100-y) P2O5
had excellent chemical resistance toward chemical ag-
gressors when the iron oxide content was increased in the
glassy network. These glasses were immersed in weak
and strong acid solutions of HCl (0.1 N, 1 N and 10 N)
and H2SO4 (0.1 N, 1 N and 10 N) for 30 days. Their
weights before and after attack were practically the same.
Figure 1 shows that the iron ternary glasses had rela-
tively weak chemical resistance to chemical aggressors
when the Li2O content was increased in the glass net-
work. However, when this value decreased, the iron ter-
nary glasses became resistant, even with a low Fe2O3
content [1,5,20-22].
3.4. Infrared Spectra and SEM Analysis
The IR spectra of the binary yFe2O3-(1-y) P2O5 are
shown in Figure 8. With an increase in the Fe2O3 content,
both the bands observed at 1290 and 785 cm1 and the
band at 940 cm1 shifted to lower frequencies and the
intensities decreased by changing the Fe2O3 content from
10 to 28 mol%. The bands at 1290 cm1 assigned to υas
PO2 disappeared from the spectrum, while the band at
725 cm1 assigned to υs POP became a simple shoulder.
The intensity of the IR band at 1070 cm1 assigned to υs
PO2 increased broadly [1,23-25]. The IR spectra ob-
served with the composition xLi2O-5F e2O3-χP2O5 are
shown in Figure 9. When lithium oxide was added to the
glass network, this last one is depolymerized to the
shorter group units, in agreement with results published
by Ouchetto and al. [1,11,20-24]. The IR spectra show
that the band at 1280 cm1 assigned to υas PO3 decreased
and shifted to lower frequencies when we shift away
from the P2O5 point. On the other hand, the intensity of
the band at 1100 - 1120 cm1 was assigned to increased
υs PO2 when
yFe
2
O
3
-(100-y) P
2
O
5
T ˚C
Fe
2
O
3
(mol%)
700
600
500
400
5
10 15 20 25
Figure 4. Crystallization temperatures of iron phosphate
glasses with the composition yFe2O3-(100-y) P2O5.
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(a)
xLi
2
O-5 Fe
2
O
3
-χP
2
O
5
Intensity (arbry)
2θ (Degree)
10 20 30
Li
4
P
2
O
7
Χ = 40 mol%
(b)
Figure 5. X-ray diffraction of crystallized lithium-iron
phosphate glasses with the composition xLi2O-5Fe2O3-χP2O5
compared with compounds LiPO3 (a) and Li4P2O7 (b).
the lithium oxide content increased. This increase in the
Li2O content breaks P-O-P bonds and increases the num-
ber of non-oxygen bridges. The IR spectra observed with
these glasses were similar to the spectra of the xLi2O-
χP2O5 family, which can be explained by a similar struc-
tural evolution [1,10,12]. Figures 10 and 11 show the IR
spectra of glasses with the compositionsx Li2O-yFe2O3-
χP2O5 with x/χ = 0.54 and xLi2O-yFe2O3-60P2O5, re-
spectively. The analysis of these spectra showed that the
band at 1290 cm1 assigned to υas PO2 shifted toward
lower frequencies and decreased when the iron oxides
content increased. It disappeared completely when the
Fe2O3 content was >25. On the other hand, the band at
1070 - 1100 cm1 assigned to υsPO2 with an iron oxide
content of 10 y 30 seemed to form an envelope of the
spectra of the compound LiFeP2O7 (Figure 10), [1,19,23,
25-27]. These results suggest that these glasses were
Intensity (arbry)
xLi
2
O-yFe
2
O
3
-χP
2
O
5
x/χ = 0.54 LiFeP
2
O
7
2
(Degree)
10 20 30
y = 18 mol%
y = 15 mol%
y = 10 mol%
y = 5 mol%
y = 2.5 mol%
y = 0 mol%
Figure 6. X-ray diffraction after heat treatment at crystal-
lization temperatures for lithium-iron phosphate glasses
with the composition xLi2O-yFe2O3-χP2O5 with x/χ = 0.54.
2θ (Degree)
yFe
2
O
3
-(100-y) P
2
O
5
Intensity (arbry)
Fe(PO
3
)
3
10 20 30
y = 28 mol%
y = 25 mol%
y = 20 mol%
y = 16 mol%
y = 10 mol%
y = 8 mol%
Figure 7. X-ray diffraction of crystallized iron phosphate
glasses of the binary system yFe2O3-(100-y)P2O5.
formed, in general, by unit groups of pyrophosphate
when the Fe2O3 content increased. Figure 12 shows
SEM micrographs of sample S1 with the composition
30Li2O·10Fe2O3·60P2O5 as well as micrographs of S2
and S3 with the composition 20Li2O·20Fe2O3·60P2O5
and 10Li2O·30Fe2O3·60P2O5, respectively. The SEM
micrograph of S1 (Figure 12(a)) shows an approxima-
tely homogenous glassy phase. However, SEM analysis
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Wavenumber (cm
1
)
Absorbance relative
yFe
2
O
3
-(100-y)P
2
O
5
1600 1200 800 400
y = 10 mol%
y = 25 mol%
y = 20 mol%
y = 16 mol%
y = 28 mol%
480
480
495
490 530
775 760 780 785 785
940 935
930
925
1070
1290
1085
1260
1080
1200
1065
1246
925
1075
Figure 8. IR spectra of iron phosphate glasses with the
composition yFe2O3-(100-y)P2O5.
Absorbance relative
Wavenumber (cm
1
)
xLi
2
O-5Fe
2
O
3
-χP
2
O
5
1200 800 400
X = 40 mol%
510
X = 45 mol%
X = 50 mol%
X = 55 mol%
X = 60 mol%
X = 65 mol%
740
475
755
930 900
1255
1100 1120
1280
Figure 9. IR spectra of iron phosphate glasses with the
composition xLi2O-5Fe2O3-χP2O5.
indicated the presence of crystalline phases in samples
S2 and S3 which had an Fe2O3 content 20 (mol%),
Absorbance relative
Wavenumber (cm
1
)
Li
4
P
2
O
7
5 mol%
10 mol%
18 mol%
18 mol%
1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 200
735-758
1225-1250 460-540
1075-1100 940-905
Figure 10. IR spectra of lithium-iron phosphate glasses with
the composition xLi2O-yFe2O3-χP2O5 with x/χ = 0.54.
Wavenumber (cm
1
)
Absorbance relative
y = 10 mol%
480-500
y = 15 mol%
1400 1200 1000 800 600 400 250
y = 20 mol%
y = 25 mol%
1060-1100
1250-1265 910-930
740-775
y = 30 mol%
Figure 11. IR spectra of lithium-iron phosphate glasses with
the composition (40-y)Li2O-yFe2O3-60P2O5.
shown in Figures 12(b) and (c), respectively. Hence, it
seems that with an increasing Fe2O3 content, the crystal-
lization tendency is enhanced; the LiFeP2O7 and Fe(PO3)3
phases almost certainly crystallized in these glasses.
4. Discussion
The regular melting-quenching method allowed for iso-
lating a very large vitreous domain within the ternary
system Li2O-P2O5-Fe2O3. An increase in the lithium ox-
ide content in phosphate glasses caused a small increase
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c
b
a
Figure 12. SEM micrographs of samples with the composi-
tion (40-y)Li2O-yFe2O3-60P2O5.
in the crystallization temperature. However, an increase
in the Fe2O3 content in phosphate glasses initiated an
important increase in the crystallization temperature.
This was more significant for the binary glasses Fe2O3-
P2O5 where the crystallization temperature reached
700˚C for the sample with the composition
16Fe2O3·84P2O5. The X-ray diffraction spectra indicate
the structural evolution of crystallized glasses inthe ter-
nary diagram of Li2O-Fe2O3-P2O5. The resultsshow that
when the composition of the vitreous zone was moved
away from the P2O5 point, the structure evolved toward
one with a known crystallized composition neighborhood,
LiPO3, Fe(PO3)3, Li4P2O7, LiFeP2O7. When the iron ox-
ide content increased in the glass network, both binary
and ternary glasses showed excellent chemical resistance
toward chemical aggressors. However, an increase in the
Li2O content led to poor chemical resistance. The IR
spectra for glasses with the composition xLi2O-5Fe2O3-
P2O5 show that an increase in the lithium oxide content
in the glass network induced the birth of small units,more
than in the binary system Li2O-P2O5 [1,9,11].Hence, the
introduction of a low Fe2O3 content (y < 10) in the glass
had no effect on the structural evolution. The IR spectra
in the region between 1060 and 1100 cm1 for the glasses
with the composition x Li2O-yFe2O3-χP2O5 with x/χ =
0.54 and (40-y) Li2O-yFe2O3-60P2O5 confirmed the for-
mation hypothesis of more small groups of P2O74 [28,29]
when the Fe2O3 content increased in the glass-network.
IR spectra of the binary glasses Fe2O3-P2O5 show that the
band at 1290 cm1 assigned to υa(PO3) [1,2,7,9] disap-
peared when the Fe2O3 content increased from y = 10 to
y = 28, which assigns the band at 1070 cm1 to υs (PO2)
[1,9]. These results agree with those obtained by X-ray
diffraction. Hence, these results indicate that iron phos-
phate glasses which have a high Fe2O3 content are domi-
nated by P2O74 and (PO3)33 dimer units and contain a
large number of Fe-O-P bonds which are responsible for
theirexcellent chemical durability [16, 30-31]. The X-ray
diffraction and IR spectra for the iron phosphate glasses
depend considerably on the composition and glass struc-
ture. The changes in the characteristic features of these
spectra follow the changes in the glass network and glass
stability in addition to crystallization.
In the model of the samples glasses S1, S2 and S3 we
noted a clear evolution in chemical resistance, probably
caused by grain boundary resistance as a result of partial
glass crystallization [26,32]. It was found that the intro-
duction of a small amount of Fe2O3 (y < 10) in the glass
don’t changes the glass structure (Figure 9) and no sig-
nificant effect on the chemical resistance. Looks like, it
dissolves in the glass to give a homogeneous glass phase.
When the iron oxide content reach 10 mol%, there are
beginning of crystallites having a glassy phase dominant.
Beyond 10% mole Fe2O3 content in the glass, the number
of crystallites becomes increasingly important, and size
becoming larger when approaching the boundary be-
tween the glass and the crystal (border).
5. Conclusion
The regular melting-quenching method allowed isolating
a very large vitreous domain within the ternary system
Li2O-P2O5-Fe2O3. The structure and properties of lithium
iron phosphate glasses were investigated using various
techniques. Both X-ray diffraction and IR spectra indi-
cate a structural evolution of glasses with composition in
the ternary diagram of Li2O-Fe2O3-P2O5. The results
show that when the composition of the vitreous zone was
moved away from the P2O5 point, the structure evolved
toward one with a known crystallized composition
neighborhood, LiPO3, Fe(PO3)3, Li4P2O7, LiFeP2O7.
These glasses showed good chemical resistance for com-
positions with a high Fe2O3 content. The iron phosphor-
rus-oxygen network became stronger with an increase in
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the Fe2O3 content. The improved chemical resistance of
iron phosphate glasses was attributed to the replacement
of the easily hydrated P-O-P and Li-O-P bonds by corro-
sion-resistant Fe-O-P bonds. As the Fe2O3 content in the
glass increased, the number of Fe-O-P bands also in-
creased. The IR spectra indicates that iron phosphate
glasses are dominated by , 3
3 dimer units
and contain a large number of Fe-O-P bonds. The struc-
tural change caused an important tendency for crystalli-
zation which is the origin of the high chemical durability.
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