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American Physical Society, Physical review B, 6(70)

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.70.064202

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Correlated Structural Distributions in Silica Glass

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Abstract

The two-dimensional O17 dynamic-angle spinning solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum of silica glass produced from the melt was measured. From this spectrum a three-dimensional histogram correlating O17 chemical shift, quadrupolar coupling constant, and quadrupolar coupling asymmetry parameter for the bridging oxygen was obtained. Using existing correlations between NMR parameters and local structure, the distribution in quadrupolar coupling parameters was mapped into two-dimensional histograms correlating the Si-O-Si angle with Si-O distance, the Si-O-Si angle with Si-Si distance, and the Si-O distance with Si-Si distance. While the peak values for the Si-O-Si angle, the Si-O distance, and Si-Si distance distributions, at 147° , 1.59Å , and 3.05Å , respectively, are consistent within the precision of the NMR measurement with previous diffraction studies, the distribution widths are narrower than previous diffraction studies. The two-dimensional histogram reveals an unexpected strong positive correlation between the Si-O-Si angle and Si-O distance in the glass, running opposite to the trend generally found in crystalline silica polymorphs.