Abstract
AbstractWe report on the elastic properties of xMnO‐Al2O3‐(6‐x)SiO2 manganese aluminosilicate glasses, in which pronounced exchange coupling and antiferromagnetic interaction occurs among the paramagnetic Mn2+ ions. X‐ray absorption reveals a Mn‐O bond length of ∼2.1 Å, and a distance of ∼3 Å between Mn2+ ions in sixfold coordination, further corroborated by electron paramagnetic resonance and dynamic photoluminescence spectroscopy. This indicates the presence of edge‐sharing MnO6 units, in resemblance to edge‐sharing MnO8 in the crystalline Spessartine garnet Mn3Al2[SiO4]3. We argue that these cluster species have a profound effect on material stiffness: the compact structure of manganese aluminosilicate glasses enables a Young's modulus in the 100 GPa range and a Poisson's ratio of about 0.3. This exceeds the compositional trend with cation field strength observed for other aluminosilicate glasses.
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