Structures of Sodium Silicate Glass

The structural model of sodium silicate glass plays a crucial role in understanding the properties and the nature of binary glass and other more complicated silicate glasses.This work proposes a structural model for sodium silicate glass based on the medium-range ordering structure of silica glass and the information found from the Na_(2)O-SiO_(2) phase diagram.This new model is different from previous ones.First,the sodium silica glass is both structurally and chemically heterogeneous on the nanometer scale.Secondly,the sodium cation distribution is Na_(2)O concentration-dependent.In order to reflect the structural change with Na_(2)O concentration,it requires two different schematic graphs to present the glass structure.The model can be extended to other binary and multiple component silicate glasses and can be experimentally verified.