Investigation of structural properties of lead strontium borate glasses for gamma-ray shielding applications

Investigation of lead borate glasses doped with aluminium oxide as gamma ray shielding materials

“…Mass attenuation coefficient is the most commonly used parameter to study the interaction of gamma radiations. Concretes are commonly used as shielding materials in nuclear reactors for several types of nuclear radiations including a, b, c and neutrons (Pisarska, 2009;Kaundal et al, 2010;K.J. Singh et al, 2008;D.…”

“…PbO form stable glasses due to its dual nature; one as glass modifier (at low PbO additions) and other as glass former (at higher PbO additions). Pb has higher atomic number in the periodic table which implies lead based glasses may have better gamma-ray shielding properties (Kaundal et al, 2010;Ready et al, 2001). Aluminium oxide is added for increasing the mechanical strength (Andriy et al, 1999).…”

Gamma Rays Interactions with Strontium Borate Glasses Doped with First-Row Transition Metal Oxides

“…It is to be mentioned that the stability of the vibrational bands revealed in the IR spectra after gamma irradiation can be related to the introduction of SrO with relatively high percent 40% which increases the shielding behavior towards gamma irradiation as supported by the recent work of Kaundal et al [32]. Therefore, it is found profitable to mention in the legend of Fig.…”

“…Infrared spectra of glasses and crystalline analogs have been used as a basis for the comparative qualitative identification of glass-forming structural units [7,[28][29][30][31][32]. Due to structural non-periodicity within glasses in the group arrangement, a complete vibrational analysis in glasses is not completely reached from ab initio point of view and an analysis is done primarily by comparing the IR spectra of these glasses with those of corresponding crystalline analogs for which the structure is completely known.…”

Structural and Elastic Studies of Strontium Doped Manganese Borate Glasses

“…Strength of glass samples can be considerably improved by the doping of suitable proportion of SrO (14). Strontium is a therapeutic ion of particular interest in the field of bone regeneration.…”