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Development of the Combinatorial Glass Formation Tester

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2011

Satoru Inoue ,
Shin-ichi Todoroki ,
Takehisa Matsumoto ,
Takaharu Hondo ,
Tetsuo Araki  and
Toshio Tsuchiya
Satoru Inoue
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
Shin-ichi Todoroki
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
Takehisa Matsumoto
Affiliation:
Advanced Materials Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
Takaharu Hondo
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Ymazaki 2641, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan.
Tetsuo Araki
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Ymazaki 2641, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan.
Toshio Tsuchiya
Affiliation:
Dept. of Materials Science and Technology, Science University of Tokyo, Ymazaki 2641, Noda, Chiba 278-8510, Japan.
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Abstract

The combinatorial glass formation tester has been developed to determine the glass forming regions as quickly as possible. The 24 glass batches of about 1g were put into each carbon crucible on a carbon holder and heated in an electric furnace filled with dry nitrogen gas. After about a half an hour heating, the crucibles were taken out from the furnace and moved into the cooling chamber purged with dry nitrogen gas. The holder and the crucibles were moved on to a cooling stage to be cooled down quickly with a water flowing jacket together with nitrogen gas blowing. The time interval after taking out of the crucibles till the placement on the cooling stage was shortened as much as possible, resulting to be 10sec. The temperature of the melt in the crucibles was measured with an optical pyrometer to estimate the cooling rate. The top view of the crucibles on the holder was taken with a CCD camera during cooling. The CCD figures were stored on a computer for the judgments of the transparency of the samples in the crucibles to compile a glass forming region. The glass formation tester can manage 24 glass melting tests every 1 hours. In other words, the tester can produce at least 192 glass samples (24 x 8=192) within a day working time. The speed was roughly 100 times larger than the case of manual operation.

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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 700: Symposium S – Combinatorial and Artificial Intelligence Methods in Materials Science , 2001 , S6.6
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2002

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