Study of environment friendly bismuth incorporated lithium borate glass system for structural, gamma-ray and fast neutron shielding properties.

The present work is aimed at incorporating the heavy metal oxide 'bismuth oxide' in lithium-borate glass system and studying its effect on the glass structure, durability, gamma-ray and neutron shielding ability. The density, XRD, Raman, FTIR, and UV-Visible spectroscopic techniques assisted in understanding the structure of ternary bismuth‑lithium-borate glass system. It has been found that the glass samples are of amorphous nature and structure is mainly built up of BO, BO, BiO BiO units and non-bridging oxygens (NBOs).

Investigation of bismuth borate glass system modified with barium for structural and gamma-ray shielding properties.

In the present paper, transparent and non-toxic BiO-BO glasses doped with BaO have been prepared by the authors which may replace the standard radiation shielding concretes and lead based commercial glasses for gamma ray shielding applications. The effects of BaO on the structural and optical properties of the prepared glass system have been investigated by Raman, FTIR and UV-Visible techniques. It has been observed that barium plays the role of a modifier and it is responsible for conversion of triangular [BO] units to tetrahedral [BO] units along with formation of non-bridging oxygen and increase in ionic character.