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Doping of glass with lithium ion
Greg Moakes1, Lawrence A Bottomley, Jiri Janata
1School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, USA.
Analytical Chemistry
|April 30, 2005
Abstract:
Doping of glass with lithium ion can be accomplished by exposing the glass to a solution of organic solvent containing a soluble lithium ion salt, such as LiBr and a small amount of water. Under such conditions, the activity of solvated Li+ is very high causing it to partition into the hydrated glass surface. Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and atomic absorption spectroscopy have been used to monitor the partitioning between glass and organic phase, respectively.