Neste trabalho foi investigada uma mudança na linha base observada em curvas de calorimetria exploratória diferencial em um trabalho onde microesferas de vidros aluminossilicatos contendo Ho foram estudados para a aplicação em radioterapia interna seletiva para o tratamento de carcinoma hepatocelular. Os vidros com composição nominal 53,7 SiO2 .10,5 Al2O3 . 35,8 MgO em %mol foram produzidos pelo método de fusão tradicional. As fritas obtidas foram moídas e peneiradas na faixa de 45 a 63 μm. O material foi utilizado para produzir microesferas pelo método de esferolização por queda gravitacional. O pó de vidro e as microesferas foram caracterizados por espectrometria de fluorescência de raios X, difração de laser, difração de raios X, calorimetria exploratória diferencial, análise térmica diferencial, termogravimetria, espectrometria de massa e microscopia eletrônica de varredura. Após as análises térmicas foram formadas pastilhas nos cadinhos que foram analisadas por microscopia eletrônica de varredura, difração de raios X e picnometria a gás He. A mudança na linha base foi associada ao processo de sinterização por fluxo viscoso e ocorre devido a diminuição do fluxo de calor detectado devido à retração da amostra. Outros processos como cristalização concomitante com a sinterização também foram estudados. / In this work a difference in the baseline in differential scanning calorimetry analyses, observed in a work where aluminosilicate glasses microspheres containing Ho were studied for application in selective internal radiotherapy as hepatocellular carcinoma treatment, was studied. The glasses with nominal composition 53,7 SiO2 .10,5 Al2O3 . 35,8 MgO in %mol were produced from traditional melting. The frits obtained were milled and sieved in the range of 45 a 63 μm. The material was used to produce glass microspheres by the gravitational fall method. The glass powder and the microspheres were characterized by X ray fluorescence spectrometry, laser diffraction, X ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry, differential thermal analysis, thermogravimetry, mass spectrometry, and scanning electron microscopy. After the thermal analyses, pellets were formed in the crucibles and were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy, X ray diffraction, and He picnometry. The difference in the baseline was associated to the viscous flow sintering process and happens because of the decrease in the detected heat flow due to the sample shrinkage. Other events as concurrent crystallization with the sintering process were also studied.

Les matrices vitreuses aluminosilicatées de lanthanides {SiO2 –Al2O3 – (CaO) – Y2O3 – La2O3} constituent, une matrice potentielle d’intérêt nucléaire, dans le cadre du stockage des déchets des actinides. Alors que de nombreuses études sont encore menées pour établir leurs propriétés macroscopiques (durabilité, mécanismes de vitrification, etc…), nous nous sommes attachés à décrire l’environnement proche des noyaux qui composent le réseau, c'est-à-dire leur structure à une échelle locale. Les verres aluminosilicatés sont constitués de tétraèdres d’aluminium et de silicium. Plus précisément, ils sont constitués d’entités Qn(mAl) silicium et d’entités qn(mSi) aluminium. Cependant, il est rare d’aboutir à une description en ces termes. La Résonance Magnétique Nucléaire haute résolution solide (RMN MAS 27Al et 29Si) est un des moyens d’y parvenir. Nous proposons ici le développement de séquences d’impulsions permettant l’identification de ces unités puis la description de leurs connectivités via leurs liaisons chimiques, basées sur le filtrage des cohérences MultiQuanta associées aux couplages scalaires J2 (Si-O-Si) et J2 (Si-O-Al). Cette approche RMN permet donc d’affiner la compréhension des réseaux aluminosilicatés quels qu’ils soient. Couplé à la spectroscopie RAMAN, elle a pu ensuite nous servir comme référence pour établir la structure et le comportement à long terme de ces matrices, suite à des expériences de lixiviation statique et d’irradiation a pratiquées au cyclotron du CEMHTI. / Aluminosilicate glasses of rare earth {SiO2 –Al2O3 – (CaO) – Y2O3 – La2O3} can be considered like a potential matrix of nuclear waste. This type of glass appears to be suitable matrix for the specific immobilization of trivalent actinides. Whereas many studies dealt with the macroscopic properties of these matrix (durability, mechanism, etc…), we investigate here the local environment surrounding the nucleus constituting the vitreous network. Thus, we can say that we investigate the local structure of the glass. Aluminosilicate glasses are constituted with silicon and aluminium tetrahedra. They are more especially based on a mixture of silicon Qn(mAl) and aluminium qn(mSi) units. Up to now, few experiments allow to describe the vitreous network with this terminology. A solution is the High Resolution Solid State NMR : 27Al and 29Si 1D or 2D MAS NMR experiments. We proposed here to provide and improve NMR pulse sequence to evidence NMR signatures of chemically bounded Al-O-Si and Si-O-Si molecular motifs and to establish an approximate picture of medium range order, thanks to 27Al/29Si heteronuclear and 29Si/29Si homonuclear NMR experiments associated to MultiQuantum filtering based on indirect scalar coupling J2 Al-O-Si/J2 (Si-O-Si) and. Combining RAMAN spectroscopy, Spin counting and MultiQuantum filtering allow establishing an approximate and new picture of medium range order in aluminosilicate compounds. Thus, they offer a reference to describe the changes in the structure and the long term behavior of our aluminosilicate glasses of rare earth, induced by static lixiviation and a irradiation practiced to cyclotron in CEMHTI laboratory .

Neste trabalho foi investigada uma mudança na linha base observada em curvas de calorimetria exploratória diferencial em um trabalho onde microesferas de vidros aluminossilicatos contendo Ho foram estudados para a aplicação em radioterapia interna seletiva para o tratamento de carcinoma hepatocelular. Os vidros com composição nominal 53,7 SiO2 .10,5 Al2O3 . 35,8 MgO em %mol foram produzidos pelo método de fusão tradicional. As fritas obtidas foram moídas e peneiradas na faixa de 45 a 63 μm. O material foi utilizado para produzir microesferas pelo método de esferolização por queda gravitacional. O pó de vidro e as microesferas foram caracterizados por espectrometria de fluorescência de raios X, difração de laser, difração de raios X, calorimetria exploratória diferencial, análise térmica diferencial, termogravimetria, espectrometria de massa e microscopia eletrônica de varredura. Após as análises térmicas foram formadas pastilhas nos cadinhos que foram analisadas por microscopia eletrônica de varredura, difração de raios X e picnometria a gás He. A mudança na linha base foi associada ao processo de sinterização por fluxo viscoso e ocorre devido a diminuição do fluxo de calor detectado devido à retração da amostra. Outros processos como cristalização concomitante com a sinterização também foram estudados. / In this work a difference in the baseline in differential scanning calorimetry analyses, observed in a work where aluminosilicate glasses microspheres containing Ho were studied for application in selective internal radiotherapy as hepatocellular carcinoma treatment, was studied. The glasses with nominal composition 53,7 SiO2 .10,5 Al2O3 . 35,8 MgO in %mol were produced from traditional melting. The frits obtained were milled and sieved in the range of 45 a 63 μm. The material was used to produce glass microspheres by the gravitational fall method. The glass powder and the microspheres were characterized by X ray fluorescence spectrometry, laser diffraction, X ray diffraction, differential scanning calorimetry, differential thermal analysis, thermogravimetry, mass spectrometry, and scanning electron microscopy. After the thermal analyses, pellets were formed in the crucibles and were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy, X ray diffraction, and He picnometry. The difference in the baseline was associated to the viscous flow sintering process and happens because of the decrease in the detected heat flow due to the sample shrinkage. Other events as concurrent crystallization with the sintering process were also studied.

Cette thèse porte sur l’étude du processus de cristallisation de verres et l’élaboration de vitrocéramiques transparentes dans le visible. Ce travail a permis d’élaborer plusieurs vitrocéramiques complètement cristallisées et transparentes, ce qui constitue un résultat exceptionnel pour ce type de matériaux qui perd habituellement la transparence lors de la cristallisation. Ces matériaux originaux et novateurs ont fait l’objet d’un brevet sur des "Céramiques transparentes" (dépôt en France N° 1161025 et extension internationale PCT N° EP2012/074171) et de plusieurs articles (cf. page 162). Plusieurs verres dans les systèmes oxydes de terres rares-oxydes d’alcalino-terreux-Al2O3-SiO2 ont été élaborés au moyen d’un lévitateur aérodynamique couple a un chauffage par laser puis étudiés. Une recherche de la composition optimale du verre d’aluminosilicate d’yttrium parent qui permettrait d’avoir un maximum de cristaux de YAG sans formation d’impuretés lors de la cristallisation a été menée. L’étude de la cristallisation du YAG a partir des verres d’aluminosilicates d’yttrium choisis, réalisée principalement par RMN et diffraction des rayons X, a montré que les ions de silicium initialement présents dans la matrice vitreuse se trouvent incorporés dans les cristaux de YAG formes, en substitution des ions d’aluminium des sites tétraédriques. Les conséquences structurales de cette incorporation dans le YAG ont été étudiées. En particulier, la réduction de la maille cubique du YAG et des liaisons des sites tétraédriques a été mise en évidence par DRX et affinement Rietveld. Par RMN, la présence d’aluminium en coordinence IV, V et VI a été détectée dans le verre parent. Pour ce système, il est remarquable que la cristallisation du verre d’aluminate d’yttrium puisse avoir lieu au-dessous de sa température de transition vitreuse. Ce phénomène rarement rapporté pourrait être expliqué par la tendance élevée du verre à cristalliser et par la capacité de Si4+ à s’incorporer dans les cristaux de YAG comme cette étude le démontre. L’avancement de la cristallisation par recuit du verre au-dessous de Tg a été suivi ainsi que l’absorbance et la diffusion de l’irradiation IR par les vitrocéramiques en se basant sur le modèle de Rayleigh-Guns-Debye. Cette étude a révélé l’influence de la différence de l’indice de réfraction entre le verre et les cristaux sur la diffusion de la lumière. Les images MET et MEB de ces vitrocéramiques montrent des cristaux de YAG de tailles comprises entre 500 nm et 1300 nm. La cristallisation d’une autre famille de verres de terres rares a été étudiée. Il s’agit de verres d’aluminate de lanthane et de borate de lanthane. Dans les deux cas, une cristallisation démarrant à partir de la surface a été observée et étudiée. La cristallisation des phases LaAlO3 et LaBO3 dans ces verres a été suivie par DRX (Haute Température). L’ajout de SiO2 à la composition La2O3-Al2O3 a été nécessaire pour élaborer un verre avec un four classique. Une étude de cristallisation poussée a été également menée sur de nouveaux verres d’aluminates d’alcalinoterreux. Cette étude a compris une caractérisation des vitrocéramiques formées ainsi que la résolution de la structure de deux nouveaux polymorphes de BaAl4O7 formés par cristallisation des verres en se servant de la diffraction électronique, neutronique et synchrotron. Une étude par RMN de l’évolution de l’environnement de l’oxygène durant le recuit a été réalisée et a permis de mettre en évidence la présence des entités d’oxygène tri-coordinées dans les verres d’aluminate de baryum. Ce travail nous a finalement permis d’élaborer plusieurs vitrocéramiques complètement cristallisées et transparentes, ce qui constitue un résultat exceptionnel. La luminescence de ces vitrocéramiques a été caractérisée et les raisons de leur transparence sont discutées à la lumière de leurs microstructures. / This thesis concerns the crystallization and the structural study of different alumino-silicate glasses. This study has led to several completely crystallized and transparent glass-ceramics, which is an original result for this type of material that usually loses transparency during crystallization. These innovative materials were the subject of a patent entitled “Transparent ceramics” (French deposit number: N° 1161025 and international extension number : PCT N° EP2012/074171) and different articles (cf. page 162). Numerous glasses in the systems rare earth oxides, alkaline earth oxides-Al2O3-SiO2 were prepared by an aerodynamic levitator coupled to a laser heating system and studied. The study of the YAG crystallization from the yttrium alumino-silicate glasses was achieved mainly by double resonance 27Al/29Si NMR spectroscopy and by (lab and synchrotron) X-ray diffraction. This study showed that the silicon ions that are initially present in the glassy matrix are incorporated during crystallization in the formed YAG crystals on the 4-fold coordination Al site. The structural consequences of this incorporation were studied. In particular, the reduction of the YAG cubic lattice and the bonds of the tetrahedral sites have been evidenced. Upon post synthesis annealing, the glass was observed to exhibit crystallization below the glass transition temperature. This unusual behaviour was examined using XRD and infrared spectroscopy to follow crystallinity and optical absorbance as a function of annealing treatment. This rarely reported phenomenon could be explained by the high tendency of our glass to crystallize compared to glasses elaborated by classical furnaces and by the ability of Si4+ to be accommodated into the YAG crystal structure as we have demonstrated. This study also revealed the influence of the refractive index difference between the glass and the crystals on the scattering of light. TEM and SEM images show that the YAG crystals sizes range between 500 nm and 1300 nm. Furthermore, the crystallization of a family of lanthanum aluminate and lanthanum borate glasses was studied. In both cases, the crystallization started from the surface. The formation of LaAlO3 LaBO3 phases in these glasses was followed by XRD (High Temperature). The addition of SiO2 to the Al2O3-La2O3 composition was found necessary for the vitrification with a conventional oven. Finally, a crystallization study was also conducted on new alkaline-earth aluminate glasses. This study included a characterization of the parent glasses with the formed glass-ceramics and the structure resolution of two new polymorphs of BaAl4O7 formed by crystallization, using electron neutron and synchrotron diffraction. An NMR study of the environment evolution of the oxygen during annealing was performed. This allowed to evidence the presence of tri-coordinated oxygen entities in the parent glasses. This work has finally allowed us to develop fully crystallized and transparent glass-ceramics, which is an exceptional result. The luminescence of these glass-ceramics was characterized and the reasons for their transparency were discussed in light of their microstructures.