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Title: Development of boron oxide potentials for computer simulations of multicomponent oxide glasses

Abstract

Abstract Molecular dynamics and related atomistic computer simulations are effective ways in studying the structures and structure–property relations of glass materials. However, simulations of boron oxide (B 2 O 3 )‐containing oxide glasses pose a challenge due to the lack of reliable empirical potentials. This paper reports development of a set of partial charge pairwise composition‐dependent potentials for boron‐related interactions that enable simulations of multicomponent borosilicate glasses, together with some of the existing parameters. This set of potentials was tested in sodium borate glasses and sodium borosilicate glasses and it is shown capable to describe boron coordination change with glass composition in wide composition ranges. Structure features such as boron N 4 value, density, Q n species distribution, fraction of non‐bridging oxygen around boron and silicon, total correlation function, and bond angle distribution function were calculated and compared with available experimental data. Mechanical properties of the simulated glasses calculated with the new potential also show good agreement with experiments. Therefore, this new set of potential can be used to simulate boron oxide‐containing multicomponent glasses including those with wide industrial and technology applications.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of North Texas Denton Texas
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1476675
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Journal Name:
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Journal of the American Ceramic Society Journal Volume: 102 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 0002-7820
Publisher:
Wiley-Blackwell
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United States
Language:
English

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Deng, Lu, and Du, Jincheng. Development of boron oxide potentials for computer simulations of multicomponent oxide glasses. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1111/jace.16082.
Deng, Lu, & Du, Jincheng. Development of boron oxide potentials for computer simulations of multicomponent oxide glasses. United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.16082
Deng, Lu, and Du, Jincheng. Mon . "Development of boron oxide potentials for computer simulations of multicomponent oxide glasses". United States. https://doi.org/10.1111/jace.16082.
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title = {Development of boron oxide potentials for computer simulations of multicomponent oxide glasses},
author = {Deng, Lu and Du, Jincheng},
abstractNote = {Abstract Molecular dynamics and related atomistic computer simulations are effective ways in studying the structures and structure–property relations of glass materials. However, simulations of boron oxide (B 2 O 3 )‐containing oxide glasses pose a challenge due to the lack of reliable empirical potentials. This paper reports development of a set of partial charge pairwise composition‐dependent potentials for boron‐related interactions that enable simulations of multicomponent borosilicate glasses, together with some of the existing parameters. This set of potentials was tested in sodium borate glasses and sodium borosilicate glasses and it is shown capable to describe boron coordination change with glass composition in wide composition ranges. Structure features such as boron N 4 value, density, Q n species distribution, fraction of non‐bridging oxygen around boron and silicon, total correlation function, and bond angle distribution function were calculated and compared with available experimental data. Mechanical properties of the simulated glasses calculated with the new potential also show good agreement with experiments. Therefore, this new set of potential can be used to simulate boron oxide‐containing multicomponent glasses including those with wide industrial and technology applications.},
doi = {10.1111/jace.16082},
journal = {Journal of the American Ceramic Society},
number = 5,
volume = 102,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Mon Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}

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