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New interaction potentials for borate glasses with mixed network formers.

Siddharth Sundararaman¹, Liping Huang¹, Simona Ispas²

¹Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York 12180, USA.

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|March 16, 2020

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Area of Science:

Materials Science
Computational Chemistry
Glass Science

Background:

Developing accurate interatomic potentials is crucial for simulating glass properties.
Existing models for aluminosilicate glasses require adaptation to include boron's unique network-forming role.

Purpose of the Study:

To extend an existing optimization scheme for effective potentials to incorporate boron.
To create reliable interaction parameters for simulating borate-containing glasses.

Main Methods:

Adapted an optimization scheme using ab initio molecular dynamics simulations for liquid radial distribution functions.
Incorporated experimental data (density, coordination, elastic modulus) of glasses at room temperature.
Validated potentials against experimental and simulation data for various glass compositions.

Main Results:

The developed interaction potentials accurately reproduce the structure and coordination of binary alkali borates.
Mechanical properties of binary alkali borates are reliably predicted.
The parameters demonstrate transferability, enabling accurate simulations of mixed boroaluminate and borosilicate glasses.

Conclusions:

The adapted optimization scheme successfully generates effective potentials for borate glasses.
The new potentials provide a reliable tool for predicting the properties of a wide range of borate-containing glass systems.
This work advances the computational modeling of complex oxide glasses.