ISSN 0862-5468 (Print), ISSN 1804-5847 (online) 

Ceramics-Silikáty 52, (2) 61 - 65 (2008)


THERMOCHEMICAL MODELLING AND AB INITIO MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF CALCIUM ALUMINATE GLASSES
 
Liška Marek 1, Macháček Jan 2, Perichta Peter 1, Gedeon Ondřej 2, Pilát Jan 3
 
1 Vitrum Laugaricio, Joint Glass Center of Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of SAS, Alexander Dubček University of Trenčín and RONA, j.s.c., Študentská 2, Trenčín, 911 50, Slovak Republic
2 Department of Glass and Ceramics, Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Technická 5, 166 28 Prague, Czech Republic
3 Masaryk’s Secondary School of Chemistry, Křemencová 12, 116 28 Prague, Czech Republic

Keywords: Aluminate glass, Ab initio molecular dynamics, Thermodynamic model, Structure
 

Simple thermodynamic model, without any adjustable parameter, and ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) were used for the structural study of binary calcium aluminate glass xCaO·(1 - x)Al₂O₃, x = 1/3, 1/2, and 2/3. Both methods provided mutually comparable quantitative results in a reasonable agreement with the accessible experimental data and previous results of classical MD simulation. The obtained compositional trends are in agreement with the concept of the increase of Al/O coordination number (accompanied with formation of Al-triclusters) with the decreasing CaO content in the per-aluminous region.


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