Multibody Potentials Used
"Empirical Three-Body Potential for Vitreous Silica", B. P. Feuston and S. H. Garofalini, J. Chem. Phys., 89 (1988) 5818 (note error in Table I, where beta headings are mixed)
"The Structure of Sodium Trisilicate Glass Via a Molecular Dynamics Simulation Employing Multibody Potentials", R. G. Newell, B. P. Feuston, and S. H. Garofalini, J. Materials Research, 4 (1989) 434.
"Oligomerization in Silica Sols", B. P. Feuston and S. H. Garofalini, J. Phys. Chem. 94 (1990) 5352.
"Molecular Dynamics Simulations of a-alumina and g-alumina Surfaces", S. Blonski and S. H. Garofalini, Surf. Sci. 295 (1993) 263 (this has best compilation of parameters)
(check Prof. Garofaliniís resume for more listings of applications of the potential- see link homepage)
Two-Body Term
Three-Body Term
Tetrahedral
Tetra + Octahedral
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