Polarization effects in ionic solids and melts

M Salanne, PA Madden - Molecular Physics, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
Ionic solids and melts are compounds in which the interactions are dominated by
electrostatic effects. However, the polarization of the ions also plays an important role in …

Relaxation and physical aging in network glasses: a review

M Micoulaut - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent progress in the description of glassy relaxation and aging are reviewed for the wide
class of network-forming materials such as GeO 2, Ge x Se 1− x, silicates (SiO 2–Na 2 O) or …

Structure and properties of densified silica glass: characterizing the order within disorder

Y Onodera, S Kohara, PS Salmon, A Hirata… - NPG Asia …, 2020 - nature.com
The broken symmetry in the atomic-scale ordering of glassy versus crystalline solids leads to
a daunting challenge to provide suitable metrics for describing the order within disorder …

Development of Deep Potentials of Molten MgCl2–NaCl and MgCl2–KCl Salts Driven by Machine Learning

T Xu, X Li, Y Wang, Z Tang - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023 - ACS Publications
Molten MgCl2-based chlorides have emerged as potential thermal storage and heat transfer
materials due to high thermal stabilities and lower costs. In this work, deep potential …

A holistic approach for elucidating local structure, dynamics, and speciation in molten salts with high structural disorder

S Roy, Y Liu, M Topsakal, E Dias… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
To examine ion solvation, exchange, and speciation for minority components in molten salts
(MS) typically found as corrosion products, we propose a multimodal approach combining …

High-Pressure Transformation of Glass from a Tetrahedral to an Octahedral Network: A Joint Approach Using Neutron Diffraction and Molecular Dynamics

A Zeidler, K Wezka, RF Rowlands, DAJ Whittaker… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
A combination of in situ high-pressure neutron diffraction at pressures up to 17.5 (5) GPa
and molecular dynamics simulations employing a many-body interatomic potential model is …

Joint diffraction and modeling approach to the structure of liquid alumina

LB Skinner, AC Barnes, PS Salmon, L Hennet… - Physical Review B …, 2013 - APS
The structure of liquid alumina at a temperature∼ 2400 K near its melting point was
measured using neutron and high-energy x-ray diffraction by employing containerless …

Understanding diffraction patterns of glassy, liquid and amorphous materials via persistent homology analyses

Y Onodera, S Kohara, S Tahara, A Masuno… - Journal of the Ceramic …, 2019 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The absence of translational symmetry, and the very much present complexity in the
structure of glassy, liquid, and amorphous materials make glass science a challenging field …

Unraveling Local Structure of Molten Salts via X-ray Scattering, Raman Spectroscopy, and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

S Roy, M Brehm, S Sharma, F Wu… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, we resolve a long-standing issue concerning the local structure of molten
MgCl2 by employing a multimodal approach, including X-ray scattering and Raman …

Atomic and electronic structures of an extremely fragile liquid

S Kohara, J Akola, L Patrikeev, M Ropo… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
The structure of high-temperature liquids is an important topic for understanding the fragility
of liquids. Here we report the structure of a high-temperature non-glass-forming oxide liquid …