Recent advances in corrosion science applicable to disposal of high-level nuclear waste

GS Frankel, JD Vienna, J Lian, X Guo, S Gin… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
High-level radioactive waste is accumulating at temporary storage locations around the
world and will eventually be placed in deep geological repositories. The waste forms and …

[HTML][HTML] Interatomic potentials for oxide glasses: Past, present, and future

A Pedone, M Bertani, L Brugnoli, A Pallini - Journal of Non-Crystalline …, 2022 - Elsevier
The continuous development and improvement of interatomic potential models for oxide
glasses have made classical molecular dynamics a powerful computational technique …

BO3/BO4 Intermixing in Borosilicate Glass Networks Probed by Double-Quantum 11B NMR: What Factors Govern BO4–BO4 Formation?

P Lv, B Stevensson, Y Yu, T Wang… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We examine the borate group intermixing in a series of 25 borosilicate (BS) glasses from the
[0.5 M (2) O–0.5 Na2O]–B2O3–SiO2 systems with M={Li, K, Rb, Mg, Ca} along with ternary …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of the cation field strength on physical properties and structures of alkali and alkaline-earth borosilicate glasses

P Lv, C Wang, B Stevensson, Y Yu, T Wang… - Ceramics International, 2022 - Elsevier
The impact of the cation field strength (CFS) of the glass network-modifier cations on the
structure and properties of borosilicate glasses (BS) were examined for a large ensemble of …

Structural origins of the mixed alkali effect in alkali aluminosilicate glasses: molecular dynamics study and its assessment

F Lodesani, MC Menziani, H Hijiya, Y Takato, S Urata… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The comprehension of the nonlinear effects provided by mixed alkali effect (MAE) in oxide
glasses is useful to optimize glass compositions to achieve specific properties that depend …

Improved empirical force field for multicomponent oxide glasses and crystals

M Bertani, MC Menziani, A Pedone - Physical Review Materials, 2021 - APS
In this paper, the self-consistent PMMCS force fields (FFs)[Pedone et al., J. Phys. Chem. B
110, 11780 (2006) 10.1021/jp0611018] widely used for the simulation of a large variety of …

Structural role of sodium in borosilicate, phosphosilicate, and borophosphosilicate glasses unveiled by solid-state NMR and MD simulations

Y Yu, B Stevensson, M Eden - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We present a comprehensive study of the Na environments in a large ensemble of 32
silicate-based glass compositions from the borosilicate, phosphosilicate, and …

A comparative study of the effectiveness of empirical potentials for molecular dynamics simulations of borosilicate glasses

MI Tuheen, L Deng, J Du - Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite their practical importance, atomistic modeling of B 2 O 3 containing glasses have
been challenging due to the lack of reliable empirical potentials. Fortunately, a few recent …

[HTML][HTML] Probing oxide-based glass structures by solid-state NMR: Opportunities and limitations

M Edén - Journal of Magnetic Resonance Open, 2023 - Elsevier
This Primer critically reviews the possibilities and limitations of probing the short-range
structure of an oxide-based glass by routine magic-angle spinning (MAS) or triple-quantum …

Effect of modifier cation field strength on the structures of magnesium oxide containing aluminoborosilicate glasses

MI Tuheen, J Du - International Journal of Applied Glass …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Network glass structures are commonly characterized by the network formers and their
linkage but modifiers can also play an important role on various features of glass structures …