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Computational insights into the structure of barium titanosilicate glasses
Author(s) -
Ghardi El Mehdi,
Atila Achraf,
Badawi Michael,
Hasnaoui Abdellatif,
Ouaskit Said
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of the american ceramic society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 196
eISSN - 1551-2916
pISSN - 0002-7820
DOI - 10.1111/jace.16536
Subject(s) - materials science , coordination number , barium , ceramic , moduli , mineralogy , chemical physics , composite material , ion , chemistry , physics , metallurgy , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
Understanding the role of TiO 2 in BaO‐TiO 2 ‐SiO 2 (BTS) glasses is one of the keys to develop new glasses and glass‐ceramics for different technological applications. For the first time, molecular dynamics simulations were conducted to get new insights into the atomic structure of the BTS glasses and their elastic moduli. Various compositions are studied where SiO 2 have been replaced by TiO 2 . The calculated mechanical properties of our models are observed to depend linearly on TiO 2 content. However, the structure‐induced changes are far from such dependence. The structural results indicate that BTS glasses are mainly built on four types of basic units: SiO 4 , TiO 4 , TiO 5 and TiO 6 . This high structural heterogeneity induced by the three coordination states of Ti is found to have an impact on the medium range order by increasing the rings number, the polymerized regions, and by transforming Q 3 ‐ Q 4 and Q 2 without neglecting the increase in Q 5 and Q 6 species. Those structural modifications of the BTS glass network features have been found to be consistent with available experimental data.