Аннотация: Atomistic semi-empirical potentials were applied to calculate the
structural, thermodynamic, elastic properties and phase equilibrium of
MgO-CaO, MgO-MnO, MnO-CaO, CaO-SrO, BaO-SrO disodered
solid solutions by using of the GULP code [1]. The calculations were
performed with partially covalent approximations for 7:1, 3:1, 1:1,
1:3, 1:7 randomly mixed cation compositions. It was used 256-ion
primitive supercell with quadrupled parameters of the unit cell for all
compositions. It was demonstrated that such supercell allows to
imitate random distribution of cations.
On the basis of the calculated values of free energy the component
fields of stability, mixing limits and critical temperature were
predicted. The values are in a good agreement within the temperature
range 298 – 1800 K with the available data and results of other
theoretical investigation. For 1:1 composition the analyses of the local
structure (interatomic distances and atomic displacements) from
regular positions structure was perfomed. In particular, the
insignificant shifts of cations and the essential shifts of anions from
the initial ideal positions of the supercell were established [2], [3].
[1] Gale J., GULP user manual, Royal institution and Imperial College,
London, 1992.
[2] Urusov V.S., Petrova T.G., Eremin N.N., D. Akad. Nauk,
2002, 47, 811.
[3] Urusov V.S., Petrova T.G., Eremin N.N., D. Akad. Nauk,
2003, 392, 469.
Keywords: solid solution, computer modeling, mixing properties