Reparameterization of the REBO-CHO potential for graphene oxide molecular dynamics simulations

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作者
Fonseca, Alexandre F. [1 ,2 ]
Lee, Geunsik [3 ]
Borders, Tammie L. [4 ]
Zhang, Hengji [3 ]
Kemper, Travis W. [5 ]
Shan, Tzu-Ray [5 ]
Sinnott, Susan B. [5 ]
Cho, Kyeongjae [2 ,3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Fed Fluminense, ICEx, Dept Fis, BR-27213415 Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
[2] Univ Texas Dallas, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Richardson, TX 75080 USA
[3] Univ Texas Dallas, Dept Phys, Richardson, TX 75080 USA
[4] Univ N Texas, Dept Chem, Denton, TX 76203 USA
[5] Univ Florida, Dept Mat Sci & Engn, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW B | 2011年 / 84卷 / 07期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
REACTIVE FORCE-FIELD; MECHANICAL-PROPERTIES; CARBON NANOTUBE; LAYER GRAPHENE; AB-INITIO; HYDROCARBONS; IMPURITIES; DEPOSITION; REDUCTION; DIAMOND;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevB.84.075460
中图分类号
T [工业技术];
学科分类号
120111 [工业工程];
摘要
The reactive empirical bond order (REBO) potential developed by Brenner et al. [Phys. Rev. B 42, 9458 (1990); J. Phys. Condens. Matter 14, 783 (2002)] for molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of hydrocarbons, and recently extended to include interactions with oxygen atoms by Ni et al. [J. Phys. Condens. Matter 16, 7261 (2004)], is modified for graphene-oxide (GO). Based on density-functional-theory (DFT) calculations, we optimized the REBO-CHO potential (in which CHO denotes carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen) to improve its ability to calculate the binding energy of an oxygen atom to graphene and the equilibrium C-O bond distances. In this work, the approach toward the optimization is based on modifying the bond order term. The modified REBO-CHO potential is applied to investigate the properties of some GO samples.
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