Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Calcium Silicate Intergranular Films between Silicon Nitride Crystals

Journal of the American Ceramic Society

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1741-1752

  Garofalini, Stephen H ^a   Luo, Weiwei ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; SILICON NITRIDE;

SILICON NITRIDE CRYSTALS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0242303082     PISSN: 00027820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1151-2916.2003.tb03549.x     Document Type: Article

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