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A fully automated approach to calculate the melting temperature of elemental crystals

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Zhu, Li-Fang, Janssen, Jan, Ishibashi, Shoji, Körmann, Fritz, Grabowski, Blazej, Neugebauer, Jörg·2021·Computational Materials Science

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The interface method is a well established approach for predicting melting points of materials using interatomic potentials. However, applying the interface method is tedious and involves significant human intervention. The whole procedure involves several successive tasks: estimate a rough melting point, set up the interface structure, run molecular dynamic calculations and analyze the data. Loop calculations are necessary if the predicted melting point is different from the estimated one by more than a certain convergence criterion, or if full melting/solidification occurs. In this case monitoring the solid–liquid phase transition in the interface structure becomes critical. As different initial random seeds for the molecular dynamic simulations within the interface method induce slightly different melting points, a few ten or hundred interface method calculations with different random seeds are necessary for performing a statistical analysis on these melting points. Considering all these technical details, the work load for manually executing and combining the various involved scripts and programs quickly becomes prohibitive. To simplify and automatize the whole procedure, we have implemented the interface method into pyiron (http://pyiron.org). Our fully automatized procedure allows to efficiently and precisely predict melting points of stable unaries represented by arbitrary potentials with only two user-specified parameters (interatomic potential file and element). For metastable or dynamically unstable unary phases, the crystal structure needs to be provided as an additional parameter. We have applied our automatized approach on fcc Al, Ni, dynamically unstable bcc Ti and hcp Mg and employed a large set of available interatomic potentials. Melting points for classical interatomic potentials of these metals have been obtained with a numerical precision well below 1 K.

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Authors
Zhu, L.-F., Janssen, J., Ishibashi, S., Körmann, F., Grabowski, B., & Neugebauer, J.
Affiliations
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Nachhaltige Materialien (DE)
  • University of Stuttgart (DE)
Corresponding author
Zhu, Li-Fang
Venue
Computational Materials Science
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-02
Volume
187
Pages
110065
ISSN
0927-0256 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3089505274
Cited by
47
References
46
Citations by year
2026: 10 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 6
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2.21
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journal article
Language
en
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  • Computational Materials Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Research Repository (Delft University of Technology) (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (405621217)
  • Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
  • Stichting voor de Technische Wetenschappen (15707)
  • Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
  • Horizon 2020
  • European Research Council (639211)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Thermodynamic and Structural Properties of Metals and Alloys
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › nanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
Keywords
melting point prediction, interface method, elemental crystals, pyiron, workflow automation, interatomic potentials, melting, random seed sensitivity, metastable phases, aluminum, nickel, titanium, magnesium, face-centered cubic metals, body-centered cubic metals, hexagonal close-packed metals

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