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Density Functional Theory is used to study water, methanol, ethanol, TMOS, and TEOS molecules and the most important silica clusters participating in sol-gel processes. Calculated bond lengths, bond angles and electric dipole moments compare well with experimental data. The energy of these molecules is reported and used to discuss the energetics of the hydrolysis and condensation reactions. Molecular Dynamics is employed to simulate liquid water, methanol, ethanol, TMOS, TEOS and experimental sol-gel solutions. Calculated densities and enthalpies of vaporisation compare well with experimental data. Preliminary results are presented for MD simulations of sol-gel solutions.
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Pereira, J.C.G., Catlow, C.R.A., Price, G.D. et al. Atomistic modeling of silica based sol-gel processes. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 8, 55–58 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02436817
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