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Structural stability of nano-sized crystals of HMX: A molecular dynamics simulation study
, Article Applied Surface Science ; Volume 258, Issue 7 , 2012 , Pages 2226-2230 ; 01694332 (ISSN) ; Parsafar, G. A ; Bayat, Y ; Sharif University of Technology
Abstract
The interaction potential energy and heat of sublimation of nanoparticles of HMX crystal polymorphs are studied by using molecular dynamics methods with a previously developed force field [Bedrov, et al., J. Comput.-Aided Mol. Des. 8 (2001) 77]. Molecular dynamics simulations of nanoparticles with 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, and 100 molecules of HMX are carried out at 300 K. The intermolecular, intramolecular and total interaction energies per mole for the nanoparticles are calculated at 300 K. Then, we have calculated sublimation enthalpy of HMX crystal polymorphs with different sizes. For the all sizes, the β-HMX is found to be the most stable phase, due to having the least total...