title: Ab initio based force field and molecular dynamics simulations of crystalline TATB.
abstract: An all-atom force field for 1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene (TATB) is presented. The classical intermolecular interaction potential for TATB is based on single-point energies determined from high-level ab initio calculations of TATB dimers. The newly developed potential function is used to examine bulk crystalline TATB via molecular dynamics simulations. The isobaric thermal expansion and isothermal compression under hydrostatic pressures obtained from the molecular dynamics simulations are in good agreement with experiment. The calculated volume-temperature expansion is almost one dimensional along the c crystallographic axis, whereas under compression, all three unit cell axes participate, albeit unequally.
authors.affiliation: University of California Chemistry and Material Science Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA. gee10@llnl.gov
authors.forename: Richard H
authors.initials: RH
authors.lastname: Gee
authors.forename: Szczepan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roszak
authors.forename: Krishnan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Balasubramanian
authors.forename: Laurence E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Fried
mesh_terms: D002627:Chemistry, Physical / Q000379:methods; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D019281:Dimerization; D008958:Models, Molecular; D015233:Models, Statistical; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D011312:Pressure; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics; D014301:Trinitrobenzenes / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D014301:Trinitrobenzenes; C512607:1,3,5-triamino-2,4,6-trinitrobenzene