T. J. Loretz

Composition-Dependent Density Modeling of Chalcogenide Glasses: Empirical Evidence for Influential van der Waals Interactions and the Central Role of Lone-Pair Electrons

We present an expanded empirical framework for predicting the density of chalcogenide glasses (ChGs) and use it to examine atomic bonding interpretations across a broad compositional landscape. Building on our earlier methodology and dataset work, we compile 468 measured densities spanning 60 elemental families and 19...