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The continuous random network (CRN) model of network glasses is widely accepted as a model for materials such as vitreous silica and amorphous silicon. Although it

has been more than eighty years since the proposal of the CRN, there has not

The continuous random network (CRN) model of network glasses is widely accepted as a model for materials such as vitreous silica and amorphous silicon. Although it

has been more than eighty years since the proposal of the CRN, there has not been conclusive experimental evidence of the structure of glasses and amorphous

materials. This has now changed with the advent of two-dimensional amorphous materials. Now, not only the distribution of rings but the actual atomic ring

structure can be imaged in real space, allowing for greater charicterization of these types of networks. This dissertation reports the first work done

on the modelling of amorphous graphene and vitreous silica bilayers. Models of amorphous graphene have been created using a Monte Carlo bond-switching method

and MD method. Vitreous silica bilayers have been constructed using models of amorphous graphene and the ring statistics of silica bilayers has been studied.
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    • Structural modeling of two dimensional amorphous materials
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    2014
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      Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2014
    • bibliography
      Includes bibliographical references
    • Field of study: Physics

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