CVFF Potential parameters

Hello everyone,

I have made a tobermorite structure in materials studio transformed the file to lammps readable via msi2lmp tool when an error occurred saying: torsion parameters not found for ob-st-oh-ho.

Here, ob = bridging oxygen, st = silicon in tetrahedron, oh = oxygen bonded in water, ho = hydrogen bonded in water.

My question is, if I want to parametrize the CVFF potential for my usage, where do researchers get these parameters from? Any direction would be immensely helpful.

Regards,

Baig

Hello everyone,

I have made a tobermorite structure in materials studio transformed the
file to lammps readable via msi2lmp tool when an error occurred saying:
torsion parameters not found for ob-st-oh-ho.

Here, ob = bridging oxygen, st = silicon in tetrahedron, oh = oxygen
bonded in water, ho = hydrogen bonded in water.

My question is, if I want to parametrize the CVFF potential for my usage,
where do researchers get these parameters from? Any direction would be
immensely helpful.

​look up the publication that describes the CVFF force field and it will
contain the recipe for finding those​. mind you, force field
parameterization can be a very tedious process that combines (sometimes)
vague rationalizations of simple concepts, with tedious parameter sweeps
and testing simulations as well as a good deal of intuition and
(occationally) black art.

axel.