Abstract The structure of molten LaBr3 was investigated by X-ray diffraction and molecular dynamics simu-lations. It was found that the short range structure of molten LaBr3 is very similar to that of molten LaCl 3 , except for some structural features such as interionic distances based on the difference of anion sizes. In the MD simulation, the shear viscosity of molten LaBr3 was estimated from the structurally-optimized MD calculations.
Bismuth-containing borate glasses, xBi2O3-(1-x)B2O3, were synthesized in the broad composition range 0.20≤x≤0.80 by melting in Pt crucibles and splat-quenching between two metal blocks. Infrared reflectance spectra, measured in the range...