Nanocrystalline

SiO₂ with 21 Å α-quartz grains: grains are now large enough that only a couple fit in the 40 × 40 × 40 Å box. The crystalline tiles dominate the structure; only thin seams of disordered atoms remain where rotated grains meet.

Parameters

cell.generate(
    shell_target,
    num_steps=250,
    grain_size=27.0,
    bond_weight=1.5,
    angle_weight=1.2,
    repulsion_weight=1.2,
    hard_core_scale=0.8,
    nonbond_push_scale=0.7,
    displacement_sigma=0.01,
)

Relaxation trajectory

g3 distribution