Calculation update! New properties have been added to the website for dislocation monopole core structures, dynamic relaxes of both crystal and liquid phases, and melting temperatures! Currently, the results for these properties predominately focus on EAM-style potentials, but the results will be updated for other potentials as the associated calculations finish. Feel free to give us feedback on the new properties so we can improve their representations as needed.
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Citation: R.K. Koju, Y. Li, and Y. Mishin (2026), "Interatomic potentials for platinum", Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering34(5), 055003. DOI: 10.1088/1361-651x/ae7a9c.
Abstract: We present two new interatomic potentials for platinum (Pt) in angular-dependent potential (ADP) and modified Tersoff (MT) formats. Both potentials have been trained on a reference database of first-principles calculations without using experimental data. The properties of Pt predicted by the ADP and MT potentials agree better with density functional theory calculations and experimental data than the potentials available in the literature. Future applications of the MT model to mixed-bonding metal-covalent systems are discussed.
Notes: This entry is for the modified Tersoff (MT) platinum potential introduced in the reference. Update July 9, 2026: Citation information has been updated.