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Gabriel JP, Horstmann R, Tress M. Local and global expansivity in water. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:234502. [PMID: 38884401 DOI: 10.1063/5.0203924] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2024] [Accepted: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024] Open
Abstract
The supra-molecular structure of a liquid is strongly connected to its dynamics, which in turn control macroscopic properties such as viscosity. Consequently, detailed knowledge about how this structure changes with temperature is essential to understand the thermal evolution of the dynamics ranging from the liquid to the glass. Here, we combine infrared spectroscopy (IR) measurements of the hydrogen (H) bond stretching vibration of water with molecular dynamics simulations and employ a quantitative analysis to extract the inter-molecular H-bond length in a wide temperature range of the liquid. The extracted expansivity of this H-bond differs strongly from that of the average nearest neighbor distance of oxygen atoms obtained through a common conversion of mass density. However, both properties can be connected through a simple model based on a random loose packing of spheres with a variable coordination number, which demonstrates the relevance of supra-molecular arrangement. Furthermore, the exclusion of the expansivity of the inter-molecular H-bonds reveals that the most compact molecular arrangement is formed in the range of ∼316-331K (i.e., above the density maximum) close to the temperature of several pressure-related anomalies, which indicates a characteristic point in the supra-molecular arrangement. These results confirm our earlier approach to deduce inter-molecular H-bond lengths via IR in polyalcohols [Gabriel et al. J. Chem. Phys. 154, 024503 (2021)] quantitatively and open a new alley to investigate the role of inter-molecular expansion as a precursor of molecular fluctuations on a bond-specific level.
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- Jan Philipp Gabriel
- Institute of Materials Physics in Space, German Aerospace Center, 51170 Köln, Germany
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- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Technical University Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Peter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Research, Leipzig University, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
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Lang X, Shi L, Zhao Z, Min W. Probing the structure of water in individual living cells. Nat Commun 2024; 15:5271. [PMID: 38902250 PMCID: PMC11190263 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49404-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2023] [Accepted: 06/04/2024] [Indexed: 06/22/2024] Open
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Water regulates or even governs a wide range of biological processes. Despite its fundamental importance, surprisingly little is known about the structure of intracellular water. Herein we employ a Raman micro-spectroscopy technique to uncover the composition, abundance and vibrational spectra of intracellular water in individual living cells. In three different cell types, we show a small but consistent population (~3%) of non-bulk-like water. It exhibits a weakened hydrogen-bonded network and a more disordered tetrahedral structure. We attribute this population to biointerfacial water located in the vicinity of biomolecules. Moreover, our whole-cell modeling suggests that all soluble (globular) proteins inside cells are surrounded by, on average, one full molecular layer (about 2.6 Angstrom) of biointerfacial water. Furthermore, relative invariance of biointerfacial water is observed among different single cells. Overall, our study not only opens up experimental possibilities of interrogating water structure in vivo but also provides insights into water in life.
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- Xiaoqi Lang
- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA
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- Shanghai Xuhui Central Hospital, Zhongshan-Xuhui Hospital, and Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Epigenetics, International Co-laboratory of Medical Epigenetics and Metabolism, Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA.
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Ojha D, Henao A, Zysk F, Kühne TD. Nuclear quantum effects on the vibrational dynamics of the water-air interface. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:204114. [PMID: 38804494 DOI: 10.1063/5.0204071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 05/29/2024] Open
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We have applied path-integral molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the impact of nuclear quantum effects on the vibrational dynamics of water molecules at the water-air interface. The instantaneous fluctuations in the frequencies of the O-H stretch modes are calculated using the wavelet method of time series analysis, while the time scales of vibrational spectral diffusion are determined from frequency-time correlation functions and joint probability distributions. We find that the inclusion of nuclear quantum effects leads not only to a redshift in the vibrational frequency distribution by about 120 cm-1 for both the bulk and interfacial water molecules but also to an acceleration of the vibrational dynamics at the water-air interface by as much as 35%. In addition, a blueshift of about 45 cm-1 is seen in the vibrational frequency distribution of interfacial water molecules compared to that of the bulk. Furthermore, the dynamics of water molecules beyond the topmost molecular layer was found to be rather similar to that of bulk water.
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- Deepak Ojha
- Dynamics of Condensed Matter and Center for Sustainable Systems Design, Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Dynamics of Condensed Matter and Center for Sustainable Systems Design, Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Dynamics of Condensed Matter and Center for Sustainable Systems Design, Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Center for Advanced Systems Understanding (CASUS), Untermarkt 20, D-02826 Görlitz, Germany, Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Bautzner Landstraße 400, D-01328 Dresden, Germany, and TU Dresden, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Chair of Computational System Sciences, Nöthnitzer Straße 46, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
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Telfah A, Charifi Z, Latelli N, Qattan IA, Baaziz H, Al-Bataineh QM, Alsaad AM, Sabirianov RF. Formation of hydrogen bonding network of methane sulfonic acid at low degree of hydration (MSA) m·(H 2O) n (m = 1-2 and n = 1-5). Sci Rep 2024; 14:11252. [PMID: 38755227 PMCID: PMC11099154 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-61364-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2023] [Accepted: 05/06/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
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This study employs ab initio calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) to investigate the structural properties, 1H-NMR spectra, and vibrational spectra of methane sulfonic acid (MSA) at low degree of hydration. The findings reveal that energetically stable structures are formed by small clusters consisting of one or two MSA molecules (m = 1 and 2) and one or two water molecules in (MSA)m·(H2O)n (m = 1-2 and n = 1-5).These stable structures arise from the formation of strong cyclic hydrogen bonds between the proton of the hydroxyl (OH) group in MSA and the water molecules. However, clusters containing three or more water molecules (n > 2) exhibit proton transfer from MSA to water, resulting in the formation of ion-pairs composed of CH3SO3- and H3O+species. The measured 1H-NMR spectra demonstrate the presence of hydrogen-bonded interactions between MSA and water, with a single MSA molecule interacting with water molecules. This interaction model accurately represents the hydrogen bonding network, as supported by the agreement between the experimental and calculated NMR chemical shift results.
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- Ahmad Telfah
- Nanotechnology Center, The University of Jordan, Amman, 11942, Jordan.
- Fachhochschule Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany.
- Department of Physics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, 68182, USA.
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of M'sila, 28000, M'sila, Algeria
- Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of Materials, University of M'sila, M'sila, Algeria
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, University of M'sila, 28000, M'sila, Algeria
- Laboratoire Chimie des Matériaux et des Vivants: Activité, Réactivité, Université Batna1, 05001, Batna, Algerie
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- Department of Physics, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, P.O. Box 127788, 127788, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of M'sila, 28000, M'sila, Algeria
- Laboratory of Physics and Chemistry of Materials, University of M'sila, M'sila, Algeria
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- Leibniz Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften-ISAS-e.V., 44139, Dortmund, Germany
- Experimental Physics, TU Dortmund University, 44227, Dortmund, Germany
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- Department of Physical Sciences, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, 22110, Jordan
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- Department of Physics, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE, 68182, USA
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Ji D, Liu J, Zhao J, Li M, Rho Y, Shin H, Han TH, Bae J. Sustainable 3D printing by reversible salting-out effects with aqueous salt solutions. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3925. [PMID: 38724512 PMCID: PMC11082145 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48121-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2023] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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Achieving a simple yet sustainable printing technique with minimal instruments and energy remains challenging. Here, a facile and sustainable 3D printing technique is developed by utilizing a reversible salting-out effect. The salting-out effect induced by aqueous salt solutions lowers the phase transition temperature of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) solutions to below 10 °C. It enables the spontaneous and instant formation of physical crosslinks within PNIPAM chains at room temperature, thus allowing the PNIPAM solution to solidify upon contact with a salt solution. The PNIPAM solutions are extrudable through needles and can immediately solidify by salt ions, preserving printed structures, without rheological modifiers, chemical crosslinkers, and additional post-processing steps/equipment. The reversible physical crosslinking and de-crosslinking of the polymer through the salting-out effect demonstrate the recyclability of the polymeric ink. This printing approach extends to various PNIPAM-based composite solutions incorporating functional materials or other polymers, which offers great potential for developing water-soluble disposable electronic circuits, carriers for delivering small materials, and smart actuators.
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- Donghwan Ji
- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
- Chemical Engineering Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Organic and Nano Engineering and Human-Tech Convergence Program, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Organic and Nano Engineering and Human-Tech Convergence Program, Hanyang University, Seoul, 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
- Materials Science and Engineering Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
- Chemical Engineering Program, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
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Ishikawa M, Borges R, Mourão A, Ferreira LM, Lobo AO, Martinho H. Confined Water Dynamics in the Scaffolds of Polylactic Acid. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:19796-19804. [PMID: 38737045 PMCID: PMC11079869 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c08057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2023] [Revised: 03/12/2024] [Accepted: 03/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/14/2024]
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Resorbable polylactic acid (PLA) ultrathin fibers have been applied as scaffolds for tissue engineering applications due to their micro- and nanoporous structure that favor cell adhesion, besides inducing cell proliferation and upregulating gene expression related to tissue regeneration. Incorporation of multiwalled carbon nanotubes into PLA fibers has been reported to increase the mechanical properties of the scaffold, making them even more suitable for tissue engineering applications. Ideally, scaffolds should be degraded simultaneously with tissue growth. Hydration and swelling are factors related to scaffold degradation. Hydration would negatively impact the mechanical properties since PLA shows hydrolytic degradation. Water absorption critically affects the catalysis and allowance of the hydrolysis reactions. Moreover, either mass transport and chemical reactions are influenced by confined water, which is an unexplored subject for PLA micro- and nanoporous fibers. Here, we probe and investigate confined water onto highly porous PLA microfibers containing few amounts of incorporated carbon nanotubes by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. A hydrostatic pressure was applied to the fibers to enhance the intermolecular interactions between water molecules and C=O groups from polyester bonds, which were evaluated over the wavenumber between 1600 and 2000 cm-1. The analysis of temperature dependence of FTIR spectra indicated the presence of confined water which is characterized by a non-Arrhenius to Arrhenius crossover at T0 = 190 K for 1716 and 1817 cm-1 carbonyl bands of PLA. These bands are sensitive to a hydrogen bond network of confined water. The relevance of our finding relies on the challenge detecting confined water in hydrophobic cavities as in the PLA one. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first report referring the presence of confined water in a hydrophobic scaffold as PLA for tissue engineering. Our findings can provide new opportunities to understand the role of confined water in tissue engineering applications. For instance, we argue that PLA degradation may be affected the most by confined water. PLA degradation involves hydrolytic and enzymatic degradation reactions, which can both be sensitive to changes in water properties.
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- Mariana Ishikawa
- Federal
University of ABC, Santo André, São Paulo 09280-560, Brazil
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- Federal
University of ABC, Santo André, São Paulo 09280-560, Brazil
- School
of Biomedical Engineering, Faculdade Israelita de Ciências
da Saúde Albert Einstein, Hospital
Israelita Albert Einstein, São
Paulo, São Paulo 09280-560, Brazil
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- Federal
University of ABC, Santo André, São Paulo 09280-560, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary
Laboratory for Advanced Materials, BioMatLab, Department of Materials
Engineering, Federal University of Piauí, Teresina, Piauí 64049-550, Brazil
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Sassi P, Comez L, D'Amico F, Rossi B, Bartolini G, Fioretto D, Paolantoni M. Ultraviolet Resonant Raman Scattering of Electrolyte Solutions. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2024:37028241245443. [PMID: 38632936 DOI: 10.1177/00037028241245443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/19/2024]
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Saltwater stands as the most prevalent liquid on Earth. Consequently, substantial interest has been directed toward its characterization, both as an independent system and as a solvent for complex structures such as biomacromolecules. In the last few decades, special emphasis was placed on the investigation of the hydration properties of ions for the fundamental role they play in numerous chemical processes. In this study, we employed multi-wavelength Raman spectroscopy to examine the hydration shell surrounding bromide ions in solutions of simple electrolytes, specifically lithium bromide, potassium bromide, and cesium bromide, at two different concentrations. Cation-induced differences among electrolytes were observed in connection to their tendency to form ion pairs. An increased sensitivity to reveal the structure of the first hydration shell was evidenced when employing ultraviolet excitation in the 228-266 nm range, under resonance conditions with the charge transfer transition to the solvent peaked at about 200 nm. Other than a significant increase in the Raman cross-section for the OH stretching band when shifting from pure water to the solution, a larger enhancement for the Raman signal of the H-O-H bending mode over the stretching vibration was observed. Thus, the bending band plays a crucial role in monitoring the H-bond structure of water around the anions related to the charge distribution within the first hydration shell of anions, being an effective probe of hydration phenomena.
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- Paola Sassi
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- CNR-Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM), Perugia, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. di interesse nazionale, Trieste, Italy
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- Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. di interesse nazionale, Trieste, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica e Geologia, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Biologia e Biotecnologie, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy
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Khanifaev J, Schrader T, Perlt E. The effect of machine learning predicted anharmonic frequencies on thermodynamic properties of fluid hydrogen fluoride. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:124302. [PMID: 38516969 DOI: 10.1063/5.0195386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2024] [Accepted: 03/02/2024] [Indexed: 03/23/2024] Open
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Anharmonic effects play a crucial role in determining thermochemical properties of liquids and gases. For such extended phases, the inclusion of anharmonicity in reliable electronic structure methods is computationally extremely demanding, and hence, anharmonic effects are often lacking in thermochemical calculations. In this study, we apply the quantum cluster equilibrium method to transfer density functional theory calculations at the cluster level to the macroscopic, liquid, and gaseous phase of hydrogen fluoride. This allows us to include anharmonicity, either via vibrational self-consistent field calculations for smaller clusters or using a regression model for larger clusters. We obtain the structural composition of the fluid phases in terms of the population of different clusters as well as isobaric heat capacities as an example for thermodynamic properties. We study the role of anharmonicities for these analyses and observe that, in particular, the dominating structural motifs are rather sensitive to the anharmonicity in vibrational frequencies. The regression model proves to be a promising way to get access to anharmonic features, and the extension to more sophisticated machine-learning models is promising.
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- Jamoliddin Khanifaev
- Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
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- Otto Schott Institute of Materials Research, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 07743 Jena, Germany
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Lüttschwager NOB. The strength of the OH-bend/OH-stretch Fermi resonance in small water clusters. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2024; 26:10120-10135. [PMID: 38487881 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp06255d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/28/2024]
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A novel Raman jet-spectrometer is used to study the Fermi resonance between the OH bending overtone and OH stretching fundamental in small cyclic water clusters (H2O)n with n = 3, 4, 5. The new setup features a recirculating vacuum system which reduces the gas consumption by 2 to 3 orders of magnitude and enables long-term measurements of very weak Raman signals. Raman spectra measured from highly diluted expansions with unprecedented signal-to-noise ratio are presented and cluster-specific intensity ratios and effective coupling constants are derived using Markov-Chain Monte-Carlo methods, yielding a high probability for an almost "perfect" resonance for the tetramer and pentamer, i.e. a close frequency match of bend overtone and stretch fundamental with intensity ratios close to 1, but a larger coupling constant for the trimer, with best estimates close to W5 ≲ 50 cm-1 < W4 ≲ 60 cm-1 < W3 ≈ 65 cm-1.
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- Nils O B Lüttschwager
- Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Tammannstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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Zhang YY, Zheng H, Wang T, Jiang S, Yan W, Wang C, Zhao Y, Lu JB, Hu HS, Yang J, Zhang W, Wu G, Xie H, Li G, Jiang L, Yang X, Li J. Spectroscopic and Theoretical Identifications of Two Structural Motifs of (H 2O) 10 Cluster. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:3055-3060. [PMID: 38466221 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c00210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/12/2024]
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Precise characterization of archetypal systems of aqueous hydrogen-bonding networks is essential for developing accurate potential functions and universal models of water. The structures of water clusters (H2O)n (n = 2-9) have been verified recently through size-specific infrared spectroscopy with a vacuum ultraviolet free electron laser (VUV-FEL) and quantum chemical studies. For (H2O)10, the pentagonal prism and butterfly motifs were proposed to be important building blocks and were observed in previous experiments. Here we report the size-specific infrared spectra of (H2O)10 via a joint experimental and theoretical study. Well-resolved spectra provide a unique signature for the coexistence of pentagonal prism and butterfly motifs. These (H2O)10 motifs develop from the dominant structures of (H2O)n (n = 8, 9) clusters. This work provides an intriguing prelude to the diverse structure of liquid water and opens avenues for size-dependent measurement of larger systems to understand the stepwise formation mechanism of hydrogen-bonding networks.
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- Yang-Yang Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare-Earth Materials of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Department of Chemistry and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalytic Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 19A Yuquan Road, Beijing 100049, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare-Earth Materials of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Department of Chemistry and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalytic Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare-Earth Materials of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
- Department of Chemistry and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalytic Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
- Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei 230088, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Engineering Research Center of Advanced Rare-Earth Materials of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
- Department of Chemistry and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Catalytic Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen 518055, China
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Bai Y, He J, Gao Y, Zhang M, Zhou D, Tang Y, Liu J, Bian H, Fang Y. Dynamics of Formamide-Water Mixtures Investigated by Linear and Nonlinear Infrared Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2024. [PMID: 38417258 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07850] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/01/2024]
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Formamide (FA) exhibits complete miscibility with water, offering a simplified model for exploring the solvation dynamics of peptide linkages in biophysical processes. Its liquid state demonstrates a three-dimensional hydrogen bonding network akin to water, reflecting solvent-like behavior. Analyzing the microscopic structure and dynamics of FA-water mixtures is expected to provide crucial insights into hydrogen bonding dynamics─a key aspect of various biophysical phenomena. This study is focused on the dynamics of FA-water mixtures using linear and femtosecond infrared spectroscopies. By using the intrinsic OD stretch and extrinsic probe SCN-, the local vibrational behaviors across various FA-water compositions were systematically investigated. The vibrational relaxation of OD stretch revealed a negligible impact of FA addition on the vibrational lifetime of water molecules, underscoring the mixture's water-like behavior. However, the reorientational dynamics of OD stretch slowed with increasing FA mole fraction (XFA), plateauing beyond XFA > 0.5. This suggests a correlation between OD's reorientational time and the strength of the hydrogen bond network, likely tied to the solution's changing dielectric constant. Conversely, the vibrational relaxation dynamics of SCN- was strongly correlated with XFA, highlighting a competition between water and FA molecules in solvating SCN-. Moreover, a linear relationship between rising viscosity and the prolonged correlation time of SCN-'s slow dynamics indicates that the solution's macroscopic viscosity is dictated by the extended structures formed between FA and water molecules. The relation between the reorientation dynamics of the SCN- and the macroscopic viscosity in aqueous FA-water mixture solutions was analyzed by using the Stokes-Einstein-Debye equations. The direct viscosity-diffusion coupling is observed, which can be attributed to the homogeneous dynamics feature in FA-water mixture solutions. The inclusion of these intrinsic and extrinsic probes not only enhances the comprehensiveness of our analysis but also provides valuable insights into various aspects of the dynamics within the FA-water system. This investigation sheds light on the fundamental dynamics of FA-water mixtures, emphasizing their molecular-level homogeneity in this binary mixture solution.
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- Yimin Bai
- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an 710119, China
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Bookholt T, Qin X, Lilli B, Enke D, Huck M, Balkenhohl D, Rüwe K, Brune J, Klare JP, Küpper K, Schuster A, Bergjan J, Steinhart M, Gröger H, Daum D, Schäfer H. Increased Readiness for Water Splitting: NiO-Induced Weakening of Bonds in Water Molecules as Possible Cause of Ultra-Low Oxygen Evolution Potential. SMALL (WEINHEIM AN DER BERGSTRASSE, GERMANY) 2024:e2310665. [PMID: 38386292 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202310665] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2023] [Revised: 02/08/2024] [Indexed: 02/23/2024]
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The development of non-precious metal-based electrodes that actively and stably support the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in water electrolysis systems remains a challenge, especially at low pH levels. The recently published study has conclusively shown that the addition of haematite to H2 SO4 is a highly effective method of significantly reducing oxygen evolution overpotential and extending anode life. The far superior result is achieved by concentrating oxygen evolution centres on the oxide particles rather than on the electrode. However, unsatisfactory Faradaic efficiencies of the OER and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) parts as well as the required high haematite load impede applicability and upscaling of this process. Here it is shown that the same performance is achieved with three times less metal oxide powder if NiO/H2 SO4 suspensions are used along with stainless steel anodes. The reason for the enormous improvement in OER performance by adding NiO to the electrolyte is the weakening of the intramolecular O─H bond in the water molecules, which is under the direct influence of the nickel oxide suspended in the electrolyte. The manipulation of bonds in water molecules to increase the tendency of the water to split is a ground-breaking development, as shown in this first example.
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- Tom Bookholt
- University of Osnabrück, The Electrochemical Energy and Catalysis Group, Barbarastrasse 7, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Strait Institute of Flexible Electronics (SIFE, Future Technologies), Fujian Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics, Fujian Normal University and Strait Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (SLoFE), Fuzhou, 350117, P. R. China
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- University of Leipzig, Institute of Chemical Technology, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- University of Leipzig, Institute of Chemical Technology, 04103, Leipzig, Germany
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- University of Osnabrück, The Electrochemical Energy and Catalysis Group, Barbarastrasse 7, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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- University of Osnabrück, The Electrochemical Energy and Catalysis Group, Barbarastrasse 7, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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- University of Osnabrück, The Electrochemical Energy and Catalysis Group, Barbarastrasse 7, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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- University of Osnabrück, The Electrochemical Energy and Catalysis Group, Barbarastrasse 7, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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- University of Osnabrück Department of Physics, Barbarastrasse 7, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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- University of Osnabrück Department of Physics, Barbarastrasse 7, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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- University of Osnabrück, Inorganic Chemistry II, Barbarastrasse 7, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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- University of Osnabrück, Physical Chemistry, Barbarastrasse 7, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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- University of Osnabrück, Physical Chemistry, Barbarastrasse 7, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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- Bielefeld University, Chair of Industrial Organic Chemistry and Biotechnology, Faculty of Chemistry, Universitätsstraße 25, 33615, Bielefeld, Germany
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- Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Science and Landscape Architecture, Laboratory of Plant Nutrition and Chemistry, Am Krümpel 31, 49090, Osnabrück, Germany
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- University of Osnabrück, The Electrochemical Energy and Catalysis Group, Barbarastrasse 7, 49076, Osnabrück, Germany
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Yao Y, Catalini S, Foggi P, Mezzenga R. Water-lipid interface in lipidic mesophases with excess water. Faraday Discuss 2024; 249:469-484. [PMID: 37786338 PMCID: PMC10845009 DOI: 10.1039/d3fd00118k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 10/04/2023]
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This study investigates the influence of excess water on the lipidic mesophase during the phase transition from diamond cubic phase (Pn3̄m) to reverse hexagonal phase (HII). Using a combination of small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) techniques, we explore the dynamics of lipids and their interaction with water during phase transition. Our BDS results reveal three relaxation processes originating from lipids, all of which exhibit a kink during the phase transition. With the excess water, these processes accelerate due to the plasticizing effect of water. Additionally, our results demonstrate that the headgroups in the HII phase are more densely packed than those in the Pn3̄m phase, which agrees with the FTIR results. Meanwhile, we investigate the influence of excess water on the lipid headgroups, the H-bond network of water, the lipid tail, and the interface carbonyl group between the head and tail of the lipid molecule. The results indicate that excess water permeates the lipid interface and forms additional hydrogen bonds with the carbonyl groups. As a result, the headgroups are more flexible in a lipidic mesophase with excess water than those in mesophases without excess water.
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- Yang Yao
- Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, LENS, 50019 Florence, Italy
- Department of Physic and Geology, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
- CNR-INO, National Research Council-National Institute of Optics, 50125 Florence, Italy
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- European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy, LENS, 50019 Florence, Italy
- CNR-INO, National Research Council-National Institute of Optics, 50125 Florence, Italy
- Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.
- Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Hou R, Li C, Pan D. Raman and IR spectra of water under graphene nanoconfinement at ambient and extreme pressure-temperature conditions: a first-principles study. Faraday Discuss 2024; 249:181-194. [PMID: 37791622 DOI: 10.1039/d3fd00111c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/05/2023]
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The nanoconfinement of water can result in dramatic differences in its physical and chemical properties compared to bulk water. However, a detailed molecular-level understanding of these properties is still lacking. Vibrational spectroscopy, such as Raman and infrared, is a popular experimental tool for studying the structure and dynamics of water, and is often complemented by atomistic simulations to interpret experimental spectra, but there have been few theoretical spectroscopy studies of nanoconfined water using first-principles methods at ambient conditions, let alone under extreme pressure-temperature conditions. Here, we compute the Raman and IR spectra of water nanoconfined by graphene at ambient and extreme pressure-temperature conditions using ab initio simulations. Our results revealed alterations in the Raman stretching and low-frequency bands due to the graphene confinement. We also found spectroscopic evidence indicating that nanoconfinement considerably changes the tetrahedral hydrogen bond network, which is typically found in bulk water. Furthermore, we observed an unusual bending band in the Raman spectrum at ∼10 GPa and 1000 K, which is attributed to the unique molecular structure of confined ionic water. Additionally, we found that at ∼20 GPa and 1000 K, confined water transformed into a superionic fluid, making it challenging to identify the IR stretching band. Finally, we computed the ionic conductivity of confined water in the ionic and superionic phases. Our results highlight the efficacy of Raman and IR spectroscopy in studying the structure and dynamics of nanoconfined water in a large pressure-temperature range. Our predicted Raman and IR spectra can serve as a valuable guide for future experiments.
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- Rui Hou
- Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
- HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
- HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute, Shenzhen, China
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- Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China.
- Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China
- HKUST Shenzhen-Hong Kong Collaborative Innovation Research Institute, Shenzhen, China
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Li MG, Hu M, Fan LM, Bao JD, Li PC. Quantifying the energy landscape in weakly and strongly disordered frictional media. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:024903. [PMID: 38189619 DOI: 10.1063/5.0178092] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/26/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024] Open
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We investigate the "roughness" of the energy landscape of a system that diffuses in a heterogeneous medium with a random position-dependent friction coefficient α(x). This random friction acting on the system stems from spatial inhomogeneity in the surrounding medium and is modeled using the generalized Caldira-Leggett model. For a weakly disordered medium exhibiting a Gaussian random diffusivity D(x) = kBT/α(x) characterized by its average value ⟨D(x)⟩ and a pair-correlation function ⟨D(x1)D(x2)⟩, we find that the renormalized intrinsic diffusion coefficient is lower than the average one due to the fluctuations in diffusivity. The induced weak internal friction leads to increased roughness in the energy landscape. When applying this idea to diffusive motion in liquid water, the dissociation energy for a hydrogen bond gradually approaches experimental findings as fluctuation parameters increase. Conversely, for a strongly disordered medium (i.e., ultrafast-folding proteins), the energy landscape ranges from a few to a few kcal/mol, depending on the strength of the disorder. By fitting protein folding dynamics to the escape process from a metastable potential, the decreased escape rate conceptualizes the role of strong internal friction. Studying the energy landscape in complex systems is helpful because it has implications for the dynamics of biological, soft, and active matter systems.
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- Ming-Gen Li
- Department of Physics, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, China
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- Department of Mathematics and Physics, North China Electric Power University, Baoding 071003, China
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- College of Physical Science and Technology, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, China
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- Department of Physics, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100048, China
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- Department of Physics, Shantou University, Shantou, Guangdong 515063, China
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LaCour RA, Heindel JP, Head-Gordon T. Predicting the Raman Spectra of Liquid Water with a Monomer-Field Model. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:11742-11749. [PMID: 38116782 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2023]
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The Raman spectrum of liquid water is quite complex, reflecting its strong sensitivity to the local environment of the individual waters. The OH-stretch region of the spectrum, which captures the influence of hydrogen bonding, has only just begun to be unraveled. Here we develop a model for predicting the Raman spectra of the OH-stretch region by considering how local electric fields distort the energy surface of each water monomer. We find that our model is capable of reproducing the bimodal nature of the main peak, with the shoulder at 3250 cm-1 resulting almost entirely from Fermi resonance. Furthermore, we capture the temperature and polarization dependence of the shoulder, which has proven to be difficult to obtain with previous methods, and analyze the origin of this dependence. We expect our model to be generally useful for understanding and predicting how Raman spectra change under different conditions and with different probe reporters beyond water.
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- R Allen LaCour
- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
- Departments of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Al-Mualem ZA, Chen X, Shafieenezhad A, Senning EN, Baiz CR. Binding-induced lipid domains: Peptide-membrane interactions with PIP 2 and PS. Biophys J 2023:S0006-3495(23)04157-7. [PMID: 38142298 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.12.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2023] [Revised: 11/08/2023] [Accepted: 12/20/2023] [Indexed: 12/25/2023] Open
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Cell signaling is an important process involving complex interactions between lipids and proteins. The myristoylated alanine-rich C-kinase substrate (MARCKS) has been established as a key signaling regulator, serving a range of biological roles. Its effector domain (ED), which anchors the protein to the plasma membrane, induces domain formation in membranes containing phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2) and phosphatidylserine (PS). The mechanisms governing the MARCKS-ED binding to membranes remain elusive. Here, we investigate the composition-dependent affinity and MARCKS-ED-binding-induced changes in interfacial environments using two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy and fluorescence anisotropy. Both negatively charged lipids facilitate the MARCKS-ED binding to lipid vesicles. Although the hydrogen-bonding structure at the lipid-water interface remains comparable across vesicles with varied lipid compositions, the dynamics of interfacial water show divergent patterns due to specific interactions between lipids and peptides. Our findings also reveal that PIP2 becomes sequestered by bound peptides, while the distribution of PS exhibits no discernible change upon peptide binding. Interestingly, PIP2 and PS become colocalized into domains both in the presence and absence of MARCKS-ED. More broadly, this work offers molecular insights into the effects of membrane composition on binding.
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
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- Department of Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
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Chiang KY, Yu X, Yu CC, Seki T, Sun S, Bonn M, Nagata Y. Bulklike Vibrational Coupling of Surface Water Revealed by Sum-Frequency Generation Spectroscopy. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:256202. [PMID: 38181372 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.256202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2022] [Revised: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/30/2023] [Indexed: 01/07/2024]
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Vibrational coupling between interfacial water molecules is important for energy dissipation after on-water chemistry, yet intensely debated. Here, we quantify the interfacial vibrational coupling strength through the linewidth of surface-specific vibrational spectra of the water's O─H (O─D) stretch region for neat H_{2}O/D_{2}O and their isotopic mixtures. The local-field-effect-corrected experimental SFG spectra reveal that the vibrational coupling between hydrogen-bonded interfacial water O─H groups is comparable to that in bulk water, despite the effective density reduction at the interface.
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- Kuo-Yang Chiang
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Physics and Applied Optics Beijing Area Major Laboratory, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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You X, Zhang D, Zhang XG, Li X, Tian JH, Wang YH, Li JF. Exploring the Cation Regulation Mechanism for Interfacial Water Involved in the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction by In Situ Raman Spectroscopy. NANO-MICRO LETTERS 2023; 16:53. [PMID: 38108934 PMCID: PMC10728385 DOI: 10.1007/s40820-023-01285-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 12/19/2023]
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Interfacial water molecules are the most important participants in the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Hence, understanding the behavior and role that interfacial water plays will ultimately reveal the HER mechanism. Unfortunately, investigating interfacial water is extremely challenging owing to the interference caused by bulk water molecules and complexity of the interfacial environment. Here, the behaviors of interfacial water in different cationic electrolytes on Pd surfaces were investigated by the electrochemistry, in situ core-shell nanostructure enhanced Raman spectroscopy and theoretical simulation techniques. Direct spectral evidence reveals a red shift in the frequency and a decrease in the intensity of interfacial water as the potential is shifted in the positively direction. When comparing the different cation electrolyte systems at a given potential, the frequency of the interfacial water peak increases in the specified order: Li+ < Na+ < K+ < Ca2+ < Sr2+. The structure of interfacial water was optimized by adjusting the radius, valence, and concentration of cation to form the two-H down structure. This unique interfacial water structure will improve the charge transfer efficiency between the water and electrode further enhancing the HER performance. Therefore, local cation tuning strategies can be used to improve the HER performance by optimizing the interfacial water structure.
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- Xueqiu You
- School of Ocean Information Engineering, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Oceanic Information Perception and Intelligent Processing, Jimei University, Xiamen, 361021, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Materials, College of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, People's Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Media and Reactions, Ministry of Education, Collaborative Innovation Center of Henan Province for Green Manufacturing of Fine Chemicals, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, 453007, People's Republic of China
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- School of Ocean Information Engineering, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Oceanic Information Perception and Intelligent Processing, Jimei University, Xiamen, 361021, People's Republic of China
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- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen, 361005, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Materials, College of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, iChEM, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, College of Materials, College of Energy, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, People's Republic of China.
- Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM), Xiamen, 361005, People's Republic of China.
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Buessler M, Maruyama S, Zelenka M, Onishi H, Backus EHG. Unravelling the interfacial water structure at the photocatalyst strontium titanate by sum frequency generation spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:31471-31480. [PMID: 37962476 PMCID: PMC10664186 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03829g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/10/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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The direct conversion of solar energy to hydrogen is considered as a possible method to produce carbon neutral hydrogen fuel. The mechanism of photocatalytic water splitting involves the chemical breakdown of water and re-assembly into hydrogen and oxygen at the interface of a photocatalyst. The selection rules of a suitable material are well established, but the fundamental understanding of the mechanisms, occurring at the interface between the catalyst and the water, remains missing. Using surface specific sum frequency generation spectroscopy, we present here characterisation of the interface between water and the photocatalyst strontium titanate (SrTiO3). We monitor the OH-stretching vibrations present at the interface. Their variations of intensities and frequencies as functions of isotopic dilution, pH and salt concentration provide information about the nature of the hydrogen bonding environment. We observe the presence of water molecules that flip their orientation at pH 5 indicating the point of zero charge of the SrTiO3 layer. These water molecules are oriented with their hydrogen away from the surface when the pH of the solutions is below 5 and pointing towards the surface when the pH is higher than 5. Besides, water molecules donating a H-bond to probably surface TiOH groups are observed at all pH.
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- Martin Buessler
- University of Vienna, Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Währinger Straße 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
- University of Vienna, Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), Währinger Straße 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Währinger Straße 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
- University of Vienna, Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), Währinger Straße 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Kobe University, Rokko-dai, Nada, Kobe, Japan
- Division of Advanced Molecular Science, Institute for Molecular Science, Myodaiji, Okazaki, Japan
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- University of Vienna, Faculty of Chemistry, Institute of Physical Chemistry, Währinger Straße 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
- University of Vienna, Vienna Doctoral School in Chemistry (DoSChem), Währinger Straße 42, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Shen H, Shen X, Wu Z. Simulating the isotropic Raman spectra of O-H stretching mode in liquid H 2O based on a machine learning potential: the influence of vibrational couplings. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:28180-28188. [PMID: 37819214 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp03035k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/13/2023]
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In this study, we trained a deep potential (DP) for H2O, an accurate machine learning (ML) potential. We performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of liquid water using the DP model (or DeePMD simulations). Our results showed that the DP model exhibits DFT-level accuracy, and the DeePMD simulation is a promising approach for modeling the structural properties of liquid water. Based on the DeePMD simulation trajectories, we calculated the isotropic Raman spectra of the O-H stretching mode using the surface-specific velocity-velocity correlation function (ssVVCF), showing that the DeePMD/ssVVCF approach can correctly capture the bimodal characteristics of the experimental Raman spectra, with one peak located near 3400 cm-1 and the other near 3250 cm-1. The success of the DeePMD/ssVVCF approach should be credited to (1) the DFT-level accuracy of the DP model for H2O, (2) the ssVVCF formulation considering the coupling between vibrational modes, and (3) non-Condon effects. Furthermore, the DeePMD simulations revealed that the anharmonic interactions between the coupled water molecules in the first and second hydration shells should play an essential role in the strong mixing of the H-O-H bending mode and the O-H stretching mode, leading to the delocalization of the O-H stretching band. In particular, increasing the strength of hydrogen bonds would enhance the bend-stretch coupling, leading to the red-shifting of the O-H vibrational spectra and the increase in the intensity of the shoulder around 3250 cm-1.
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- Hujun Shen
- Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-Material Science, Guizhou Education University, Guiyang 550018, China.
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- National Center of Technology Innovation for Intelligent Design and Numerical Control, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China
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- Department of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, Guizhou Vocational Technology College of Electronics & Information, Kaili, 556000, China
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Li P, Jiao Y, Huang J, Chen S. Electric Double Layer Effects in Electrocatalysis: Insights from Ab Initio Simulation and Hierarchical Continuum Modeling. JACS AU 2023; 3:2640-2659. [PMID: 37885580 PMCID: PMC10598835 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.3c00410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2023] [Revised: 09/02/2023] [Accepted: 09/06/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023]
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Structures of the electric double layer (EDL) at electrocatalytic interfaces, which are modulated by the material properties, the electrolyte characteristics (e.g., the pH, the types and concentrations of ions), and the electrode potential, play crucial roles in the reaction kinetics. Understanding the EDL effects in electrocatalysis has attracted substantial research interest in recent years. However, the intrinsic relationships between the specific EDL structures and electrocatalytic kinetics remain poorly understood, especially on the atomic scale. In this Perspective, we briefly review the recent advances in deciphering the EDL effects mainly in hydrogen and oxygen electrocatalysis through a multiscale approach, spanning from the atomistic scale simulated by ab initio methods to the macroscale by a hierarchical approach. We highlight the importance of resolving the local reaction environment, especially the local hydrogen bond network, in understanding EDL effects. Finally, some of the remaining challenges are outlined, and an outlook for future developments in these exciting frontiers is provided.
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- Peng Li
- Hubei
Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Power Sources, College of Chemistry
and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Hubei
Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Power Sources, College of Chemistry
and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Institute
of Energy and Climate Research, IEK-13: Theory and Computation of
Energy Materials, Forschungszentrum Jülich
GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany
- Theory
of Electrocatalytic Interfaces, Faculty of Georesources and Materials
Engineering, RWTH Aachen University, 52062 Aachen, Germany
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- Hubei
Key Laboratory of Electrochemical Power Sources, College of Chemistry
and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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Xu C, Fracassi A, Baryiames CP, Bhattacharya A, Devaraj NK, Baiz CR. Sponge-phase Lipid Droplets as Synthetic Organelles: An Ultrafast Study of Hydrogen Bonding and Interfacial Environments. Chemphyschem 2023; 24:e202300404. [PMID: 37486881 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2023] [Revised: 07/12/2023] [Accepted: 07/18/2023] [Indexed: 07/26/2023]
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Bottom-up design of biomimetic organelles has gained recent attention as a route towards understanding the transition between non-living matter and life. Despite various artificial lipid membranes being developed, the specific relations between lipid structure, composition, interfacial properties, and morphology are not currently understood. Sponge-phase droplets contain dense, nonlamellar lipid bilayer networks that capture the complexities of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER), making them ideal artificial models of such organelles. Here, we combine ultrafast two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the interfacial H-bond networks in sponge-phase droplets composed of glycolipid and nonionic detergents. In the sponge phase, the interfacial environments are more hydrated and water molecules confined to the nanometer-scale aqueous channels in the sponge phase exhibit dynamics that are significantly slower compared to bulk water. Surfactant configurations and microscopic phase separation play a dominant role in determining membrane curvature and slow dynamics observed in the sponge phase. The studies suggest that H-bond networks within the nanometer-scale channels are disrupted not only by confinement but also by the interactions of surfactants, which extend 1-2 nm from the bilayer surface. The results provide a molecular-level description for controlling phase and morphology in the design of synthetic lipid organelles.
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- Cong Xu
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 105 E. 24th St. Stop A5300, 78712-1224, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Natural Sciences Building 3328, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 105 E. 24th St. Stop A5300, 78712-1224, Austin, TX, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Natural Sciences Building 3328, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Natural Sciences Building 3328, 92093, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 105 E. 24th St. Stop A5300, 78712-1224, Austin, TX, USA
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Litman Y, Lan J, Nagata Y, Wilkins DM. Fully First-Principles Surface Spectroscopy with Machine Learning. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:8175-8182. [PMID: 37671886 PMCID: PMC10510433 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01989] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/18/2023] [Accepted: 08/29/2023] [Indexed: 09/07/2023]
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Our current understanding of the structure and dynamics of aqueous interfaces at the molecular level has grown substantially due to the continuous development of surface-specific spectroscopies, such as vibrational sum-frequency generation (VSFG). As in other vibrational spectroscopies, we must turn to atomistic simulations to extract all of the information encoded in the VSFG spectra. The high computational cost associated with existing methods means that they have limitations in representing systems with complex electronic structure or in achieving statistical convergence. In this work, we combine high-dimensional neural network interatomic potentials and symmetry-adapted Gaussian process regression to overcome these constraints. We show that it is possible to model VSFG signals with fully ab initio accuracy using machine learning and illustrate the versatility of our approach on the water/air interface. Our strategy allows us to identify the main sources of theoretical inaccuracy and establish a clear pathway toward the modeling of surface-sensitive spectroscopy of complex interfaces.
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- Yair Litman
- Yusuf
Hamied Department of Chemistry, University
of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, U.K.
- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department
of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States
- Simons
Center for Computational Physical Chemistry at New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States
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- Max
Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Centre
for Quantum Materials and Technologies School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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Clark JB, Bowling-Charles T, Proma SJ, Biswas B, Limmer DT, Allen HC. Structural evolution of water-in-propylene carbonate mixtures revealed by polarized Raman spectroscopy and molecular dynamics. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:23963-23976. [PMID: 37644802 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp02181e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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The liquid structure of systems wherein water is limited in concentration or through geometry is of great interest in various fields such as biology, materials science, and electrochemistry. Here, we present a combined polarized Raman and molecular dynamics investigation of the structural changes that occur as water is added incrementally to propylene carbonate (PC), a polar, aprotic solvent that is important in lithium-ion batteries. Polarized Raman spectra of PC solutions were collected for water mole fractions 0.003 ≤ χwater ≤ 0.296, which encompasses the solubility range of water in PC. The novel approach taken herein provides additional hydrogen bond and solvation characterization of this system that has not been achievable in previous studies. Analysis of the polarized carbonyl Raman band in conjunction with simulations demonstrated that the bulk structure of the solvent remained unperturbed upon the addition of water. Experimental spectra in the O-H stretching region were decomposed through Gaussian fitting into sub-bands and comparison to studies of dilute HOD in D2O. With the aid of simulations, we identified these different bands as water arrangements having different degrees of hydrogen bonding. The observed water structure within PC indicates that water tends to self-aggregate, forming a hydrogen bond network that is distinctly different from the bulk and dependent on concentration. For example, at moderate concentrations, the most likely aggregate structures are chains of water molecules, each with two hydrogen bonds.
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- Jessica B Clark
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
- Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA.
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Cinq N, Simon A, Louisnard F, Cuny J. Accurate SCC-DFTB Parametrization of Liquid Water with Improved Atomic Charges and Iterative Boltzmann Inversion. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:7590-7601. [PMID: 37603798 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c03479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/23/2023]
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This work presents improvements of the description of liquid water within the self-consistent-charge density-functional based tight-binding scheme combining the use of Weighted Mulliken (WMull) charges and optimized O-H repulsive potential through the iterative Boltzmann inversion (IBI) process. The quality of the newly developed models is validated considering pair radial distribution functions (RDFs), as well as other structural, energetic, thermodynamic, and dynamic properties. The use of WMull charges certainly improves the agreement with experimental data, however leading to over-structured RDFs at short distance, that can be further improved by considering an optimized O-H repulsive potential obtained by the IBI process. Three different schemes were used to optimize this potential: (i) optimization including short O-H distances. This led to accurate RDFs as well as improved self-diffusion coefficient and heat of vaporization, while the proton transfer energy barrier is severely deteriorated; (ii) optimization starting at long distance. The proton transfer energy barrier is recovered while the heat of vaporization is deteriorated and the O-H RDF is less accurate at short distance; (iii) optimization within the path-integral molecular dynamics scheme which allows us to exclude nuclear quantum effects from the repulsive potential. The latter potential, in conjunction with the WMull improved atomic charges, provides similar results as (i) for structural, dynamic, and thermodynamic properties while recovering a large part of the proton transfer energy barrier. It therefore offers a good compromise to study both dynamic properties and chemistry within liquid water at a quantum chemical level.
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- Nicolas Cinq
- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques (LCPQ), FeRMI Institute, Université de Toulouse [UT3] and CNRS, Toulouse F-31062, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques (LCPQ), FeRMI Institute, Université de Toulouse [UT3] and CNRS, Toulouse F-31062, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques (LCPQ), FeRMI Institute, Université de Toulouse [UT3] and CNRS, Toulouse F-31062, France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques (LCPQ), FeRMI Institute, Université de Toulouse [UT3] and CNRS, Toulouse F-31062, France
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Huchmala RM, McCoy AB. Exploring the Origins of the Intensity of the OH Stretch-HOH Bend Combination Band in Water. J Phys Chem A 2023; 127:6711-6721. [PMID: 37552561 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c02980] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/10/2023]
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While the intensity of the OH stretching fundamental transition is strongly correlated to hydrogen-bond strength, the intensity of the corresponding transition to the state with one quantum of excitation in both the OH stretching and HOH bending vibrations in the same water molecule shows a much weaker sensitivity to the hydrogen-bonding environment. The origins of this difference are explored through analyses of the contributions of terms in the expansion of the dipole moment to the calculated intensity. It is found that the leading contribution to the stretch-bend intensity involves the second derivative of the dipole moment with respect to the OH bond length and HOH angle. While this is not surprising, the insensitivity of this derivative to the hydrogen-bonding environment is unexpected. Possible contributions of mode mixing are also explored. While mode mixing leads to splittings of the energies of nearly degenerate excited states, it does not result in significant changes in the sum of the intensities of these transitions. Analysis of changes in the partial charges on the hydrogen atoms upon displacement of the HOH angles shows that these charges generally increase with increasing HOH angle. This effect is partially canceled by a decrease in the charge of the hydrogen atom when a hydrogen bond is broken. The extent of this cancellation increases with the hydrogen bond strength, which is reflected in the observed insensitivity of the intensity of the stretch-bend transition to hydrogen-bond strength.
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- Rachel M Huchmala
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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Ramos INDF, da Silva MF, Lopes JMS, Cruz JN, Alves FS, do Rego JDAR, Costa MLD, Assumpção PPD, Barros Brasil DDS, Khayat AS. Extraction, Characterization, and Evaluation of the Cytotoxic Activity of Piperine in Its Isolated form and in Combination with Chemotherapeutics against Gastric Cancer. Molecules 2023; 28:5587. [PMID: 37513459 PMCID: PMC10385350 DOI: 10.3390/molecules28145587] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2023] [Revised: 06/30/2023] [Accepted: 07/05/2023] [Indexed: 07/30/2023] Open
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Gastric cancer is one of the most frequent types of neoplasms worldwide, usually presenting as aggressive and difficult-to-manage tumors. The search for new structures with anticancer potential encompasses a vast research field in which natural products arise as promising alternatives. In this scenario, piperine, an alkaloid of the Piper species, has received attention due to its biological activity, including anticancer attributes. The present work proposes three heating-independent, reliable, low-cost, and selective methods for obtaining piperine from Piper nigrum L. (Black pepper). Electronic (SEM) and optical microscopies, X-ray diffraction, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopies (13C and 1H NMR), and optical spectroscopies (UV-Vis, photoluminescence, and FTIR) confirm the obtention of piperine crystals. The MTT assay reveals that the piperine samples exhibit good cytotoxic activity against primary and metastasis models of gastric cancer cell lines from the Brazilian Amazon. The samples showed selective cytotoxicity on the evaluated models, revealing higher effectiveness in cells bearing a higher degree of aggressiveness. Moreover, the investigated piperine crystals demonstrated the ability to act as a good cytotoxicity enhancer when combined with traditional chemotherapeutics (5-FU and GEM), allowing the drugs to achieve the same cytotoxic effect in cells employing lower concentrations. These results establish piperine as a promising molecule for therapy investigations in aggressive gastric cancer, both in its isolated form or as a bioenhancer.
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- Institute of Technology, Federal University of Pará, Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
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- Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Innovation, Federal University of Pará, Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
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- Institute of Technology, Federal University of Pará, Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Pharmaceutical Innovation, Federal University of Pará, Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
- Graduate Program in Science and Environment, Federal University of Pará, Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
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- Oncology Research Center, Federal University of Pará, Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
- Institute of Biological Science, Federal University of Pará, Belém 66075-110, PA, Brazil
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Isogai T, Uranagase M, Motobayashi K, Ogata S, Ikeda K. Probing collective terahertz vibrations of a hydrogen-bonded water network at buried electrochemical interfaces. Chem Sci 2023; 14:6531-6537. [PMID: 37350835 PMCID: PMC10284101 DOI: 10.1039/d3sc01734f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/04/2023] [Accepted: 05/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/24/2023] Open
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The exceptional properties of liquid water such as thermodynamic, physical, and dielectric anomalies originate mostly from the hydrogen-bond networks of water molecules. The structural and dynamic properties of the hydrogen-bond networks have a significant impact on many biological and chemical processes in aqueous systems. In particular, the properties of interfacial water molecules with termination of the network at a solid surface are crucial to understanding the role of water in heterogeneous reactions. However, direct monitoring of the dynamics of hydrogen-bonded interfacial water molecules has been limited because of the lack of a suitable surface-selective spectroscopic means in the terahertz (THz) frequency range where collective vibrations of water exist. Here we show that hydrogen-bond vibrations below 9 THz can be measured in situ at an electrochemical interface, which is buried between two THz-opaque media, by using a density of states format of surface-enhanced inelastic light scattering spectra. The interpretation of the obtained spectra over the range 0.3-6 THz indicates that the negatively charged surface accelerates collective translational motions of water molecules in the lateral direction with the increase of hydrogen-bond defects. Alternatively, the positively charged surface results in suppression of lateral mobility. This work gives a new perspective on in situ spectroscopic investigations in heterogeneous reactions.
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- Taichi Isogai
- Department of Physical Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology Nagoya 466-8555 Japan
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology Nagoya 466-8555 Japan
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology Nagoya 466-8555 Japan
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology Nagoya 466-8555 Japan
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering, Nagoya Institute of Technology Nagoya 466-8555 Japan
- Frontier Research Institute for Materials Science (FRIMS), Nagoya Institute of Technology Nagoya 466-8555 Japan
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Wang Y, Chen Z, Yang Y. Calculating Vibrational Excited State Absorptions with Excited State Constrained Minimized Energy Surfaces. J Phys Chem A 2023. [PMID: 37335973 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.3c01420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/21/2023]
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The modeling and interpretation of vibrational spectra are crucial for studying reaction dynamics using vibrational spectroscopy. Most prior theoretical developments focused on describing fundamental vibrational transitions while fewer developments focused on vibrational excited state absorptions. In this study, we present a new method that uses excited state constrained minimized energy surfaces (CMESs) to describe vibrational excited state absorptions. The excited state CMESs are obtained similarly to the previous ground state CMES development in our group but with additional wave function orthogonality constraints. Using a series of model systems, including the harmonic oscillator, Morse potential, double-well potential, quartic potential, and two-dimensional anharmonic potential, we demonstrate that this new procedure provides good estimations of the transition frequencies for vibrational excited state absorptions. These results are significantly better than those obtained from harmonic approximations using conventional potential energy surfaces, demonstrating the promise of excited state CMES-based methods for calculating vibrational excited state absorptions in real systems.
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- Yiwen Wang
- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin─Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin─Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Theoretical Chemistry Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin─Madison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Konstantinovsky D, Yan ECY, Hammes-Schiffer S. Characterizing Interfaces by Voronoi Tessellation. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:5260-5266. [PMID: 37265175 PMCID: PMC10344600 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c01159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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The chemistry of interfaces differs markedly from that of the bulk. Calculation of interfacial properties depends strongly on the definition of the interface, which can lead to ambiguous results that vary between studies. There is a need for a method that can explicitly define the interfaces and boundaries in molecular systems. Voronoi tessellation offers an attractive solution to this problem through its ability to determine neighbors among specified groups of atoms. Here we discuss three cases where Voronoi tessellation combined with modeling of vibrational sum frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy yields relevant insights: the breakdown of the air-water interface into clear and intuitive molecular layers, the study of the hydration shell in biological systems, and the acceleration of difficult spectral calculations where intermolecular vibrational couplings dominate. The utility of Voronoi tessellation has broad applications that extend beyond any single type of spectroscopy or system.
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- Daniel Konstantinovsky
- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 06511
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 06511
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 06511
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- Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 06511
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA 06511
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Pastorczak M, Duk K, Shahab S, Kananenka AA. Combinational Vibration Modes in H 2O/HDO/D 2O Mixtures Detected Thanks to the Superior Sensitivity of Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Scattering. J Phys Chem B 2023. [PMID: 37201478 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c01334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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Overtones and combinational modes frequently play essential roles in ultrafast vibrational energy relaxation in liquid water. However, these modes are very weak and often overlap with fundamental modes, particularly in isotopologues mixtures. We measured VV and HV Raman spectra of H2O and D2O mixtures with femtosecond stimulated Raman scattering (FSRS) and compared the results with calculated spectra. Specifically, we observed the mode at around 1850 cm-1 and assigned it to H-O-D bend + rocking libration. Second, we found that the H-O-D bend overtone band and the OD stretch + rocking libration combination band contribute to the band located between 2850 and 3050 cm-1. Furthermore, we assigned the broad band located between 4000 and 4200 cm-1 to be composed of combinational modes of high-frequency OH stretching modes with predominantly twisting and rocking librations. These results should help in a proper interpretation of Raman spectra of aqueous systems as well as in the identification of vibrational relaxation pathways in isotopically diluted water.
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- Marcin Pastorczak
- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Laser Centre, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Laser Centre, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Laser Centre, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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Krüger CR, Mowry NJ, Bongiovanni G, Drabbels M, Lorenz UJ. Electron diffraction of deeply supercooled water in no man's land. Nat Commun 2023; 14:2812. [PMID: 37198157 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-38520-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2023] [Accepted: 04/20/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023] Open
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A generally accepted understanding of the anomalous properties of water will only emerge if it becomes possible to systematically characterize water in the deeply supercooled regime, from where the anomalies appear to emanate. This has largely remained elusive because water crystallizes rapidly between 160 K and 232 K. Here, we present an experimental approach to rapidly prepare deeply supercooled water at a well-defined temperature and probe it with electron diffraction before crystallization occurs. We show that as water is cooled from room temperature to cryogenic temperature, its structure evolves smoothly, approaching that of amorphous ice just below 200 K. Our experiments narrow down the range of possible explanations for the origin of the water anomalies and open up new avenues for studying supercooled water.
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- Constantin R Krüger
- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory of Molecular Nanodynamics, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory of Molecular Nanodynamics, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory of Molecular Nanodynamics, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory of Molecular Nanodynamics, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory of Molecular Nanodynamics, CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.
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Bai J, Wang Z, Zhong C, Hou S, Lian J, Si Q, Gao F, Zhang F. Vibrational coupling with O-H stretching increases catalytic efficiency of sucrase in Fabry-Pérot microcavity. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2023; 652:31-34. [PMID: 36809702 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2023.02.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/27/2022] [Revised: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 02/11/2023] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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Vibrational strong coupling (VSC) has been reported as a polariton-based method for modulating the rate of biochemical reactions. Herein, we studied how VSC modulates the sucrose hydrolysis. By monitoring the refractive index-induced shift of Fabry-Pérot microcavity, in which the catalytic efficiency of sucrose hydrolysis can be increased at least two times, as VSC was tuned to resonate with the stretching vibration of O-H bonds. This research provides new evidence for applying VSC in life sciences, which holds great promise to improving enzymatic industries.
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- Jiaqi Bai
- The School of Biomedical Engineering, Guangzhou Medical University, Xinzao Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou, 511436, China
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- Key Laboratory of Optical Technology and Instrument for Medicine, Ministry of Education, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China
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- The School of Biomedical Engineering, Guangzhou Medical University, Xinzao Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou, 511436, China
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- The School of Biomedical Engineering, Guangzhou Medical University, Xinzao Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou, 511436, China
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- Key Laboratory of Optical Technology and Instrument for Medicine, Ministry of Education, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China
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- Key Laboratory of Optical Technology and Instrument for Medicine, Ministry of Education, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China
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- Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou, 325001, China
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- The School of Biomedical Engineering, Guangzhou Medical University, Xinzao Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou, 511436, China; Key Laboratory of Optical Technology and Instrument for Medicine, Ministry of Education, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200093, China; Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou, 325001, China.
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Begušić T, Blake GA. Two-dimensional infrared-Raman spectroscopy as a probe of water's tetrahedrality. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1950. [PMID: 37029146 PMCID: PMC10082090 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37667-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 04/09/2023] Open
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Two-dimensional spectroscopic techniques combining terahertz (THz), infrared (IR), and visible pulses offer a wealth of information about coupling among vibrational modes in molecular liquids, thus providing a promising probe of their local structure. However, the capabilities of these spectroscopies are still largely unexplored due to experimental limitations and inherently weak nonlinear signals. Here, through a combination of equilibrium-nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) and a tailored spectrum decomposition scheme, we identify a relationship between the tetrahedral order of liquid water and its two-dimensional IR-IR-Raman (IIR) spectrum. The structure-spectrum relationship can explain the temperature dependence of the spectral features corresponding to the anharmonic coupling between low-frequency intermolecular and high-frequency intramolecular vibrational modes of water. In light of these results, we propose new experiments and discuss the implications for the study of tetrahedrality of liquid water.
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- Tomislav Begušić
- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA.
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- Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA.
- Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, 91125, USA.
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Inoue K, Litman Y, Wilkins DM, Nagata Y, Okuno M. Is Unified Understanding of Vibrational Coupling of Water Possible? Hyper-Raman Measurement and Machine Learning Spectra. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:3063-3068. [PMID: 36947156 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c00398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The impact of the vibrational coupling of the OH stretch mode on the spectra differs significantly between IR and Raman spectra of water. Unified understanding of the vibrational couplings is not yet achieved. By using a different class of vibrational spectroscopy, hyper-Raman (HR) spectroscopy, together with machine-learning-assisted HR spectra calculation, we examine the impact of the vibrational couplings of water through the comparison of isotopically diluted H2O and pure H2O. We found that the isotopic dilution reduces the HR bandwidths, but the impact of the vibrational coupling is smaller than in the IR and parallel-polarized Raman. Machine learning HR spectra indicate that the intermolecular coupling plays a major role in broadening the bandwidth, while the intramolecular coupling is negligibly small, which is consistent with the IR and Raman spectra. Our result clearly demonstrates a limited impact of the intramolecular vibration, independent of the selection rules of vibrational spectroscopies.
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- Kazuki Inoue
- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
- Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, United Kingdom
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- Atomistic Simulation Centre, School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Ackermannweg 10, 55128 Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Basic Science, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
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Chen Y, Liu Z, Ji M. Imaging Low-Temperature Phases of Ice with Polarization-Resolved Hyperspectral Stimulated Raman Scattering Microscopy. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:2609-2616. [PMID: 36913684 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c09068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/15/2023]
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Water freezes into various phases of ice under different cryogenic temperatures and pressure conditions, such as ice Ih and ice XI at normal pressure. Vibrational imaging with high spectral, spatial, and polarization resolutions could provide detailed information on ice, including the phases and crystal orientations at the microscopic level. Here, we report in situ stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) imaging of ice to analyze the vibrational spectral changes of the OH stretching modes associated with the phase transition between ice Ih and ice XI. In addition, polarization-resolved measurements were performed to reveal the microcrystal orientations of the two phases of ice, with the spatial-dependent anisotropy pattern indicating the inhomogeneous distribution of their orientations. Furthermore, the angular patterns were theoretically explained by third-order nonlinear optics with the known crystal symmetries of the ice phases. Our work may provide new opportunities to investigate many intriguing physical chemistry properties of ice under low-temperature conditions.
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- Yaxin Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Human Phenome Institute, Academy for Engineering and Technology, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Human Phenome Institute, Academy for Engineering and Technology, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics and Department of Physics, Human Phenome Institute, Academy for Engineering and Technology, Key Laboratory of Micro and Nano Photonic Structures (Ministry of Education), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Yiwu Research Institute of Fudan University, Chengbei Road, Yiwu City, Zhejiang 322000, China
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Glotz G, Püschmann S, Haas M, Gescheidt G. Direct detection of photo-induced reactions by IR: from Brook rearrangement to photo-catalysis. Photochem Photobiol Sci 2023:10.1007/s43630-023-00406-4. [PMID: 36933157 DOI: 10.1007/s43630-023-00406-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/28/2023] [Indexed: 03/19/2023]
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In situ IR detection of photoreactions induced by the light of LEDs at appropriate wavelengths provides a simple, cost-effective, and versatile method to get insight into mechanistic details. In particular, conversions of functional groups can be selectively followed. Overlapping UV-Vis bands or fluorescence from the reactants and products and the incident light do not obstruct IR detection. Compared with in situ photo-NMR, our setup does not require tedious sample preparation (optical fibers) and offers a selective detection of reactions, even at positions where 1H-NMR lines overlap or 1H resonances are not clear-cut. We illustrate the applicability of our setup following the photo-Brook rearrangement of (adamant-1-yl-carbonyl)-tris(trimethylsilyl)silane, address photo-induced α-bond cleavage (1-hydroxycyclohexyl phenyl ketone), study photoreduction using tris(bipyridine)ruthenium(II), investigate photo-oxygenation of double bonds with molecular oxygen and the fluorescent 2,4,6-triphenylpyrylium photocatalyst, and address photo-polymerization. With the LED/FT-IR combination, reactions can be qualitatively followed in fluid solution, (highly) viscous environments, and in the solid state. Viscosity changes during the reaction (e.g., during a polymerization) do not obstruct the method.
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- Gabriel Glotz
- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/II, 8010, Graz, Austria.
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/IV, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/IV, 8010, Graz, Austria
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- Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Graz University of Technology, Stremayrgasse 9/II, 8010, Graz, Austria
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Han L, Sun Y, Wang Y, Fu H, Duan C, Wang M, Cai W, Shao X. Ultra-high resolution near-infrared spectrum by wavelet packet transform revealing the hydrogen bond interactions. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2023; 289:122233. [PMID: 36525810 DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2022.122233] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2022] [Revised: 12/02/2022] [Accepted: 12/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Resolution is always an obstacle to analyzing the fine structure of a spectrum. The problem is particularly serious in the analysis of the near-infrared (NIR) spectra of aqueous solutions, because the spectrum is generally composed of overlapping broad peaks making the understanding of the structures and the interactions notoriously difficult. In this work, wavelet packet transform (WPT) was adopted to enhance the resolution of the NIR spectra of aqueous mixtures. Due to the microscopic ability of WPT in both position and frequency, the fine details of a spectrum can be observed in the spectral components of different frequencies obtained by WPT decomposition. Ultra-high resolution spectrum can be obtained from the high-frequency component representing the spectral features. Spectral features of different hydrogen-bonded OH, as well as the OH in HOH and HOD, were identified from the high-resolution NIR spectra of water and heavy water mixtures and validated by the variation of the spectral intensity with the mole ratio of H2O and D2O. The high-resolution spectrum was further applied in analyzing the interaction of amine and water. The spectral features of the hydrogen bonding between CH/NH in tert-butylamine (TBA) and OH in water were observed. The structures of CH bonded to one water molecule, and the structures of NH connecting with one and two water molecules were identified.
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- Li Han
- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, College of Chemistry, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biosensing and Molecular Recognition, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Tianjin 300192, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, College of Chemistry, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biosensing and Molecular Recognition, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Tianjin 300192, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, College of Chemistry, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biosensing and Molecular Recognition, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Tianjin 300192, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, College of Chemistry, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biosensing and Molecular Recognition, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Tianjin 300192, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, College of Chemistry, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biosensing and Molecular Recognition, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Tianjin 300192, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, College of Chemistry, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biosensing and Molecular Recognition, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Tianjin 300192, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, College of Chemistry, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biosensing and Molecular Recognition, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Tianjin 300192, China
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- Research Center for Analytical Sciences, Frontiers Science Center for New Organic Matter, College of Chemistry, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biosensing and Molecular Recognition, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China; Haihe Laboratory of Sustainable Chemical Transformations, Tianjin 300192, China.
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Solhi L, Guccini V, Heise K, Solala I, Niinivaara E, Xu W, Mihhels K, Kröger M, Meng Z, Wohlert J, Tao H, Cranston ED, Kontturi E. Understanding Nanocellulose-Water Interactions: Turning a Detriment into an Asset. Chem Rev 2023; 123:1925-2015. [PMID: 36724185 PMCID: PMC9999435 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.2c00611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 36.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Modern technology has enabled the isolation of nanocellulose from plant-based fibers, and the current trend focuses on utilizing nanocellulose in a broad range of sustainable materials applications. Water is generally seen as a detrimental component when in contact with nanocellulose-based materials, just like it is harmful for traditional cellulosic materials such as paper or cardboard. However, water is an integral component in plants, and many applications of nanocellulose already accept the presence of water or make use of it. This review gives a comprehensive account of nanocellulose-water interactions and their repercussions in all key areas of contemporary research: fundamental physical chemistry, chemical modification of nanocellulose, materials applications, and analytical methods to map the water interactions and the effect of water on a nanocellulose matrix.
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- Laleh Solhi
- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, EspooFI-00076, Finland
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, EspooFI-00076, Finland
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, EspooFI-00076, Finland
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, EspooFI-00076, Finland
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, EspooFI-00076, Finland.,Department of Wood Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British ColumbiaV6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, EspooFI-00076, Finland.,Laboratory of Natural Materials Technology, Åbo Akademi University, TurkuFI-20500, Finland
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, EspooFI-00076, Finland
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, EspooFI-00076, Finland
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, EspooFI-00076, Finland.,Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou325001, China
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- Wallenberg Wood Science Centre (WWSC), Department of Fibre and Polymer Technology, School of Engineering Sciences in Chemistry, Biotechnology and Health, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, 10044Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, EspooFI-00076, Finland
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- Department of Wood Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British ColumbiaV6T 1Z4, Canada.,Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British ColumbiaV6T 1Z3, Canada
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- Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, Aalto University, EspooFI-00076, Finland
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Feng C, Xi J, Zhang Y, Jiang B, Zhou Y. Accurate and Interpretable Dipole Interaction Model-Based Machine Learning for Molecular Polarizability. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:1207-1217. [PMID: 36753749 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c01094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023]
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Polarizabilities play significant roles in describing dispersive and inductive interactions of the atom and molecular systems. However, an accurate prediction of molecular polarizabilities from first principles is computationally prohibitive. Although physical models or statistical machine learning models have been proposed, either a lack of accurate description of local chemical environments or demanding a large number of samples for training has limited their practical applications. In this study, we combine a physically inspired dipole interaction model and an accurate neural network method for predicting the polarizability tensors of molecules. With the local chemical environment precisely described and the requirement of rotational covariance naturally fulfilled, this hybrid model is proven to give an accurate molecular polarizability prediction, essentially reducing the number of training samples. The atomic polarizabilities are physically interpretable and transferable to larger molecules unseen in the training set. This promising method may find its wide range of applications, such as spectroscopic simulations and the construction of polarizable force fields.
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- Chaoqiang Feng
- Anhui Key Laboratory of Optoelectric Materials Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China.,Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Anhui Key Laboratory of Optoelectric Materials Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Department of Chemical Physics, Key Laboratory of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher Education Institutes, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
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- Anhui Key Laboratory of Optoelectric Materials Science and Technology, Department of Physics, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China
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Schienbein P. Spectroscopy from Machine Learning by Accurately Representing the Atomic Polar Tensor. J Chem Theory Comput 2023; 19:705-712. [PMID: 36695707 PMCID: PMC9933433 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00788] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Vibrational spectroscopy is a key technique to elucidate microscopic structure and dynamics. Without the aid of theoretical approaches, it is, however, often difficult to understand such spectra at a microscopic level. Ab initio molecular dynamics has repeatedly proved to be suitable for this purpose; however, the computational cost can be daunting. Here, the E(3)-equivariant neural network e3nn is used to fit the atomic polar tensor of liquid water a posteriori on top of existing molecular dynamics simulations. Notably, the introduced methodology is general and thus transferable to any other system as well. The target property is most fundamental and gives access to the IR spectrum, and more importantly, it is a highly powerful tool to directly assign IR spectral features to nuclear motion─a connection which has been pursued in the past but only using severe approximations due to the prohibitive computational cost. The herein introduced methodology overcomes this bottleneck. To benchmark the machine learning model, the IR spectrum of liquid water is calculated, indeed showing excellent agreement with the explicit reference calculation. In conclusion, the presented methodology gives a new route to calculate accurate IR spectra from molecular dynamics simulations and will facilitate the understanding of such spectra on a microscopic level.
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Gao J, Xu X, Yu X, Fu Y, Zhang H, Gu S, Cao D, Guo Q, Xu L, Ding J. Quantitatively relating magnetic resonance T1 and T2 to glycosaminoglycan and collagen concentrations mediated by penetrated contrast agents and biomacromolecule-bound water. Regen Biomater 2023; 10:rbad035. [PMID: 37206162 PMCID: PMC10191676 DOI: 10.1093/rb/rbad035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2023] [Revised: 04/03/2023] [Accepted: 04/07/2023] [Indexed: 05/21/2023] Open
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a promising non-invasive method to assess cartilage regeneration based on the quantitative relationship between MRI features and concentrations of the major components in the extracellular matrix (ECM). To this end, in vitro experiments are performed to investigate the relationship and reveal the underlying mechanism. A series of collagen (COL) and glycosaminoglycan (GAG) solutions at different concentrations are prepared, and T1 and T2 relaxation times are measured with or without a contrast agent (Gd-DTPA2-) by MRI. Fourier transform infrared spectrometry is also used to measure the contents of biomacromolecule-bound water and other water, allowing theoretical derivation of the relationship between biomacromolecules and the resulting T2 values. It has been revealed that the MRI signal in the biomacromolecule aqueous systems is mainly influenced by the protons in hydrogens of biomacromolecule-bound water, which we divide into inner-bound water and outer-bound water. We have also found that COL results in higher sensitivity of bound water than GAG in T2 mapping. Owing to the charge effect, GAG regulates the penetration of the contrast agent during dialysis and has a more significant effect on T1 values than COL. Considering that COL and GAG are the most abundant biomacromolecules in the cartilage, this study is particularly useful for the real-time MRI-guided assessment of cartilage regeneration. A clinical case is reported as an in vivo demonstration, which is consistent with our in vitro results. The established quantitative relation plays a critical academic role in establishing an international standard ISO/TS24560-1:2022 'Clinical evaluation of regenerative knee articular cartilage using delayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC) and T2 mapping' drafted by us and approved by International Standard Organization.
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- Jingming Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Correspondence address. E-mail: (X.X.); (J.D.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Institute of Orthopedics, The First Medical Center, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing Key Lab of Regenerative Medicine in Orthopedics, Key Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Trauma and War Injuries of PLA, Beijing 100853, China
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- Institute for Medical Device Control, National Institutes for Food and Drug Control, Beijing 102629, China
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Carr AJ, Lee SE, Kumal RR, Bu W, Uysal A. Convenient Confinement: Interplay of Solution Conditions and Graphene Oxide Film Structure on Rare Earth Separations. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:57133-57143. [PMID: 36533427 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c16156] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Graphene oxide (GO) membranes are excellent candidates for a range of separation applications, including rare earth segregation and radionuclide decontamination. Understanding nanoscale water and ion behavior near interfacial GO is critical for groundbreaking membrane advances, including improved selectivity and permeability. We experimentally examine the impact of solution conditions on water and lanthanide interactions with interfacial GO films and connect these results to GO membrane performance. The investigation of the confined films at the air-water interface with a combination of surface-specific spectroscopy and X-ray scattering techniques allows us to understand water and ion behaviors separately. Sum frequency generation spectroscopy reveals a dramatic change in interfacial water organization because of graphene oxide film deprotonation. Interfacial X-ray fluorescence measurements show a 17× increase in adsorbed lanthanide to the GO film from subphase pH 3 to pH 9. Liquid surface X-ray reflectivity data show an additional 2.7 e- per Å2 for GO films at pH 9 versus pH 3 as well. These results are connected to GO membrane performance, which show increased selectivity and decreased flux for membranes filtering pH 9 solutions. We posit insoluble lanthanide hydroxides form at higher pHs. Taken together, these results highlight the importance of interfacial experiments on model GO systems.
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- Amanda J Carr
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois60439, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois60439, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois60439, United States
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- NSF's ChemMatCARS, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois60637, United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, Illinois60439, United States
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Zhang M, Xiao W, Zhang C, Zhang L. Terahertz Kerr Effect of Liquids. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 22:9424. [PMID: 36502125 PMCID: PMC9739268 DOI: 10.3390/s22239424] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Revised: 11/24/2022] [Accepted: 11/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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In recent years, tremendous advancements have been made in various technologies such as far-infrared, low-frequency Raman, and two-dimensional (2D) Raman terahertz (THz) spectroscopies. A coherent method has emerged from numerous experimental and theoretical investigations of molecular dynamics in liquids by comparing linear and non-linear spectroscopic techniques. Intermolecular hydrogen bond vibration, molecular reorientation motion, and interaction between molecule/ionic solute and hydrogen bonds have been demonstrated to occur in the THz region, which are closely related to their physical/chemical properties and structural dynamics. However, precise probing of various modes of motion is difficult because of the complexity of the collective and cooperative motion of molecules and spectral overlap of related modes. With the development of THz science and technology, current state-of-the-art THz sources can generate pulsed electric fields with peak intensities of the order of microvolts per centimeter (MV/cm). Such strong fields enable the use of THz waves as the light source for non-linear polarization of the medium and in turn leads to the development of the emerging THz Kerr effect (TKE) technique. Many low-frequency molecular motions, such as the collective directional motion of molecules and cooperative motion under the constraint of weak intermolecular interactions, are resonantly excited by an intense THz electric field. Thus, the TKE technique provides an interesting prospect for investigating low-frequency dynamics of different media. In view of this, this paper first summarizes the research work on TKE spectroscopy by taking a solid material without low-frequency molecular motions as an example. Starting from the principle of TKE technology and its application in investigating the properties of solid matter, we have explored the low-frequency molecular dynamics of liquid water and aqueous solutions using TKE. Liquid water is a core of life and possesses many extraordinary physical and biochemical properties. The hydrogen bond network plays a crucial role in these properties and is the main reason for its various kinetic and thermodynamic properties, which differ from those of other liquids. However, the structure of the hydrogen bond network between water and solutes is not well known. Therefore, evaluating the hydrogen bond-related kinetic properties of liquid water is important.
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Hu Q, Zhao H, Ouyang S, Liang Y, Yang H, Zhu X. The water structure around chloride ion investigated from D2O ↔ H2O substitution effect. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120702] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Bai Y, Zhou D, Mukherjee S, Liu J, Bian H, Fang Y. Distinct Hydrogen Bonding Dynamics Underlies the Microheterogeneity in DMF-Water Mixtures. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:9663-9672. [PMID: 36351006 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c06335] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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The hydrogen bonding interaction between the amide functional group and water is fundamental to understanding the liquid-liquid heterogeneity in biological systems. Herein, the structure and dynamics of the N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF)-water mixtures have been investigated by linear and nonlinear IR spectroscopies, using the hydroxyl stretch and extrinsic probe of thiocyanate as local vibrational reporters. According to vibrational relaxation dynamics measurements, the orientational dynamics of water is not directly tied to those of DMF molecules. Wobbling-in-a-cone analysis demonstrates that the water molecules have varying degrees of angular restriction depending on their composition due to the formation of specific water-DMF networks. Because of the preferential solvation by DMF molecules, the rotational dynamics of the extrinsic probe is slowed significantly, and its rotational time constants are correlated to the change of solution viscosity. The unique structural dynamics observed in the DMF-water mixtures is expected to provide important insights into the underlying mechanism of microscopic heterogeneity in binary mixtures.
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- Yimin Bai
- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an710119, China
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Kraka E, Quintano M, La Force HW, Antonio JJ, Freindorf M. The Local Vibrational Mode Theory and Its Place in the Vibrational Spectroscopy Arena. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:8781-8798. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c05962] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Elfi Kraka
- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Ave, Dallas, Texas75275-0314, United States
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- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Ave, Dallas, Texas75275-0314, United States
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- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Ave, Dallas, Texas75275-0314, United States
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- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Ave, Dallas, Texas75275-0314, United States
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- Computational and Theoretical Chemistry Group (CATCO), Department of Chemistry, Southern Methodist University, 3215 Daniel Ave, Dallas, Texas75275-0314, United States
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Stefaniuk A, Gawinkowski S, Golec B, Gorski A, Szutkowski K, Waluk J, Poznański J. Isotope effects observed in diluted D 2O/H 2O mixtures identify HOD-induced low-density structures in D 2O but not H 2O. Sci Rep 2022; 12:18732. [PMID: 36333587 PMCID: PMC9636167 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-23551-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2022] [Accepted: 11/02/2022] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
Abstract
Normal and heavy water are solvents most commonly used to study the isotope effect. The isotope effect of a solvent significantly influences the behavior of a single molecule in a solution, especially when there are interactions between the solvent and the solute. The influence of the isotope effect becomes more significant in D2O/H2O since the hydrogen bond in H2O is slightly weaker than its counterpart (deuterium bond) in D2O. Herein, we characterize the isotope effect in a mixture of normal and heavy water on the solvation of a HOD molecule. We show that the HOD molecule affects the proximal solvent molecules, and these disturbances are much more significant in heavy water than in normal water. Moreover, in D2O, we observe the formation of low-density structures indicative of an ordering of the solvent around the HOD molecule. The qualitative differences between HOD interaction with D2O and H2O were consistently confirmed with Raman spectroscopy and NMR diffusometry.
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Affiliation(s)
- Anna Stefaniuk
- grid.418825.20000 0001 2216 0871Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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- grid.425290.80000 0004 0369 6111Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland
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- grid.425290.80000 0004 0369 6111Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland
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- grid.425290.80000 0004 0369 6111Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland
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- grid.5633.30000 0001 2097 3545Adam Mickiewicz University, NanoBioMedical Centre, Wszechnicy Piastowskiej 3, 61-614 Poznan, Poland
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- grid.425290.80000 0004 0369 6111Institute of Physical Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland ,grid.440603.50000 0001 2301 5211Faculty of Mathematics and Science, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Dewajtis 5, 01-815 Warsaw, Poland
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- grid.418825.20000 0001 2216 0871Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences, Pawińskiego 5a, 02-106 Warsaw, Poland
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Volkov AA, Chuchupal SV. Dielectric spectra of liquid water: Ultrabroadband modeling and interpretation. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/31/2022]
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