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Skarmoutsos I. Substantial breakdown of the hydrogen-bonding network, local density inhomogeneities and fluid-liquid structural transitions in supercritical octanol-1: A molecular dynamics investigation. J Chem Phys 2024; 161:044506. [PMID: 39056384 DOI: 10.1063/5.0219417] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/17/2024] [Accepted: 07/11/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
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Molecular dynamics simulations have been employed to explore the hydrogen-bonding structure and dynamics in supercritical octanol-1 at a near-critical temperature and up to high densities and pressures. A substantial breakdown of the hydrogen-bonding network when going from ambient-liquid to supercritical conditions is revealed. The fraction of the non-hydrogen bonded molecules significantly increases in supercritical octanol-1, and a substantial decrease in the intermittent hydrogen-bond lifetime is observed. This behavior is also reflected on the maximum local density augmentation, which is comparable to the values obtained for non-polar and non-hydrogen bonded fluids. The existence of a structural transition from an inhomogeneous fluid phase to a soft-liquid one at densities higher than 2.0 ρc is also revealed. At higher densities, a significant change in the reorientational relaxation process is observed, reflected on the significant increase in the ratio of the Legendre reorientational times τ1R/τ2R. The latter becomes much higher than the value predicted by the Debye model of diffusive reorientation and the corresponding ratio for ambient liquid octanol-1. The non-polar tail of octanol-1 under supercritical conditions reorients more slowly in comparison with the polar tail. Interestingly, the opposite behavior is observed for the ambient liquid, further verifying the strong effect of the breakdown of the hydrogen bonding network on the properties of supercritical octanol-1. In accordance with the above-mentioned findings, the static dielectric constant of supercritical octanol-1 is very low even at high densities and pressures, comparable to the values obtained for non-polar and non-hydrogen bonded fluids.
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- Ioannis Skarmoutsos
- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
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Dong M, Xu J, Wang Y. Critical Threshold for Bubble-like Nucleation during Pseudoboiling at Supercritical Pressures. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2024; 40:13276-13291. [PMID: 38861685 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.4c01477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2024]
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Supercritical pseudoboiling was proposed in the 1950s-1960s. Recently, evaporation-like and boiling-like heat transfer have been directly observed in macroscopic scales, and the contribution of pseudoboiling to the total heat transfer rate has been quantitatively characterized experimentally. Here, we explore the critical threshold to generate a bubble-like nucleus at supercritical pressure at the atomic scale, characterized by the total energy (Te = Ke + Pe, where Ke and Pe are kinetic energy and potential energy, respectively). Molecular dynamics simulations are performed, including an argon fluid box heated by a solid wall having its temperature above the fluid temperature. The fluid pressure is controlled by a movable piston wall opposite the heating wall. The effects of pressure, nonuniform heating, and surface wettability on pseudoboiling are investigated. It is found that the criterion Te > 0 should be satisfied for subcritical boiling, matching that reported previously. The criterion for supercritical pseudoboiling was newly obtained such that Te > 0.012 eV at 8 MPa for argon, but the threshold increases as pressure increases. Nonuniform heating and surface wettability do not affect the critical threshold of Te for bubble-like nucleation but affect the location of the initially generated bubble-like nucleus and the stabilized pseudofilm or pseudonucleate heat transfer modes, where the former is similar to (vapor) film boiling and the latter is similar to nucleate boiling at subcritical pressure. Because pseudoboiling occurs without surface tension at supercritical pressure, we observe that the bubble-like structure may not display a perfectly smooth gas-liquid interface but may display an irregular pattern instead. Our work explains pseudoboiling from the viewpoint of the competition between kinetic energy and potential energy and presents a link regarding boiling in the two domains of subcritical pressure and supercritical pressure.
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- Ming Dong
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206, China
- Key Laboratory of Power Station Energy Transfer Conversion and System, North China Electric Power University, Ministry of Education, Beijing 102206, China
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- Beijing Huairou Laboratory, Beijing 101400, China
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Ranieri U, Formisano F, Gorelli FA, Santoro M, Koza MM, De Francesco A, Bove LE. Crossover from gas-like to liquid-like molecular diffusion in a simple supercritical fluid. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4142. [PMID: 38755136 PMCID: PMC11099187 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47961-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 04/15/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024] Open
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According to textbooks, no physical observable can be discerned allowing to distinguish a liquid from a gas beyond the critical point. Yet, several proposals have been put forward challenging this view and various transition boundaries between a gas-like and a liquid-like behaviour, including the so-called Widom and Frenkel lines, and percolation line, have been suggested to delineate the supercritical state space. Here we report observation of a crossover from gas-like (Gaussian) to liquid-like (Lorentzian) self-dynamic structure factor by incoherent quasi-elastic neutron scattering measurements on supercritical fluid methane as a function of pressure, along the 200 K isotherm. The molecular self-diffusion coefficient was derived from the best Gaussian (at low pressures) or Lorentzian (at high pressures) fits to the neutron spectra. The Gaussian-to-Lorentzian crossover is progressive and takes place at about the Widom line intercept (59 bar). At considerably higher pressures, a liquid-like jump diffusion mechanism properly describes the supercritical fluid on both sides of the Frenkel line. The present observation of a gas-like to liquid-like crossover in the self dynamics of a simple supercritical fluid confirms emerging views on the unexpectedly complex physics of the supercritical state, and could have planet-wide implications and possible industrial applications in green chemistry.
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- Umbertoluca Ranieri
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Roma, 00187, Italy
- Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions and School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK
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- CNR - Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM), Grenoble, INSIDE@ILL, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, Cedex 9, France.
- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, Cedex 9, France.
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research (HPSTAR), 1690 Cailun Road, Shanghai, 201203, China.
- Shanghai Advanced Research in Physical Sciences (SHARPS), Pudong, Shanghai, 201203, China.
- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR-INO, Via Nello Carrara 1, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), 50019, Italy.
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- Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto Nazionale di Ottica, CNR-INO, Via Nello Carrara 1, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), 50019, Italy
- European Laboratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy, LENS, Via Nello Carrara 1, Sesto Fiorentino (FI), 50019, Italy
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- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
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- CNR - Istituto Officina dei Materiali (IOM), Grenoble, INSIDE@ILL, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, Grenoble, Cedex 9, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, Roma, 00187, Italy
- Laboratory of Quantum Magnetism, Institute of Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland
- Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, Sorbonne Université, UMR CNRS 7590, 5 Place Jussieu, Paris, 75005, France
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Boillat P, Trtik P, Lehmann EH, Forss S, Kaestner A, Mannes D, Morgano M, Walfort B, Strobl M. Who made the noise? Systematic approach for the assessment of neutron imaging scintillators. OPTICS EXPRESS 2024; 32:14471-14489. [PMID: 38859391 DOI: 10.1364/oe.511939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 02/02/2024] [Indexed: 06/12/2024]
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We propose a method to analyze the characteristics of scintillator screens for neutron imaging applications. Using calculations based on the theory of cascaded linear steps as well as experimental measurements, we compared the characteristics of different lithium- and gadolinium-based scintillator screens. Our results show that, despite their much lower light output, gadolinium-based scintillators outperform lithium-based scintillators in terms of noise characteristics for a variety of imaging setups. However, the relative performance of scintillator screens is highly dependent on the other setup characteristics such as the beam spectrum, field of view, used optical lens and size of the camera sensor. Consequently, the selection of the best scintillator screen - as well as the scintillator characteristics assessment in new developments - requires a systematic consideration of all these elements, as enabled by the framework presented here.
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Simeski F, Ihme M. Supercritical fluids behave as complex networks. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1996. [PMID: 37032390 PMCID: PMC10083177 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37645-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 04/11/2023] Open
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Supercritical fluids play a key role in environmental, geological, and celestial processes, and are of great importance to many scientific and engineering applications. They exhibit strong variations in thermodynamic response functions, which has been hypothesized to stem from the microstructural behavior. However, a direct connection between thermodynamic conditions and the microstructural behavior, as described by molecular clusters, remains an outstanding issue. By utilizing a first-principles-based criterion and self-similarity analysis, we identify energetically localized molecular clusters whose size distribution and connectivity exhibit self-similarity in the extended supercritical phase space. We show that the structural response of these clusters follows a complex network behavior whose dynamics arises from the energetics of isotropic molecular interactions. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a hidden variable network model can accurately describe the structural and dynamical response of supercritical fluids. These results highlight the need for constitutive models and provide a basis to relate the fluid microstructure to thermodynamic response functions.
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- Filip Simeski
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA.
- Department of Photon Science, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA.
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Lyu H, Wang H, Huang Y, Niu F, Guo Z, Bi Q. Visualization experiments and piston effect of heat transfer for supercritical carbon dioxide. J Supercrit Fluids 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2023.105905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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Liu (刘洪勤) H. From the vapour–liquid coexistence region to the supercritical fluid: the van der Waals fluid. Mol Phys 2022. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2022.2155260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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- Hongqin Liu (刘洪勤)
- Integrated High Performance Computing Branch, Shared Services Canada, Montreal, Canada
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Skarmoutsos I, Samios J, Guardia E. Fingerprints of the Crossing of the Frenkel and Melting Line on the Properties of High-Pressure Supercritical Water. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:7636-7644. [PMID: 35952379 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Using molecular dynamics simulations in combination with the two-phase thermodynamic model, we reveal novel characteristic fingerprints of the crossing of the Frenkel and melting line on the properties of high-pressure water at a near-critical temperature (1.03Tc). The crossing of the Frenkel line at about 1.17 GPa is characterized by a crossover in the rotational and translational entropy ratio Srot/Strans, indicating a change in the coupling between translational and rotational motions which is also reflected in the shape of the rotational density of states. The observed isosbestic points in the translational and rotational density of states are also blue-shifted at density and pressure conditions higher than the ones corresponding to the Frenkel line. The first-order phase transition from a rigid liquid to a face-centered cubic plastic crystal phase at about 8.5 GPa is reflected in the discontinuous changes in the translational and rotational entropy, particularly in the significant increase of the ratio Srot/Strans. A noticeable discontinuous increase of the dielectric constant has also been revealed when crossing this melting line, which is attributed to the different arrangement of the water molecules in the plastic crystal phase. The reorientational dynamics in the plastic crystal phase is faster in comparison with the "rigid" liquid-like phase, but it remains unchanged upon a further pressure increase in the range of 8.5-11 GPa.
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- Ioannis Skarmoutsos
- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Ioannina, 45110 Ioannina, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis 157-71, Athens, Greece
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- Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord-Edifici B4-B5, Jordi Girona 1-3, Barcelona E-08034, Spain
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In-situ Raman spectral investigation into hydrogen bonding characteristics of supercritical water. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.118965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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It is demonstrated that the crossover between gas- and liquid-like regions on the phase diagram of the Lennard-Jones system occurs at a fixed value of the density divided by its value at the freezing point, ρ/ ρfr ≃ 0.35. This definition is consistent with other definitions proposed recently. As a result, a very simple practical expression for the gas-to-liquid crossover line emerges.
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- S. A. Khrapak
- Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences, 125412 Moscow, Russia
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Zanetti-Polzi L, Daidone I, Amadei A. A general statistical mechanical model for fluid system thermodynamics: Application to sub- and super-critical water. J Chem Phys 2022; 156:044506. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0079206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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- Laura Zanetti-Polzi
- Center S3, CNR-Institute of Nanoscience, Via Campi 213/A, 41125 Modena, Italy
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- Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L’Aquila, via Vetoio (Coppito 1), 67010 L’Aquila, Italy
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- Department of Chemical and Technological Sciences, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Via della Ricerca Scientifica, I-00185 Rome, Italy
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Numerical Investigation of Heat Transfer Characteristics of scCO 2 Flowing in a Vertically-Upward Tube with High Mass Flux. ENTROPY 2022; 24:e24010079. [PMID: 35052105 PMCID: PMC8774452 DOI: 10.3390/e24010079] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2021] [Revised: 12/27/2021] [Accepted: 12/28/2021] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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In this work, the heat transfer characteristics of supercritical pressure CO2 in vertical heating tube with 10 mm inner diameter under high mass flux were investigated by using an SST k-ω turbulent model. The influences of inlet temperature, heat flux, mass flux, buoyancy and flow acceleration on the heat transfer of supercritical pressure CO2 were discussed. Our results show that the buoyancy and flow acceleration effect based on single phase fluid assumption fail to explain the current simulation results. Here, supercritical pseudo-boiling theory is introduced to deal with heat transfer of scCO2. scCO2 is treated to have a heterogeneous structure consisting of vapor-like fluid and liquid-like fluid. A physical model of scCO2 heat transfer in vertical heating tube was established containing a gas-like layer near the wall and a liquid-like fluid layer. Detailed distribution of thermophysical properties and turbulence in radial direction show that scCO2 heat transfer is greatly affected by the thickness of gas-like film, thermal properties of gas-like film and turbulent kinetic energy in the near-wall region. Buoyancy parameters Bu < 10−5, Bu* < 5.6 × 10−7 and flow acceleration parameter Kv < 3 × 10−6 in this paper, which indicate that buoyancy effect and flow acceleration effect has no influence on heat transfer of scCO2 under high mass fluxes. This work successfully explains the heat transfer mechanism of supercritical fluid under high mass flux.
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Heat transfer deterioration and visualized flow state of supercritical CO2 in a vertical non-circular channel. NUCLEAR ENGINEERING AND DESIGN 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.nucengdes.2021.111574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The hybrid ergodic lattice gas model for critical fluids and the molecular nature of the critical point. J Supercrit Fluids 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2021.105505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Karalis K, Zahn D, Prasianakis NI, Niceno B, Churakov SV. Deciphering the molecular mechanism of water boiling at heterogeneous interfaces. Sci Rep 2021; 11:19858. [PMID: 34615926 PMCID: PMC8494797 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99229-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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Water boiling control evolution of natural geothermal systems is widely exploited in industrial processes due to the unique non-linear thermophysical behavior. Even though the properties of water both in the liquid and gas state have been extensively studied experimentally and by numerical simulations, there is still a fundamental knowledge gap in understanding the mechanism of the heterogeneous nucleate boiling controlling evaporation and condensation. In this study, the molecular mechanism of bubble nucleation at the hydrophilic and hydrophobic solid-water interface was determined by performing unbiased molecular dynamics simulations using the transition path sampling scheme. Analyzing the liquid to vapor transition path, the initiation of small void cavities (vapor bubbles nuclei) and their subsequent merging mechanism, leading to successively growing vacuum domains (vapor phase), has been elucidated. The molecular mechanism and the boiling nucleation sites' location are strongly dependent on the solid surface hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity. Then simulations reveal the impact of the surface functionality on the adsorbed thin water molecules film structuring and the location of high probability nucleation sites. Our findings provide molecular-scale insights into the computational aided design of new novel materials for more efficient heat removal and rationalizing the damage mechanisms.
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie/Computer Chemie Centrum, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- Laboratory for Waste Management (LES), Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Scientific Computing and Modelling (LSM), Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute of Geological Sciences, University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland.
- Laboratory for Waste Management (LES), Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland.
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Corsaro C, Fazio E. From Critical Point to Critical Point: The Two-States Model Describes Liquid Water Self-Diffusion from 623 to 126 K. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26195899. [PMID: 34641442 PMCID: PMC8512083 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26195899] [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: 09/03/2021] [Revised: 09/23/2021] [Accepted: 09/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Liquid’s behaviour, when close to critical points, is of extreme importance both for fundamental research and industrial applications. A detailed knowledge of the structural–dynamical correlations in their proximity is still today a target to reach. Liquid water anomalies are ascribed to the presence of a second liquid–liquid critical point, which seems to be located in the very deep supercooled regime, even below 200 K and at pressure around 2 kbar. In this work, the thermal behaviour of the self-diffusion coefficient for liquid water is analyzed, in terms of a two-states model, for the first time in a very wide thermal region (126 K < T < 623 K), including those of the two critical points. Further, the corresponding configurational entropy and isobaric-specific heat have been evaluated within the same interval. The two liquid states correspond to high and low-density water local structures that play a primary role on water dynamical behavior over 500 K.
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Skarmoutsos I, Henao A, Guardia E, Samios J. On the Different Faces of the Supercritical Phase of Water at a Near-Critical Temperature: Pressure-Induced Structural Transitions Ranging from a Gaslike Fluid to a Plastic Crystal Polymorph. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:10260-10272. [PMID: 34491748 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c05053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The present study reports a systematic analysis of a wide variety of structural, thermodynamic, and dynamic properties of supercritical water along the near-critical isotherm of T = 1.03Tc and up to extreme pressures, using molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. The methodology employed provides solid evidence about the existence of a structural transition from a liquidlike fluid to a compressed, tightly packed liquid, in the density and pressure region around 3.4ρc and 1.17 GPa, introducing an alternative approach to locate the crossing of the Frenkel line. Around 8.5 GPa another transition to a face-centered-cubic plastic crystal polymorph with density 5.178ρc is also observed, further confirmed by Gibbs free energy calculations using the two-phase thermodynamic model. The isobaric heat capacity maximum, closely related to the crossing of the Widom line, has also been observed around 0.8ρc, where the local density augmentation is also maximized. Another structural transition has been observed at 0.2ρc, related to the transformation of the fluid to a dilute gas at lower densities. These findings indicate that a near-critical isotherm can be divided into different domains where supercritical water exhibits distinct behavior, ranging from a gaslike one to a plastic crystal one.
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- Ioannis Skarmoutsos
- Theoretical and Physical Chemistry Institute, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Vas. Constantinou 48, GR-116 35, Athens, Greece
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- Dynamics of Condensed Matter and Center for Sustainable Systems Design, Department of Chemistry, University of Paderborn, Warburger Strasse 100, D-33098 Paderborn, Germany
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- Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord-Edifici B4-B5, Jordi Girona 1-3, Barcelona E-08034, Spain
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- Department of Chemistry, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis GR-157 71, Athens, Greece
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Xu J, Wang Y, Ma X. Phase distribution including a bubblelike region in supercritical fluid. Phys Rev E 2021; 104:014142. [PMID: 34412334 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.014142] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Accepted: 07/02/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Pseudoboiling in supercritical fluid (SF) has been paid great attention in recent years. Available works mainly focus on thermodynamics analysis. Fewer studies were reported on the spatial time phase distribution. Here, SF is investigated in a multiphase fluid framework using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A simulation box contains 10 976 argon atoms, with periodic boundary conditions applied on all the box surfaces. Pressure and temperature are well controlled. Based on MD simulation results, an onset pseudoboiling temperature T^{-} and a termination pseudoboiling temperature T^{+} are defined using the neighboring molecules method, the radial distribution function method, and the two-body excess entropy method. The two transition temperatures divide the whole phase diagram into three regimes of liquidlike, two-phase-like (TPL), and gaslike, and the MD determined T^{-} and T^{+} well matched the thermodynamics-determined values. In the TPL regime, nanovoids are observed to have two distinct characteristics: (1) Particles are sparsely distributed to have gas density inside the void, but are densely populated to have liquid density outside the void. (2) Voids have a curved interface. These characteristics are very similar to bubble characteristics in subcritical pressure. Hence, voids in the supercritical state are called "bubblelike" in this paper. Nonlinear dynamics demonstrates chaotic behavior in the TPL regime, similar to the two-phase regime in the subcritical domain. The above findings give strong evidence that SF in the TPL regime consists of a mixture of bubblelike voids and surrounding liquids. Our work highlights the multiphase feature of a SF, hence, the well-established multiphase theory in subcritical pressures can be introduced to handle the complex SF.
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- Jinliang Xu
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China.,Key Laboratory of Power Station Energy Transfer Conversion and System, North China Electric Power University, Ministry of Education, Beijing, 102206, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Multiphase Flow and Heat Transfer for Low Grade Energy Utilization, North China Electric Power University, Beijing, 102206, China
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Manipulation of epsilon-near-zero wavelength for the optimization of linear and nonlinear absorption by supercritical fluid. Sci Rep 2021; 11:15936. [PMID: 34354198 PMCID: PMC8342460 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-95513-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Accepted: 07/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We introduce supercritical fluid (SCF) technology to epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) photonics for the first time and experimentally demonstrate the manipulation of the ENZ wavelength for the enhancement of linear and nonlinear optical absorption in ENZ indium tin oxide (ITO) nanolayer. Inspired by the SCF’s applications in repairing defects, reconnecting bonds, introducing dopants, and boosting the performance of microelectronic devices, here, this technique is used to exploit the influence of the electronic properties on optical characteristics. By reducing oxygen vacancies and electron scattering in the SCF oxidation process, the ENZ wavelength is shifted by 23.25 nm, the intrinsic loss is reduced by 20%, and the saturable absorption modulation depth is enhanced by > 30%. The proposed technique offers a time-saving low-temperature technique to optimize the linear and nonlinear absorption performance of plasmonics-based ENZ nanophotonic devices.
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Quasi-equilibrium phase coexistence in single component supercritical fluids. Nat Commun 2021; 12:4630. [PMID: 34330902 PMCID: PMC8324840 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-24895-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2020] [Accepted: 07/05/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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In their supercritical state simple fluids are generally thought to assume a homogeneous phase throughout all combinations of pressures and temperatures, although various response functions or transport properties may exhibit anomalous behavior, characterizing a state point as either more gas-like or liquid-like, respectively. While a large body of results has been compiled in the last two decades regarding the details of the supercritical phase in thermodynamic equilibrium, far less studies have been dedicated to out-of-equilibrium situations that nevertheless occur along with the handling of substances such as carbon dioxide or Argon. Here we consider successive compression-expansion cycles of equal amounts of Argon injected into a high-pressure chamber, traversing the critical pressure at two times the critical temperature. Due to expansion cooling, the fluid temporarily becomes sub-critical, and light scattering experiments show the formation of sub-micron-sized droplets and nanometer-scale clusters, both of which are distinct from spontaneous density fluctuations of the supercritical background and persist for a surprisingly long time. A kinetic rate model of the exchange of liquid droplets with the smaller clusters can explain this behavior. Our results indicate non-equilibrium aspects of supercritical fluids that may prove important for their processing in industrial applications. In their supercritical state simple fluids are generally thought to assume a homogeneous phase throughout. Lee et al. find that liquid droplets temporarily formed in a supercritical background after sub-critical injection can survive for a surprisingly long time.
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Bell IH, Delage-Santacreu S, Hoang H, Galliero G. Dynamic Crossover in Fluids: From Hard Spheres to Molecules. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:6411-6417. [PMID: 34232673 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c01594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We propose a simple and generic definition of a demarcation reconciling structural and dynamic frameworks when combined with the entropy scaling framework. This crossover line between gas- and liquid-like behaviors is defined as the curve for which an individual property, the contribution to viscosity due to molecules' translation, is exactly equal to a collective property, the contribution to viscosity due to molecular interactions. Such a definition is shown to be consistent with the one based on the minima of the kinematic viscosity. For the hard sphere, this is shown to be an exact solution. For Lennard-Jones spheres and dimers and for some simple real fluids, this relation holds very well. This crossover line passes nearby the critical point, and for all studied fluids, it is well captured by the critical excess entropy curve for atomic fluids, emphasizing the link between transport properties and local structure.
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- Ian H Bell
- Applied Chemicals and Materials Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado 80305, United States
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- Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, e2s UPPA, Laboratoire de Mathematiques et de leurs Applications de Pau (IPRA, CNRS UMR5142), Pau 64000, France
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- Institute of Fundamental and Applied Sciences, Duy Tan University, 10C Tran Nhat Duat Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City 700000, Vietnam
- Faculty of Natural Sciences, Duy Tan University, Da Nang 550000, Vietnam
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- Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, e2s UPPA, TOTAL, CNRS, LFCR, UMR 5150, Laboratoire des fluides complexes et leurs reservoirs, Pau 64000, France
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Jiménez JL, Crone SPG, Fogh E, Zayed ME, Lortz R, Pomjakushina E, Conder K, Läuchli AM, Weber L, Wessel S, Honecker A, Normand B, Rüegg C, Corboz P, Rønnow HM, Mila F. A quantum magnetic analogue to the critical point of water. Nature 2021; 592:370-375. [PMID: 33854247 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03411-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 02/26/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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At the liquid-gas phase transition in water, the density has a discontinuity at atmospheric pressure; however, the line of these first-order transitions defined by increasing the applied pressure terminates at the critical point1, a concept ubiquitous in statistical thermodynamics2. In correlated quantum materials, it was predicted3 and then confirmed experimentally4,5 that a critical point terminates the line of Mott metal-insulator transitions, which are also first-order with a discontinuous charge carrier density. In quantum spin systems, continuous quantum phase transitions6 have been controlled by pressure7,8, applied magnetic field9,10 and disorder11, but discontinuous quantum phase transitions have received less attention. The geometrically frustrated quantum antiferromagnet SrCu2(BO3)2 constitutes a near-exact realization of the paradigmatic Shastry-Sutherland model12-14 and displays exotic phenomena including magnetization plateaus15, low-lying bound-state excitations16, anomalous thermodynamics17 and discontinuous quantum phase transitions18,19. Here we control both the pressure and the magnetic field applied to SrCu2(BO3)2 to provide evidence of critical-point physics in a pure spin system. We use high-precision specific-heat measurements to demonstrate that, as in water, the pressure-temperature phase diagram has a first-order transition line that separates phases with different local magnetic energy densities, and that terminates at an Ising critical point. We provide a quantitative explanation of our data using recently developed finite-temperature tensor-network methods17,20-22. These results further our understanding of first-order quantum phase transitions in quantum magnetism, with potential applications in materials where anisotropic spin interactions produce the topological properties23,24 that are useful for spintronic applications.
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- J Larrea Jiménez
- Laboratory for Quantum Matter under Extreme Conditions, Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.,Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong
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- Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Multiscale Materials Experiments, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Festkörperphysik, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modélisation, CNRS UMR 8089, CY Cergy Paris Université, Cergy-Pontoise, France
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- Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.,Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland
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- Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.,Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen-PSI, Switzerland.,Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, Switzerland.,Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.,Delta Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland.
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- Institute of Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
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Maxim F, Karalis K, Boillat P, Banuti DT, Marquez Damian JI, Niceno B, Ludwig C. Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Supercritical Water Pseudo-Boiling. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2021; 8:2002312. [PMID: 33552857 PMCID: PMC7856905 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202002312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2020] [Revised: 10/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Supercritical fluid pseudo-boiling (PB), recently brought to the attention of the scientific community, is the phenomenon occurring when fluid changes its structure from liquid-like (LL) to gas-like (GL) states across the Widom line. This work provides the first quantitative analysis on the thermodynamics and the dynamics of water's PB, since the understanding of this phase transition is mandatory for the successful implementation of technologies using supercritical water (scH2O) for environmental, energy, and nanomaterial applications. The study combines computational techniques with in situ neutron imaging measurements. The results demonstrate that, during isobaric heating close to the critical point, while water density drops by a factor of three in the PB transitional region, the system needs >16 times less energy to increase its temperature by 1 K than to change its structure from LL to GL phase. Above the PB-Widom line, the structure of LL water consists mainly of tetramers and trimers, while below the line mostly dimers and monomers form in the GL phase. At atomic level, the PB dynamics are similar to those of the subcritical water vaporization. This fundamental knowledge has great impact on water science, as it helps to establish the structure-properties relationship of scH2O.
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- Florentina Maxim
- Laboratory for Chemical Thermodynamics“Ilie Murgulescu” Institute of Physical ChemistrySplaiul Independentei 202Bucharest060021Romania
- Laboratory for Bioenergy and Catalysis (LBK)ENE DivisionPaul Scherrer InstituteVilligen PSI5232Switzerland
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- Electrochemistry Laboratory (LEC)ENE DivisionPaul Scherrer InstituteVilligen PSI5232Switzerland
- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging (LNS)NUM DivisionPaul Scherrer InstituteVilligen PSI5232Switzerland
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- Department of Mechanical EngineeringThe University of New MexicoMSC01 1150AlbuquerqueNM87131USA
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- Laboratory for Scientific Computing and Modelling (LSM)NES DivisionPaul Scherrer InstituteVilligen PSI5232Switzerland
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ)MAVT‐LKEZurich8092Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Bioenergy and Catalysis (LBK)ENE DivisionPaul Scherrer InstituteVilligen PSI5232Switzerland
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)ENAC IIE GR‐LUDLausanne1015Switzerland
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Banuti D, Raju M, Ihme M. Between supercritical liquids and gases – Reconciling dynamic and thermodynamic state transitions. J Supercrit Fluids 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2020.104895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Ha MY, Yoon TJ, Tlusty T, Jho Y, Lee WB. Universality, Scaling, and Collapse in Supercritical Fluids. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:451-455. [PMID: 31878784 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b03360] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Supercritical fluid (SCF) is known to exhibit salient dynamic and thermodynamic crossovers and an inhomogeneous molecular distribution. However, the question as to what basic physics underlies these microscopic and macroscopic anomalies remains open. Here, using an order parameter extracted by machine learning, the fraction of gas-like (or liquid-like) molecules, we find simplicity and universality in SCF: First, all isotherms of a given fluid collapse onto a single master curve described by a scaling relation. The observed power law holds from the high-temperature and -pressure regime down to the critical point where it diverges. Second, phase diagrams of different compounds collapse onto their master curves by the same scaling exponent, thereby demonstrating a putative law of corresponding supercritical states in simple fluids. The reported results support a model of the SCF as a mixture of two interchangeable microstates, whose spatiotemporal dynamics gives rise to unique macroscopic properties.
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- Min Young Ha
- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Processes , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Processes , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , Republic of Korea
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- Center for Soft and Living Matter , Institute for Basic Science (IBS) , Ulsan 44919 , Republic of Korea
- Department of Physics , Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) , Ulsan 44919 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Research Institute of Natural Science , Gyeongsang National University , Jinju 52828 , Republic of Korea
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- School of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Chemical Processes , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , Republic of Korea
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Gutiérrez Ortiz FJ, Kruse A. The use of process simulation in supercritical fluids applications. REACT CHEM ENG 2020. [DOI: 10.1039/c9re00465c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Modelling and simulation from micro- to macro-scale are needed to attain a broader commercialization of supercritical technologies.
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- Francisco Javier Gutiérrez Ortiz
- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering
- Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería
- University of Seville
- 41092 Sevilla
- Spain
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- Department of Conversion Technologies and of Biobased Products
- Institute of Agricultural Engineering
- University of Hohenheim
- 70599 Stuttgart
- Germany
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Karalis K, Ludwig C, Niceno B. Supercritical water anomalies in the vicinity of the Widom line. Sci Rep 2019; 9:15731. [PMID: 31673024 PMCID: PMC6823507 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-51843-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2019] [Accepted: 09/05/2019] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Supercritical water is used in a variety of chemical and industrial applications. As a consequence, a detailed knowledge of the structure-properties correlations is of uttermost importance. Although supercritical water was considered as a homogeneous fluid, recent studies revealed an anomalous behaviour due to nanoscale density fluctuations (inhomogeneity). The inhomogeneity is clearly demarked through the Widom line (maxima in response factions) and drastically affect the properties. In the current study the physical properties of supercritical water have been determined by classical molecular dynamics simulations using a variety of polarized and polarizable interatomic potentials. Their validity which was not available at supercritical conditions has been assessed based on the ability to reproduce experimental data. Overall, the polarized TIP4P/2005 model accurately predicted the properties of water in both liquid-like and gas-like regions. All interatomic potentials captured the anomalous behaviour providing a direct evidence of molecular-scale inhomogeneity.
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- Konstantinos Karalis
- Laboratory for Scientific Computing and Modelling (LSM), NES Division, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
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- Laboratory for Bioenergy and Catalysis (LBK), ENE Division, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), ENAC IIE GR-LUD, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Scientific Computing and Modelling (LSM), NES Division, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen PSI, Switzerland.
- Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), MAVT-LKE, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
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