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Calegari Andrade MF, Aluru NR, Pham TA. Nonlinear Effects of Hydrophobic Confinement on the Electronic Structure and Dielectric Response of Water. J Phys Chem Lett 2024; 15:6872-6879. [PMID: 38934582 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.4c01242] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/28/2024]
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Fundamental studies of the dielectrics of confined water are critical to understand the ion transport across biological and synthetic nanochannels. The relevance of these fundamental studies, however, surmounts the difficulty of probing water's dielectric constant as a function of a fine variation in confinement. In this work, we explore the computational efficiency of machine learning potentials to derive the confinement effects on the dielectric constant, polarization, and dipole moment of water. Our simulations predict an enhancement of the axial dielectric constant of water under extreme confinement, arising from either the formation of ferroelectric structures of ordered water or larger dipole fluctuations facilitated by the disruption of water's H-bond network. Our study highlights the impact of hydrophobic nanoconfinement on the dielectric constant and on the ionic and electronic structure of water molecules, pointing to the importance of geometric flexibility and electronic polarizability to properly model confinement effects on water.
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- Marcos F Calegari Andrade
- Quantum Simulations Group, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
- Laboratory for Energy Applications for the Future, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Quantum Simulations Group, Materials Science Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
- Laboratory for Energy Applications for the Future, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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Li Y, Shang X, Zhou YH, Zheng X. The effect of light-irradiated area on the spin dependent photocurrent in zigzag graphene nanoribbon junctions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2023; 25:24428-24435. [PMID: 37655683 DOI: 10.1039/d3cp01176c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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In this work, we study the photogalvanic effect of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon junction with a centro-symmetrical structure which consists of 8 zigzag chains by density functional calculations. Specifically, we focus on the cases where the irradiated region is just part of the central region and located at different positions, with an aim to see how the spin dependent photocurrents will change and whether pure spin current can be obtained. It is found that the magnitude of the spin-dependent photocurrents increases with a gradual increase of the irradiated region and pure spin current is achieved when and only when the entire central region is irradiated. In addition, we studied the additive effect in this device to see that if we divide the central region into two parts, whether the sum of the spin current generated by irradiating the two parts individually is equal to that produced when the entire central region is irradiated. It is found that the sum of the spin currents produced by irradiating the two parts individually is smaller than that obtained by irradiating the whole central region, which means that the rule of "1 + 2 = 3" does not hold and the coupling effect between the two parts is important in photocurrent generation.
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- Yuejun Li
- College of Science, East China Jiao Tong University, Nanchang 330013, China.
- College of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
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- College of Science, East China Jiao Tong University, Nanchang 330013, China.
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- College of Science, East China Jiao Tong University, Nanchang 330013, China.
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- College of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China.
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Acharya GR, Tyagi M, Mamontov E, Hoffmann PM. Diffusion Dynamics of Water and Ethanol in Graphene Oxide. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:7384-7393. [PMID: 37556231 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c08960] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/11/2023]
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We utilized the momentum transfer (Q)-dependence of quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) to measure the dynamics of water and ethanol confined in graphene oxide (GO) powder or membranes at different temperatures and in different orientations. We found reduced diffusivities (up to 30% in the case of water) and a depression of dynamic transition temperatures. While water showed near Arrhenius behavior with an almost bulk-like activation barrier in a temperature range of 280-310 K, the diffusivity of ethanol showed little temperature dependence. For both water and ethanol, we found evidence for immobile and mobile fractions of the confined liquid. The mobile fraction exhibited jump diffusion, with a jump length consistent with the expected average spacing of hydroxide groups in the GO surfaces. From anisotropy measurements, we found weak anisotropy in the diffusivity of the mobile species and in the fraction and geometry of immobile species.
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- Gobin Raj Acharya
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-6102, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008 MS6473, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan 48201, United States
- Department of Physical Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida 32114, United States
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Fardis M, Karagianni M, Gkoura L, Papavassiliou G. Self-Diffusion in Confined Water: A Comparison between the Dynamics of Supercooled Water in Hydrophobic Carbon Nanotubes and Hydrophilic Porous Silica. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232214432. [PMID: 36430907 PMCID: PMC9697084 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232214432] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2022] [Revised: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Confined liquids are model systems for the study of the metastable supercooled state, especially for bulk water, in which the onset of crystallization below 230 K hinders the application of experimental techniques. Nevertheless, in addition to suppressing crystallization, confinement at the nanoscale drastically alters the properties of water. Evidently, the behavior of confined water depends critically on the nature of the confining environment and the interactions of confined water molecules with the confining matrix. A comparative study of the dynamics of water under hydrophobic and hydrophilic confinement could therefore help to clarify the underlying interactions. As we demonstrate in this work using a few representative results from the relevant literature, the accurate assessment of the translational mobility of water molecules, especially in the supercooled state, can unmistakably distinguish between the hydrophilic and hydrophobic nature of the confining environments. Among the numerous experimental methods currently available, we selected nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in a field gradient, which directly measures the macroscopic translational self-diffusion coefficient, and quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS), which can determine the microscopic translational dynamics of the water molecules. Dielectric relaxation, which probes the re-orientational degrees of freedom, are also discussed.
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Moid M, Finkelstein Y, Moreh R, Maiti PK. Anisotropy of the Proton Kinetic Energy as a Tool for Capturing Structural Transition in Water Confined in a Graphene Nanoslit Pore. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:455-461. [PMID: 34995445 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The proton dynamics of a 2D water monolayer confined inside a graphene slit pore is studied in Cartesian and molecular frames of reference using molecular dynamics simulations. The vibrational density of states of the proton was calculated versus temperature and was further used to deduce the mean kinetic energy of the hydrogen atoms, Ke(H), in both frames of reference. The directional components of Ke(H) are in good agreement with experimental observations for bulk as well as nanoconfined water. Nonetheless, while in the molecular frame of reference the effect of temperature on the anisotropy ratios of Ke(H) (the ratio between its directional components) are practically invariant between the 2D and 3D cases, those in the Cartesian frame of reference reveal a rather notable reduction across 200 K, indicating the occurrence of an order-disorder transition. This result is further supported by the calculated entropy and enthalpy of the confined water molecules. Overall, it is shown that Ke(H) anisotropy ratios may serve as a valuable order parameter for detecting structural transformations in hydrogen bonds containing molecular systems.
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- Mohd Moid
- Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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- Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Centre for Condensed Matter Theory, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India
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Effect of Size and Temperature on Water Dynamics inside Carbon Nano-Tubes Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulation. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26206175. [PMID: 34684756 PMCID: PMC8540028 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26206175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2021] [Accepted: 10/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Water transport inside carbon nano-tubes (CNTs) has attracted considerable attention due to its nano-fluidic properties, its importance in nonporous systems, and the wide range of applications in membrane desalination and biological medicine. Recent studies show an enhancement of water diffusion inside nano-channels depending on the size of the nano-confinement. However, the underlying mechanism of this enhancement is not well understood yet. In this study, we performed Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations to study water flow inside CNT systems. The length of CNTs considered in this study is 20 nm, but their diameters vary from 1 to 10 nm. The simulations are conducted at temperatures ranging from 260 K to 320 K. We observe that water molecules are arranged into coaxial water tubular sheets. The number of these tubular sheets depends on the CNT size. Further analysis reveals that the diffusion of water molecules along the CNT axis deviates from the Arrhenius temperature dependence. The non-Arrhenius relationship results from a fragile liquid-like water component persisting at low temperatures with fragility higher than that of the bulk water.
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Mendonça BHS, Ternes P, Salcedo E, de Oliveira AB, Barbosa MC. Water diffusion in carbon nanotubes: Interplay between confinement, surface deformation, and temperature. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:244504. [PMID: 33380079 DOI: 10.1063/5.0031084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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In this article, we investigate, through molecular dynamics simulations, the diffusion behavior of the TIP4P/2005 water confined in pristine and deformed carbon nanotubes (armchair and zigzag). To analyze different diffusive mechanisms, the water temperature was varied as 210 ≤ T ≤ 380 K. The results of our simulations reveal that water presents a non-Arrhenius to Arrhenius diffusion crossover. The confinement shifts the diffusion transition to higher temperatures when compared with the bulk system. In addition, for narrower nanotubes, water diffuses in a single line, which leads to its mobility independent of the activation energy.
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- Bruno H S Mendonça
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 91501-970, Brazil
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- School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9NL, United Kingdom
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- Coordenadoria Especial de Física, Química e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Araranguá, SC 88905-120, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, MG 35400-000, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 91501-970, Brazil
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Cobeña-Reyes J, Sahimi M. Rheology of water in small nanotubes. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:023106. [PMID: 32942370 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.023106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2020] [Accepted: 07/20/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The properties of water in confinement are very different from those under bulk conditions. In some cases the melting point of ice may be shifted and one may find either ice, icelike water, or a state in which freezing is completely inhibited. Understanding the dynamics and rheology of water in confined media, such as small nanotubes, is of fundamental importance to the biological properties of micro-organisms at low temperatures, to the development of new devices for preserving DNA samples, and for other biological materials and fluids, lubrication, and development of nanostructured materials. We study rheology and dynamics of water in small nanotubes using extensive equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations. The results demonstrate that in strong confinement in nanotubes at temperatures significantly below and above bulk freezing temperature water behaves as a shear-thinning fluid at shear rates smaller than the inverse of the relaxation time in the confined medium. In addition, our results indicate the presence of regions in which the local density of water varies significantly over the same range of temperature in the nanotube. These findings may also have important implications for the design of nanofluidic systems.
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- Jose Cobeña-Reyes
- Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-1211, USA
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- Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-1211, USA
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Foglia F, Clancy AJ, Berry-Gair J, Lisowska K, Wilding MC, Suter TM, Miller TS, Smith K, Demmel F, Appel M, Sakai VG, Sella A, Howard CA, Tyagi M, Corà F, McMillan PF. Aquaporin-like water transport in nanoporous crystalline layered carbon nitride. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:eabb6011. [PMID: 32978165 PMCID: PMC7518864 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb6011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2020] [Accepted: 08/13/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Designing next-generation fuel cell and filtration devices requires the development of nanoporous materials that allow rapid and reversible uptake and directed transport of water molecules. Here, we combine neutron spectroscopy and first-principles calculations to demonstrate rapid transport of molecular H2O through nanometer-sized voids ordered within the layers of crystalline carbon nitride with a polytriazine imide structure. The transport mechanism involves a sequence of molecular orientation reversals directed by hydrogen-bonding interactions as the neutral molecules traverse the interlayer gap and pass through the intralayer voids that show similarities with the transport of water through transmembrane aquaporin channels in biological systems. The results suggest that nanoporous layered carbon nitrides can be useful for developing high-performance membranes.
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- Fabrizia Foglia
- Department of Chemistry, Christopher Ingold Laboratory, University College London, 20 Gordon St., London WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Christopher Ingold Laboratory, University College London, 20 Gordon St., London WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Christopher Ingold Laboratory, University College London, 20 Gordon St., London WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Christopher Ingold Laboratory, University College London, 20 Gordon St., London WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- University of Manchester at Harwell, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK
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- Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK
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- Electrochemical Innovation Lab, Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, Torrington Place, London WC1E 7JE, UK
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton OX11 0QX, UK
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- Institut Laue Langevin, 71 avenue des Martyrs, CS 20156, 38042 Grenoble CEDEX 9, France
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Chilton OX11 0QX, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Christopher Ingold Laboratory, University College London, 20 Gordon St., London WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Christopher Ingold Laboratory, University College London, 20 Gordon St., London WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Christopher Ingold Laboratory, University College London, 20 Gordon St., London WC1H 0AJ, UK.
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M R, Ayappa KG. Dynamical Transitions of Supercooled Water in Graphene Oxide Nanopores: Influence of Surface Hydrophilicity. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:4805-4820. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c02052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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- Rajasekaran M
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 560012
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 560012
- Centre for BioSystems Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India 560012
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Gkoura L, Diamantopoulos G, Fardis M, Homouz D, Alhassan S, Beazi-Katsioti M, Karagianni M, Anastasiou A, Romanos G, Hassan J, Papavassiliou G. The peculiar size and temperature dependence of water diffusion in carbon nanotubes studied with 2D NMR diffusion-relaxation D - T 2eff spectroscopy. BIOMICROFLUIDICS 2020; 14:034114. [PMID: 32595817 PMCID: PMC7305942 DOI: 10.1063/5.0005398] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/24/2020] [Accepted: 05/28/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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It is well known that water inside hydrophobic nano-channels diffuses faster than bulk water. Recent theoretical studies have shown that this enhancement depends on the size of the hydrophobic nanochannels. However, experimental evidence of this dependence is lacking. Here, by combining two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance diffusion-relaxation ( D - T 2 e f f ) spectroscopy in the stray field of a superconducting magnet and molecular dynamics simulations, we analyze the size dependence of water dynamics inside Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) of different diameters ( 1.1 - 6.0 nm), in the temperature range of 265 - 305 K. Depending on the CNT diameter, the nanotube water is shown to resolve in two or more tubular components acquiring different self-diffusion coefficients. Most notably, a favorable CNT diameter range ( 3.0 - 4.5 nm) is experimentally verified for the first time, in which water molecule dynamics at the center of the CNTs exhibits distinctly non-Arrhenius behavior, characterized by ultrafast diffusion and extraordinary fragility, a result of significant importance in the efforts to understand water behavior in hydrophobic nanochannels.
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- L. Gkoura
- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, 127788 Abu Dhabi, UAE
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- School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 15780 Zografou, Athens, Greece
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece
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- Department of Physics, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, 127788 Abu Dhabi, UAE
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- Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Attiki, Greece
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Monroe J, Barry M, DeStefano A, Aydogan Gokturk P, Jiao S, Robinson-Brown D, Webber T, Crumlin EJ, Han S, Shell MS. Water Structure and Properties at Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Surfaces. Annu Rev Chem Biomol Eng 2020; 11:523-557. [PMID: 32169001 DOI: 10.1146/annurev-chembioeng-120919-114657] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The properties of water on both molecular and macroscopic surfaces critically influence a wide range of physical behaviors, with applications spanning from membrane science to catalysis to protein engineering. Yet, our current understanding of water interfacing molecular and material surfaces is incomplete, in part because measurement of water structure and molecular-scale properties challenges even the most advanced experimental characterization techniques and computational approaches. This review highlights progress in the ongoing development of tools working to answer fundamental questions on the principles that govern the interactions between water and surfaces. One outstanding and critical question is what universal molecular signatures capture the hydrophobicity of different surfaces in an operationally meaningful way, since traditional macroscopic hydrophobicity measures like contact angles fail to capture even basic properties of molecular or extended surfaces with any heterogeneity at the nanometer length scale. Resolving this grand challenge will require close interactions between state-of-the-art experiments, simulations, and theory, spanning research groups and using agreed-upon model systems, to synthesize an integrated knowledge of solvation water structure, dynamics, and thermodynamics.
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- Jacob Monroe
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA;
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- Department of Materials, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA;
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA;
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA;
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA;
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.,Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA; .,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA;
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Mendonça BHS, Ternes P, Salcedo E, de Oliveira AB, Barbosa MC. Water diffusion in rough carbon nanotubes. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:024708. [PMID: 31941313 DOI: 10.1063/1.5129394] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the diffusion of water inside deformed carbon nanotubes with different degrees of deformation at 300 K. We found that the number of hydrogen bonds that water forms depends on nanotube topology, leading to enhancement or suppression of water diffusion. The simulation results reveal that more realistic nanotubes should be considered to understand the confined water diffusion behavior, at least for the narrowest nanotubes, when the interaction between water molecules and carbon atoms is relevant.
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- Bruno H S Mendonça
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 91501-970, Brazil
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- Campus São Bento do Sul, Instituto Federal Catarinense, São Bento do Sul, SC 89283-064, Brazil
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- Coordenadoria Especial de Física, Química e Matemática, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Araranguá, SC 88905-120, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Ouro Preto, MG, 35400-000, Brazil
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS 91501-970, Brazil
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M R, Ayappa KG. Influence of surface hydrophilicity and hydration on the rotational relaxation of supercooled water on graphene oxide surfaces. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:16080-16095. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp01515f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The presence of a bulk water film influences the dynamical transitions of supercooled water on graphene oxide surfaces.
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- Rajasekaran M
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Science
- Bangalore
- India
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- Indian Institute of Science
- Bangalore
- India
- Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering
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Ito K, Faraone A, Tyagi M, Yamaguchi T, Chen SH. Nanoscale dynamics of water confined in ordered mesoporous carbon. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:8517-8528. [PMID: 30957810 PMCID: PMC11282953 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp07704e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/29/2024]
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The single particle dynamics of water confined within two ordered mesoporous carbon matrices was investigated in the temperature range from 290 K to 170 K by quasielastic neutron scattering using three high resolution neutron spectrometers. Thus, it was possible to investigate the mobility of water confined in model hydrophobic cavities at the nanoscale. Models developed for the nanoscale dynamics of supercooled water and water confined within hydrophilic matrices were able to describe the collected data but remarkable differences with analogous silica confined matrices were observed in these carbon samples. A significant fraction of the water molecules was immobile on the nanosecond timescale, even at room temperature. As the temperature was lowered, the mobility of the water molecules slowed down, but the strongly non-Arrhenius behavior observed in bulk water and for fully hydrated hydrophilic confinement was absent, which indicates frustration of the hydrogen bond network formation. The obtained results were relevant for applications of mesoporous carbon materials.
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- Kanae Ito
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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Wiener CG, Qiang Z, Xia Y, Tyagi M, Vogt BD. Impact of surface wettability on dynamics of supercooled water confined in nitrogen-doped ordered mesoporous carbon. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:28019-28025. [PMID: 30383049 DOI: 10.1039/c8cp05670f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Confinement of water to nanoscale dimensions enables substantial supercooling through disruption of the hydrogen bonding network. However, there remain questions associated with the importance of the nature of the water-surface interactions relative to physical confinement defined by the pore geometry on the dynamics of supercooled water. Here, a simple route to tune the surface wetting properties through nitrogen doping of carbon is reported. This method leads to nearly indistinguishable mesopore sizes to enable separation of surface wettability and pore size effects. Quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) is used to probe the proton dynamics of water confined within the mesopores with an average diameter of 4.85 ± 0.05 nm as a function of temperature from 267 K to 189 K. The motions of water in the mesopores follow jump-diffusion. For the temperatures examined, the diffusivity of water in the mesopores decreases with increasing nitrogen doping of the carbon framework. The activation energy associated with proton dynamics increases by approximately 30% with N-doping when compared to the undoped carbon surface, which is attributed to the enhanced surface wettability (favorable interactions between water and pore surface). This acts to provide an energy barrier for the water motions. This work suggests that the influence of surface chemistry on the dynamics of supercooled water confined in mesopores is less than the influence of nanopore size.
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- Clinton G Wiener
- Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA.
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Shudo Y, Izumi A, Hagita K, Yamada T, Shibata K, Shibayama M. Diffusion Behavior of Methanol Molecules Confined in Cross-Linked Phenolic Resins Studied Using Neutron Scattering and Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00535] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Yasuyuki Shudo
- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
- Corporate Engineering Center, Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd., 2100, Takayanagi, Fujieda, Shizuoka 426-0041, Japan
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- Corporate Engineering Center, Sumitomo Bakelite Co., Ltd., 2100, Takayanagi, Fujieda, Shizuoka 426-0041, Japan
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- Department of Applied Physics, National Defense Academy, 1-10-20, Hashirimizu, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 239-8686, Japan
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- Neutron Science and Technology Center, Comprehensive Research Organization for Science and Society, 162-1 Shirakata, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki 319-1106, Japan
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- Materials and Life Science Division, J-PARC Center, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, 2-4 Shirakata, Tokai, Naka, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Neutron Science Laboratory, Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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Tan P, Liang Y, Xu Q, Mamontov E, Li J, Xing X, Hong L. Gradual Crossover from Subdiffusion to Normal Diffusion: A Many-Body Effect in Protein Surface Water. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2018; 120:248101. [PMID: 29956983 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.120.248101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2017] [Revised: 03/12/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Dynamics of hydration water is essential for the function of biomacromolecules. Previous studies have demonstrated that water molecules exhibit subdiffusion on the surface of biomacromolecules; yet the microscopic mechanism remains vague. Here, by performing neutron scattering, molecular dynamics simulations, and analytic modeling on hydrated perdeuterated protein powders, we found water molecules jump randomly between trapping sites on protein surfaces, whose waiting times obey a broad distribution, resulting in subdiffusion. Moreover, the subdiffusive exponent gradually increases with observation time towards normal diffusion due to a many-body volume-exclusion effect.
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- Pan Tan
- School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Microbial Metabolism and School of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- Spallation Neutron Source, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- School of Mathematical Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing 210093, China
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- School of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
- Institute of Natural Sciences, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
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The behavior of water confined at the nanoscale plays a fundamental role in biological processes and technological applications, including protein folding, translocation of water across membranes, and filtration and desalination. Remarkably, nanoscale confinement drastically alters the properties of water. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we determine the phase diagram of water confined by graphene sheets in slab geometry, at T = 300 K and for a wide range of pressures. We find that, depending on the confining dimension D and density σ, water can exist in liquid and vapor phases, or crystallize into monolayer and bilayer square ices, as observed in experiments. Interestingly, depending on D and σ, the crystal-liquid transformation can be a first-order phase transition, or smooth, reminiscent of a supercritical liquid-gas transformation. We also focus on the limit of stability of the liquid relative to the vapor and obtain the cavitation pressure perpendicular to the graphene sheets. Perpendicular cavitation pressure varies non-monotonically with increasing D and exhibits a maximum at D ≈ 0.90 nm (equivalent to three water layers). The effect of nanoconfinement on the cavitation pressure can have an impact on water transport in technological and biological systems. Our study emphasizes the rich and apparently unpredictable behavior of nanoconfined water, which is complex even for graphene.
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Finkelstein Y, Moreh R, Shang SL, Wang Y, Liu ZK. Quantum behavior of water nano-confined in beryl. J Chem Phys 2017; 146:124307. [PMID: 28388143 DOI: 10.1063/1.4978397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The proton mean kinetic energy, Ke(H), of water confined in nanocavities of beryl (Be3Al2Si6O18) at 5 K was obtained by simulating the partial vibrational density of states from density functional theory based first-principles calculations. The result, Ke(H) = 104.4 meV, is in remarkable agreement with the 5 K deep inelastic neutron scattering (DINS) measured value of 105 meV. This is in fact the first successful calculation that reproduces an anomalous DINS value regarding Ke(H) in nano-confined water. The calculation indicates that the vibrational states of the proton of the nano-confined water molecule distribute much differently than in ordinary H2O phases, most probably due to coupling with lattice modes of the hosting beryl nano-cage. These findings may be viewed as a promising step towards the resolution of the DINS controversial measurements on other H2O nano-confining systems, e.g., H2O confined in single and double walled carbon nanotubes.
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- Y Finkelstein
- Nuclear Research Center-Negev, Beer-Sheva 84190, Israel
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- Physics Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Briganti G, Rogati G, Parmentier A, Maccarini M, De Luca F. Neutron scattering observation of quasi-free rotations of water confined in carbon nanotubes. Sci Rep 2017; 7:45021. [PMID: 28327621 PMCID: PMC5361194 DOI: 10.1038/srep45021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2016] [Accepted: 02/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/16/2022] Open
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The translational and orientational dynamics of water in carbon nanotubes has been studied by quasi-elastic neutron scattering from 300 down to 10 K. Results show that, reducing temperature below 200 K, part of this water behaves as a quasi-free rotor, that is, the orientational energy of such molecules becomes comparable to the rotational energy of water in the gas phase. This novel and unique dynamic behavior is related to the appearance of water molecules characterized by a coordination number of about two, which is promoted by sub-nanometer axial confinement. This peculiar molecular arrangement allows water to show an active rotational dynamics even at temperatures as low as 10 K. The translational mobility shows a behavior compatible with the rotational one.
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- G. Briganti
- Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Dept. of Physics, Rome, 00185, Italy
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- Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Dept. of Physics, Rome, 00185, Italy
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- Tor Vergata Univ. of Rome and NAST Center, Dept. of Physics, Rome, 00133, Italy
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- Grenoble Alpes Univ., Lab. TIMC/IMAG UMR CNRS 5525, La Tronche, 38700, France
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- Sapienza Univ. of Rome, Dept. of Physics, Rome, 00185, Italy
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Reiter GF, Deb A, Sakurai Y, Itou M, Kolesnikov AI. Quantum Coherence and Temperature Dependence of the Anomalous State of Nanoconfined Water in Carbon Nanotubes. J Phys Chem Lett 2016; 7:4433-4437. [PMID: 27749075 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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X-ray Compton scattering measurements of the electron momentum distribution in water confined in both single-walled and double-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT and DWNT), as a function of temperature and confinement size are presented here together with earlier measurements of the proton momentum distribution in the same systems using neutron Compton scattering. These studies provide a coherent picture of an anomalous state of water that exists because of nanoconfinement. This state cannot be described by the weakly interacting molecule picture. It has unique transport properties for both protons and water molecules. We suggest that knowledge of the excitation spectrum of this state is needed to understand the enhanced flow of water in cylinders with diameters on the order of 20 Å.
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- George F Reiter
- Physics Department, University of Houston , Houston, Texas 77204, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, United States
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI)/SPring-8 , Sayo-cho, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI)/SPring-8 , Sayo-cho, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- Chemical and Engineering Materials Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Vo TQ, Kim B. Transport Phenomena of Water in Molecular Fluidic Channels. Sci Rep 2016; 6:33881. [PMID: 27650138 PMCID: PMC5030652 DOI: 10.1038/srep33881] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2016] [Accepted: 09/05/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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In molecular-level fluidic transport, where the discrete characteristics of a molecular system are not negligible (in contrast to a continuum description), the response of the molecular water system might still be similar to the continuum description if the time and ensemble averages satisfy the ergodic hypothesis and the scale of the average is enough to recover the classical thermodynamic properties. However, even in such cases, the continuum description breaks down on the material interfaces. In short, molecular-level liquid flows exhibit substantially different physics from classical fluid transport theories because of (i) the interface/surface force field, (ii) thermal/velocity slip, (iii) the discreteness of fluid molecules at the interface and (iv) local viscosity. Therefore, in this study, we present the result of our investigations using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with continuum-based energy equations and check the validity and limitations of the continuum hypothesis. Our study shows that when the continuum description is subjected to the proper treatment of the interface effects via modified boundary conditions, the so-called continuum-based modified-analytical solutions, they can adequately predict nanoscale fluid transport phenomena. The findings in this work have broad effects in overcoming current limitations in modeling/predicting the fluid behaviors of molecular fluidic devices.
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- Truong Quoc Vo
- School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Daehak-ro 93, Namgu, Ulsan 680-749, South Korea
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Daehak-ro 93, Namgu, Ulsan 680-749, South Korea
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Jahn DA, Wong J, Bachler J, Loerting T, Giovambattista N. Glass polymorphism in glycerol-water mixtures: I. A computer simulation study. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:11042-57. [PMID: 27063705 PMCID: PMC4847106 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp00075d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2016] [Accepted: 03/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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We perform out-of-equilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of water-glycerol mixtures in the glass state. Specifically, we study the transformations between low-density (LDA) and high-density amorphous (HDA) forms of these mixtures induced by compression/decompression at constant temperature. Our MD simulations reproduce qualitatively the density changes observed in experiments. Specifically, the LDA-HDA transformation becomes (i) smoother and (ii) the hysteresis in a compression/decompression cycle decreases as T and/or glycerol content increase. This is surprising given the fast compression/decompression rates (relative to experiments) accessible in MD simulations. We study mixtures with glycerol molar concentration χ(g) = 0-13% and find that, for the present mixture models and rates, the LDA-HDA transformation is detectable up to χ(g) ≈ 5%. As the concentration increases, the density of the starting glass (i.e., LDA at approximately χ(g) ≤ 5%) rapidly increases while, instead, the density of HDA remains practically constant. Accordingly, the LDA state and hence glass polymorphism become inaccessible for glassy mixtures with approximately χ(g) > 5%. We present an analysis of the molecular-level changes underlying the LDA-HDA transformation. As observed in pure glassy water, during the LDA-to-HDA transformation, water molecules within the mixture approach each other, moving from the second to the first hydration shell and filling the first interstitial shell of water molecules. Interestingly, similar changes also occur around glycerol OH groups. It follows that glycerol OH groups contribute to the density increase during the LDA-HDA transformation. An analysis of the hydrogen bond (HB)-network of the mixtures shows that the LDA-HDA transformation is accompanied by minor changes in the number of HBs of water and glycerol. Instead, large changes in glycerol and water coordination numbers occur. We also perform a detailed analysis of the effects that the glycerol force field (FF) has on our results. By comparing MD simulations using two different glycerol models, we find that glycerol conformations indeed depend on the FF employed. Yet, the thermodynamic and microscopic mechanisms accompanying the LDA-HDA transformation and hence, our main results, do not. This work is accompanied by an experimental report where we study the glass polymorphism in glycerol-water mixtures prepared by isobaric cooling at 1 bar.
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- David A Jahn
- Department of Physics, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA.
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- Department of Physics, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA.
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Physics, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA. and PhD Programs in Chemistry and Physics, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY 10016, USA
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Bellissent-Funel MC, Kaneko K, Ohba T, Appavou MS, Soininen AJ, Wuttke J. Crossover from localized to diffusive water dynamics in carbon nanohorns: A comprehensive quasielastic neutron-scattering analysis. Phys Rev E 2016; 93:022104. [PMID: 26986285 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.93.022104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2015] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Incoherent neutron scattering by water confined in carbon nanohorns was measured with the backscattering spectrometer SPHERES and analyzed in exemplary breadth and depth. Quasielastic spectra admit δ-plus-Kohlrausch fits over a wide q and T range. From the q and T dependence of fitted amplitudes and relaxation times, however, it becomes clear that the fits do not represent a uniform physical process, but that there is a crossover from localized motion at low T to diffusive α relaxation at high T. The crossover temperature of about 210 to 230 K increases with decreasing wave number, which is incompatible with a thermodynamic strong-fragile transition. Extrapolated diffusion coefficients D(T) indicate that water motion is at room temperature about 2.5 times slower than in the bulk; in the supercooled state this factor becomes smaller. At even higher temperatures, where the α spectrum is essentially flat, a few percentages of the total scattering go into a Lorentzian with a width of about 1.6μeV, probably due to functional groups on the surface of the nanohorns.
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- Center for Energy and Environmental Science, Shinshu University, 1-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano, Japan
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- Graduate School of Science, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi, Inage, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, JCNS at MLZ, Lichtenbergstraße 1, 85747 Garching, Germany
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, JCNS at MLZ, Lichtenbergstraße 1, 85747 Garching, Germany
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- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, JCNS at MLZ, Lichtenbergstraße 1, 85747 Garching, Germany
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Characteristic features of water dynamics in restricted geometries investigated with quasi-elastic neutron scattering. Chem Phys 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2015.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Pei J, Zhang X, Huang L, Jiang H, Hu X. Fabrication of reduced graphene oxide membranes for highly efficient water desalination. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra22711b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The resultant PDA–RGO membranes allow faster permeation of water compared with GO membranes, but a higher retention rate of solutes.
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- Junxian Pei
- MOE Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Machinery Transients
- School of Power and Mechanical Engineering
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
- China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Machinery Transients
- School of Power and Mechanical Engineering
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
- China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Machinery Transients
- School of Power and Mechanical Engineering
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
- China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Machinery Transients
- School of Power and Mechanical Engineering
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
- China
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- MOE Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Machinery Transients
- School of Power and Mechanical Engineering
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
- China
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Sun G, Giovambattista N, Xu L. Confinement effects on the liquid-liquid phase transition and anomalous properties of a monatomic water-like liquid. J Chem Phys 2015; 143:244503. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4937486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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- Gang Sun
- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Department of Physics, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York 11210, USA
- Ph.D. Programs in Chemistry and Physics, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, New York 10016, USA
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- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing, China
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Sergeyev IV, Bahri S, Day LA, McDermott AE. Pf1 bacteriophage hydration by magic angle spinning solid-state NMR. J Chem Phys 2015; 141:22D533. [PMID: 25494804 DOI: 10.1063/1.4903230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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High resolution two- and three-dimensional heteronuclear correlation spectroscopy ((1)H-(13)C, (1)H-(15)N, and (1)H-(13)C-(13)C HETCOR) has provided a detailed characterization of the internal and external hydration water of the Pf1 virion. This long and slender virion (2000 nm × 7 nm) contains highly stretched DNA within a capsid of small protein subunits, each only 46 amino acid residues. HETCOR cross-peaks have been unambiguously assigned to 25 amino acids, including most external residues 1-21 as well as residues 39-40 and 43-46 deep inside the virion. In addition, the deoxyribose rings of the DNA near the virion axis are in contact with water. The sets of cross-peaks to the DNA and to all 25 amino acid residues were from the same hydration water (1)H resonance; some of the assigned residues do not have exchangeable side-chain protons. A mapping of the contacts onto structural models indicates the presence of water "tunnels" through a highly hydrophobic region of the capsid. The present results significantly extend and modify results from a lower resolution study, and yield a comprehensive hydration surface map of Pf1. In addition, the internal water could be distinguished from external hydration water by means of paramagnetic relaxation enhancement. The internal water population may serve as a conveniently localized magnetization reservoir for structural studies.
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- Ivan V Sergeyev
- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, New York 10027, USA
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- Public Health Research Institute, Rutgers University, 225 Warren St., Newark, New Jersey 07103, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, New York 10027, USA
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Diallo SO. Pore-size dependence and characteristics of water diffusion in slitlike micropores. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 92:012312. [PMID: 26274167 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.92.012312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2015] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The temperature dependence of the dynamics of water inside microporous activated carbon fibers (ACF) is investigated by means of incoherent elastic and quasielastic neutron-scattering techniques. The aim is to evaluate the effect of increasing pore size on the water dynamics in these primarily hydrophobic slit-shaped channels. Using two different micropore sizes (∼12 and 18 Å, denoted, respectively, ACF-10 and ACF-20), a clear suppression of the mobility of the water molecules is observed as the pore gap or temperature decreases. This suppression is accompanied by a systematic dependence of the average translational diffusion coefficient D(r) and relaxation time 〈τ(0)〉 of the restricted water on pore size and temperature. The observed D(r) values are tested against a proposed scaling law, in which the translational diffusion coefficient D(r) of water within a porous matrix was found to depend solely on two single parameters, a temperature-independent translational diffusion coefficient D(c) associated with the water bound to the pore walls and the ratio θ of this strictly confined water to the total water inside the pore, yielding unique characteristic parameters for water transport in these carbon channels across the investigated temperature range.
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- S O Diallo
- Chemical and Engineering Materials Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Diallo SO, Vlcek L, Mamontov E, Keum JK, Chen J, Hayes JS, Chialvo AA. Translational diffusion of water inside hydrophobic carbon micropores studied by neutron spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulation. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2015; 91:022124. [PMID: 25768475 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.91.022124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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When water molecules are confined to nanoscale spacings, such as in the nanometer-size pores of activated carbon fiber (ACF), their freezing point gets suppressed down to very low temperatures (∼150K), leading to a metastable liquid state with remarkable physical properties. We have investigated the ambient pressure diffusive dynamics of water in microporous Kynol ACF-10 (average pore size ∼11.6Å, with primarily slit-like pores) from temperature T=280 K in its stable liquid state down to T=230 K into the metastable supercooled phase. The observed characteristic relaxation times and diffusion coefficients are found to be, respectively, higher and lower than those in bulk water, indicating a slowing down of the water mobility with decreasing temperature. The observed temperature-dependent average relaxation time 〈τ〉 when compared to previous findings indicate that it is the width of the slit pores-not their curvature-that primarily affects the dynamics of water for pore sizes larger than 10 Å. The experimental observations are compared to complementary molecular dynamics simulations of a model system, in which we studied the diffusion of water within the 11.6 Å gap of two parallel graphene sheets. We find generally a reasonable agreement between the observed and calculated relaxation times at the low momentum transfer Q(Q≤0.9Å(-1)). At high Q, however, where localized dynamics becomes relevant, this ideal system does not satisfactorily reproduce the measurements. Consequently, the simulations are compared to the experiments at low Q, where the two can be best reconciled. The best agreement is obtained for the diffusion parameter D associated with the hydrogen-site when a representative stretched exponential function, rather than the standard bimodal exponential model, is used to parametrize the self-correlation function I(Q,t).
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- S O Diallo
- Quantum Condensed Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, National Laboratory, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Chemical and Engineering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Instrument and Source Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- American Technical Trading, Incorporated, P.O. Box 273, Pleasantville, New York 10570, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge, National Laboratory, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Anastassiou A, Karahaliou EK, Alexiadis O, Mavrantzas VG. Detailed atomistic simulation of the nano-sorption and nano-diffusivity of water, tyrosol, vanillic acid, and p-coumaric acid in single wall carbon nanotubes. J Chem Phys 2014; 139:164711. [PMID: 24182068 DOI: 10.1063/1.4825397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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We report results from a detailed computer simulation study for the nano-sorption and mobility of four different small molecules (water, tyrosol, vanillic acid, and p-coumaric acid) inside smooth single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). Most of the results have been obtained with the molecular dynamics (MD) method, but especially for the most narrow of the CNTs considered, the results for one of the molecules addressed here (water) were further confirmed through an additional Grand Canonical (μVT) Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulation using a value for the water chemical potential μ pre-computed with the particle deletion method. Issues addressed include molecular packing and ordering inside the nanotube for the four molecules, average number of sorbed molecules per unit length of the tube, and mean residence time and effective axial diffusivities, all as a function of tube diameter and tube length. In all cases, a strong dependence of the results on tube diameter was observed, especially in the way the different molecules are packed and organized inside the CNT. For water for which predictions of properties such as local structure and packing were computed with both methods (MD and GCMC), the two sets of results were found to be fully self-consistent for all types of SWCNTs considered. Water diffusivity inside the CNT (although, strongly dependent on the CNT diameter) was computed with two different methods, both of which gave identical results. For large enough CNT diameters (larger than about 13 Å), this was found to be higher than the corresponding experimental value in the bulk by about 55%. Surprisingly enough, for the rest of the molecules simulated (phenolic), the simulations revealed no signs of mobility inside nanotubes with a diameter smaller than the (20, 20) tube. This is attributed to strong phenyl-phenyl attractive interactions, also to favorable interactions of these molecules with the CNT walls, which cause them to form highly ordered, very stable structures inside the nanotube, especially under strong confinement. The interaction, in particular, of the methyl group (present in tyrosol, vanillic acid, and p-coumaric acid) with the CNT walls seems to play a key role in all these compounds causing them to remain practically immobile inside nanotubes characterized by diameters smaller than about 26 Å. It is only for larger-diameter CNTs that tyrosol, vanillic acid, and p-coumaric acid were observed to demonstrate appreciable mobility.
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Monasterio M, Jansson H, Gaitero JJ, Dolado JS, Cerveny S. Cause of the fragile-to-strong transition observed in water confined in C-S-H gel. J Chem Phys 2014; 139:164714. [PMID: 24182071 DOI: 10.1063/1.4826638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In this study, the rotational dynamics of hydration water confined in calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H) gel with a water content of 22 wt.% was studied by broadband dielectric spectroscopy in broad temperature (110-300 K) and frequency (10(-1)-10(8) Hz) ranges. The C-S-H gel was used as a 3D confining system for investigating the possible existence of a fragile-to-strong transition for water around 220 K. Such transition was observed at 220 K in a previous study [Y. Zhang, M. Lagi, F. Ridi, E. Fratini, P. Baglioni, E. Mamontov and S. H. Chen, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20, 502101 (2008)] on a similar system, and it was there associated with a hidden critical point of bulk water. However, based on the experimental results presented here, there is no sign of a fragile-to-strong transition for water confined in C-S-H gel. Instead, the fragile-to-strong transition can be explained by a merging of two different relaxation processes at about 220 K.
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- Manuel Monasterio
- Centro de Fisica de Materiales (CSIC, UPV∕EHU)-Materials Physics Center (MPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 San Sebastián, Spain
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Ito K, Yoshida K, Bellissent-Funel MC, Yamaguchi T. Dynamic Properties of Water Confined in Sephadex G15 Gel by Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering and Neutron Spin Echo Measurements. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 2014. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.20130328] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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- Kanae Ito
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University
- Advanced Materials Institute, Fukuoka University
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Paul S, Abi TG, Taraphder S. Structure and dynamics of water inside endohedrally functionalized carbon nanotubes. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:184511. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4873695] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Diallo SO, Jażdżewska M, Palmer JC, Mamontov E, Gubbins KE, Śliwińska-Bartkowiak M. Dynamics of nanoconfined water under pressure. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2013; 88:022316. [PMID: 24032841 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.88.022316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2013] [Revised: 05/22/2013] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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We report a study of the effects of pressure on the diffusivity of water molecules confined in single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNT) with average mean pore diameter of ~16 Å. The measurements were carried out using high-resolution neutron scattering, over the temperature range 220≤T≤260 K, and at two pressure conditions: ambient and elevated pressure. The high pressure data were collected at constant volume on cooling, with P varying from ~1.92 kbar at temperature T=260 K to ~1.85 kbar at T=220 K. Analysis of the observed dynamic structure factor S(Q,E) reveals the presence of two relaxation processes, a faster diffusion component (FC) associated with the motion of "caged" or restricted molecules, and a slower component arising from the free water molecules diffusing within the SWNT matrix. While the temperature dependence of the slow relaxation time exhibits a Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann law and is non-Arrhenius in nature, the faster component follows an Arrhenius exponential law at both pressure conditions. The application of pressure remarkably slows down the overall molecular dynamics, in agreement with previous observations, but most notably affects the slow relaxation. The faster relaxation shows marginal or no change with pressure within the experimental conditions.
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- Quantum Condensed Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Mamontov E, Ohl M. Slow dynamics of water molecules in an aqueous solution of lithium chloride probed by neutron spin-echo. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:10732-9. [PMID: 23689686 DOI: 10.1039/c3cp51355f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Aqueous solutions of lithium chloride are uniquely similar to pure water in the parameters such as glass transition temperature, Tg, yet they could be supercooled without freezing down to below 200 K even in the bulk state. This provides advantageous opportunity to study low-temperature dynamics of water molecules in water-like environment in the bulk rather than nano-confined state. Using high-resolution neutron spin-echo data, we argue that the critical temperature, Tc, which is also common between lithium chloride aqueous solutions and pure water, is associated with the split of a secondary relaxation from the main structural relaxation on cooling down. Our results do not allow distinguishing between a well-defined separate secondary relaxation process and the "excess wing" scenario, in which the temperature dependence of the secondary relaxation follows the main relaxation. Importantly, however, in either of these scenarios the secondary relaxation is associated with density-density fluctuations, measurable in a neutron scattering experiment. Neutron scattering could be the only experimental technique with the capability of providing information on the spatial characteristics of the secondary relaxation through the dependence of the signal on the scattering momentum transfer. We propose a simple method for such analysis.
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- E Mamontov
- Neutron Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831-6473, USA.
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Bertrand CE, Zhang Y, Chen SH. Deeply-cooled water under strong confinement: neutron scattering investigations and the liquid–liquid critical point hypothesis. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp43235h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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ITO K, YOSHIDA K, UJIMOTO K, YAMAGUCHI T. Thermal Behavior and Structure of Low-temperature Water Confined in Sephadex G15 Gel by Differential Scanning Calorimetry and X-ray Diffraction Method. ANAL SCI 2013; 29:353-9. [DOI: 10.2116/analsci.29.353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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- Kanae ITO
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Fukuoka University
- Advanced Materials Institute, Fukuoka University
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Cametti C, De Luca F, Parmentier A. Radiowave dielectric investigation of water confined in channels of carbon nanotubes. J Chem Phys 2012; 137:094908. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4749571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Javadian S, Taghavi F, Yari F, Hashemianzadeh SM. Phase transition study of confined water molecules inside carbon nanotubes: Hierarchical multiscale method from molecular dynamics simulation to ab initio calculation. J Mol Graph Model 2012; 38:40-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2012.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2012] [Revised: 05/03/2012] [Accepted: 05/05/2012] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Suffritti GB, Demontis P, Gulín-González J, Masia M. Computer simulations of dynamic crossover phenomena in nanoconfined water. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2012; 24:064110. [PMID: 22277640 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/6/064110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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In order to study dynamic crossover phenomena in nanoconfined water we performed a series of molecular dynamics (MD) computer simulations of water clusters adsorbed in zeolites, which are microporous crystalline aluminosilicates containing channels and cavities of nanometric dimensions. We used a sophisticated empirical potential for water, including the full flexibility of the molecule and the correct response to the electric field generated by the cations and by the charged atoms of the aluminosilicate framework. In addition, the full flexibility of the aluminosilicate framework was included in the calculations. Previously reported and new simulations of water confined in a number of different types of zeolites in the temperature range 100-300 K and at various coverage are discussed in connection with the experimental data. Dynamic crossover phenomena are found in all the considered cases, in spite of the different shape and size of the clusters, even when the confinement hinders the formation of tetrahedral hydrogen bonds for water molecules. Hypotheses about the possible dynamic crossover mechanisms are proposed.
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- G B Suffritti
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Sassari and INSTM, Unità di Ricerca di Sassari, Via Vienna 2, I-07100 Sassari, Italy
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Soper AK. Density profile of water confined in cylindrical pores in MCM-41 silica. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2012; 24:064107. [PMID: 22277549 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/24/6/064107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Recently, water absorbed in the porous silica material MCM-41-S15 has been used to demonstrate an apparent fragile to strong dynamical crossover on cooling below ∼220 K, and also to claim that the density of confined water reaches a minimum at a temperature around 200 K. Both of these behaviours are purported to arise from the crossing of a Widom line above a conjectured liquid-liquid critical point in bulk water. Here it is shown that traditional estimates of the pore diameter in this porous silica material (of order 15 Å) are too small to allow the amount of water that is observed to be absorbed by these materials (around 0.5 g H(2)O/g substrate) to be absorbed only inside the pore. Either the additional water is absorbed on the surface of the silica particles and outside the pores, or else the pores are larger than the traditional estimates. In addition the low Q Bragg intensities from a sample of MCM-41-S15 porous silica under different dry and wet conditions and with different hydrogen isotopes are simulated using a simple model of the water and silica density profile across the pore. It is found the best agreement of these intensities with experimental data is shown by assuming the much larger pore diameter of 25 Å (radius 12.5 Å). Qualitative agreement is found between these simulated density profiles and those found in recent empirical potential structure refinement simulations of the same data, even though the latter data did not specifically include the Bragg peaks in the structure refinement. It is shown that the change in the (100) peak intensity on cooling from 300 to 210 K, which previously has been ascribed to a change in density of the confined water on cooling, can equally be ascribed to a change in density profile at constant average density. It is further pointed out that, independent of whether the pore diameter really is as large as 25 Å or whether a significant amount of water is absorbed outside the pore, the earlier reports of a dynamic crossover in supercooled confined water could in fact be a crystallization transition in the larger pore or surface water.
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- Alan K Soper
- ISIS Facility, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 0QX, UK.
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Pantalei C, Senesi R, Andreani C, Sozzani P, Comotti A, Bracco S, Beretta M, Sokol PE, Reiter G. Interaction of single water molecules with silanols in mesoporous silica. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2011; 13:6022-8. [DOI: 10.1039/c0cp02479a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Garberoglio G. Single-particle and collective dynamics of methanol confined in carbon nanotubes: a computer simulation study. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2010; 22:415104. [PMID: 21386594 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/22/41/415104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We present the results of computer simulations of methanol confined in carbon nanotubes. Different levels of confinement were identified as a function of the nanotube radius and characterized using a pair-distribution function adapted to the cylindrical geometry of these systems. Dynamical properties of methanol were also analysed as a function of the nanotube size, both at the level of single-particle and collective properties. We found that confinement in narrow carbon nanotubes strongly affects the dynamical properties of methanol with respect to the bulk phase, due to the strong interaction with the carbon nanotube. In the other cases, confined methanol shows properties quite similar to those of the bulk phase. These phenomena are related to the peculiar hydrogen bonded network of methanol and are compared to the behaviour of water confined in similar conditions. The effect of nanotube flexibility on the dynamical properties of confined methanol is also discussed.
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- Giovanni Garberoglio
- Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Computational Science (LISC), FBK-CMM and University of Trento, via Sommarive 18, I-38123 Povo (TN), Italy.
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Chu XQ, Liu KH, Tyagi MS, Mou CY, Chen SH. Low-temperature dynamics of water confined in a hydrophobic mesoporous material. PHYSICAL REVIEW. E, STATISTICAL, NONLINEAR, AND SOFT MATTER PHYSICS 2010; 82:020501. [PMID: 20866765 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.82.020501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2010] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Quasielastic neutron scattering was used to study the dynamics of three-dimensional confined water in a hydrophobic mesoporous material designated as CMK-1 in the temperature range from 250 to 170 K. We observe a crossover phenomenon at temperature T(L) . We find that T(L) of water confined in CMK-1 occurs in between previous observations of one-dimensional confined water in materials with different hydrophilicities. This provides the first evidence that besides the obvious surface effect brought about by the hydrophobic confinements, T(L) is also dependent on the dimensionality of the geometry of the confinement.
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- Xiang-qiang Chu
- Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, USA
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Chen SH, Zhang Y, Lagi M, Chu X, Liu L, Faraone A, Fratini E, Baglioni P. The Dynamic Response Function χ
T(Q,t) of Confined Supercooled Water and its Relation to the Dynamic Crossover Phenomenon. Z PHYS CHEM 2010. [DOI: 10.1524/zpch.2010.6095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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We have made a series of Quasi-Elastic Neutron Scattering (QENS) studies of supercooled water confined in 3-D and 1-D geometries, specifically, interstitial water in aged cement paste (3-D) and water confined in MCM-41-S and Double Wall Nano Tube DWNT (1-D). In addition, we also include the cases of hydration water on protein surface and other biopolymer surfaces (pseudo 2-D). By analyzing the QENS spectra using Relaxing Cage Model (RCM), we are able to extract accurately the self-intermediate scattering function of hydrogen atoms FH(Q,t), at low-Q as a function of temperature T, showing an α-relaxation process at long time. We can then construct the Dynamic Response Function χT(Q,t) = -dFH(Q,t)/dT. χT(Q,t) as a function of t at constant Q shows a single peak at the characteristic α-relaxation time 〈τ〉, the amplitude of which grows as we approach the dynamic crossover temperature TL observed before in each of these geometries. However, the peak height of χT(Q,t) decreases after passing the crossover temperature TL. We make an argument to relate the occurrence of the extremum of the peak height in χT to the existence of the dynamic crossover temperature in each of these cases.
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Garberoglio G. Collective properties of water confined in carbon nanotubes: A computer simulation study. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2010; 31:73-80. [PMID: 20087621 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2010-10552-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2009] [Revised: 11/09/2009] [Accepted: 12/03/2009] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The collective properties of water confined in the (10,10), (8,8) and (6,6) carbon nanotubes are studied by analysing the longitudinal-current autocorrelation function, calculated from computer-simulated trajectories. The corresponding spectra clearly show the presence of two excitations, but their behaviour is quite different from that observed in the case of bulk water. Instead of the strong positive dispersion of the hydrodynamic sound mode characteristic of bulk water (the fast-sound phenomenon), the sound dispersion relation of confined water is observed to flatten into a non-propagating mode, while a second excitation appears at a higher frequency. This behaviour is analysed in terms of the localized oscillation modes of the hydrogen-bond network.
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- G Garberoglio
- CNISM and Dipartimento di Fisica dell'Università di Trento, Italy.
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