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Fidanyan K, Liu G, Rossi M. Ab initio study of water dissociation on a charged Pd(111) surface. J Chem Phys 2023; 158:094707. [PMID: 36889966 DOI: 10.1063/5.0139082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/10/2023] Open
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The interactions between molecules and electrode surfaces play a key role in electrochemical processes and are a subject of extensive research, both experimental and theoretical. In this paper, we address the water dissociation reaction on a Pd(111) electrode surface, modeled as a slab embedded in an external electric field. We aim at unraveling the relationship between surface charge and zero-point energy in aiding or hindering this reaction. We calculate the energy barriers with dispersion-corrected density-functional theory and an efficient parallel implementation of the nudged-elastic-band method. We show that the lowest dissociation barrier and consequently the highest reaction rate take place when the field reaches a strength where two different geometries of the water molecule in the reactant state are equally stable. The zero-point energy contributions to this reaction, on the other hand, remain nearly constant across a wide range of electric field strengths, despite significant changes in the reactant state. Interestingly, we show that the application of electric fields that induce a negative charge on the surface can make nuclear tunneling more significant for these reactions.
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- Karen Fidanyan
- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Ganeshan K, Khanal R, Muraleedharan MG, Hellström M, Kent PRC, Irle S, van Duin ACT. Importance of Nuclear Quantum Effects on Aqueous Electrolyte Transport under Confinement in Ti 3C 2 MXenes. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:6920-6931. [PMID: 36269878 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00771] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Protons display a high chemical activity and strongly affect the charge storage capability in confined interlayer spaces of two-dimensional (2D) materials. As such, an accurate representation of proton dynamics under confinement is important for understanding and predicting charge storage dynamics in these materials. While often ignored in atomistic-scale simulations, nuclear quantum effects (NQEs), e.g., tunneling, can be significant under confinement even at room temperature. Using the thermostatted ring polymer molecular dynamics implementation of path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) in conjunction with the ReaxFF force field, density functional tight binding (DFTB), and NequIP neural network potential simulations, we investigate the role of NQEs on proton and water transport in bulk water and aqueous electrolytes under confinement in Ti3C2 MXenes. Although overall NQEs are relatively small, especially in bulk, we find that they can alter both quantitative values and qualitative trends on both proton transport and water self-diffusion under confinement relative to classical MD predictions. Therefore, our results suggest the need for NQEs to be considered to simulate aqueous systems under confinement for both qualitative and quantitative accuracy.
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- Karthik Ganeshan
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania16802, United States
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- Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee37831, United States
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- Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee37831, United States
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- Software for Chemistry and Materials B.V., Amsterdam1081HV, The Netherlands
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences and Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee37831, United States
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- Computational Sciences and Engineering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee37831, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania16802, United States
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Ryu WH, Voth GA. Coarse-Graining of Imaginary Time Feynman Path Integrals: Inclusion of Intramolecular Interactions and Bottom-up Force-Matching. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:6004-6019. [PMID: 36007243 PMCID: PMC9466601 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c04349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Revised: 08/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Feynman's imaginary time path integral formalism of quantum statistical mechanics and the corresponding quantum-classical isomorphism provide a tangible way of incorporating nuclear quantum effect (NQE) in the simulation of condensed matter systems using well-developed classical simulation techniques. Our previous work has presented the many-body coarse-graining of path integral (CG-PI) theory that builds an isomorphism between the quantum partition function of N distinguishable particles and the classical partition function of 2N pseudoparticles. In this present work, we develop a generalized version of the many-body CG-PI theory that incorporates many-body interactions in the force field. Based on the new derivation, we provide a numerical CG-PI (n-CG-PI) modeling strategy parametrized from the underlying path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD) trajectories using force matching and Boltzmann inversion. The n-CG-PI models for two liquid systems are shown to capture well both the intramolecular and intermolecular structural correlations of the reference PIMD simulations. The generalized derivation of the many-body CG-PI theory and the n-CG-PI model presented in this work extend the scope of the CG-PI formalism by generalizing the previously limited theory to incorporate force fields of realistic molecular systems.
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- Won Hee Ryu
- Department of Chemistry,
James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Department of Chemistry,
James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Nagatsuka N, Shibata N, Muratani T, Watanabe K. Proton Configuration in Water Chain on Pt(533). J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:7660-7666. [PMID: 35959992 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01378] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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In this paper, a wetting behavior of Pt(533) is studied by using heterodyne-detected vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy under an ultrahigh-vacuum condition at 145 K. The imaginary parts of the surface nonlinear susceptibility (Imχ(2)) of the H-bonded OH stretching region are successfully obtained for submonolayer water coverage that show negative bands indicating H-down (proton pointing to the substrate) configurations both for the water at the step and at the terrace. The growth manner of the Imχ(2) signal with coverage and the results of an isotopic dilution are consistent with a model in which a one-dimensional (1D) chain at the step forms a "zigzag" structure that contains H-down orientations. This finding resolves the previous controversy in the literature concerning the proton configuration in the 1D water chain at the step.
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- Naoki Nagatsuka
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan
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Eckhoff M, Behler J. Insights into lithium manganese oxide-water interfaces using machine learning potentials. J Chem Phys 2021; 155:244703. [PMID: 34972388 DOI: 10.1063/5.0073449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Unraveling the atomistic and the electronic structure of solid-liquid interfaces is the key to the design of new materials for many important applications, from heterogeneous catalysis to battery technology. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations can, in principle, provide a reliable description of such interfaces, but the high computational costs severely restrict the accessible time and length scales. Here, we report machine learning-driven simulations of various interfaces between water and lithium manganese oxide (LixMn2O4), an important electrode material in lithium ion batteries and a catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction. We employ a high-dimensional neural network potential to compute the energies and forces several orders of magnitude faster than DFT without loss in accuracy. In addition, a high-dimensional neural network for spin prediction is utilized to analyze the electronic structure of the manganese ions. Combining these methods, a series of interfaces is investigated by large-scale molecular dynamics. The simulations allow us to gain insights into a variety of properties, such as the dissociation of water molecules, proton transfer processes, and hydrogen bonds, as well as the geometric and electronic structure of the solid surfaces, including the manganese oxidation state distribution, Jahn-Teller distortions, and electron hopping.
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- Marco Eckhoff
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Theoretische Chemie, Universität Göttingen, Tammannstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Theoretische Chemie, Universität Göttingen, Tammannstraße 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Ogawa T, Ohashi H, Anilkumar GM, Tamaki T, Yamaguchi T. Suitable acid groups and density in electrolytes to facilitate proton conduction. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:23778-23786. [PMID: 34643626 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00718a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Proton conducting materials suffer from low proton conductivity under low-relative humidity (RH) conditions. Previously, it was reported that acid-acid interactions, where acids interact with each other at close distances, can facilitate proton conduction without water movement and are promising for overcoming this drawback [T. Ogawa, H. Ohashi, T. Tamaki and T. Yamaguchi, Chem. Phys. Lett., 2019, 731, 136627]. However, acid groups have not been compared to find a suitable acid group and density for the interaction, which is important to experimentally synthesize the material. Here, we performed ab initio calculations to identify acid groups and acid densities as a polymer design that effectively causes acid-acid interactions. The evaluation method employed parameters based on several different optimized coordination interactions of acids and water molecules. The results show that the order of the abilities of polymer electrolytes to readily induce acid-acid interactions is hydrocarbon-based phosphonated polymers > phosphonated aromatic hydrocarbon polymers > perfluorosulfonic acid polymers ≈ perfluorophosphonic acid polymers > sulfonated aromatic hydrocarbon polymers. The acid-acid interaction becomes stronger as the distance between acids decreases. The preferable distance between phosphonate moieties is within 13 Å.
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- Takaya Ogawa
- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan.
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan.
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan. .,Research & Development Center, Noritake, Co., Ltd., 300 Higashiyama, Miyoshi cho, Miyoshi, Aichi 470-0293, Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan. .,Kanagawa Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagatsuta 4259, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan. .,Kanagawa Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8503, Japan
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Rossi M. Progress and challenges in ab initio simulations of quantum nuclei in weakly bonded systems. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:170902. [PMID: 34241065 DOI: 10.1063/5.0042572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Atomistic simulations based on the first-principles of quantum mechanics are reaching unprecedented length scales. This progress is due to the growth in computational power allied with the development of new methodologies that allow the treatment of electrons and nuclei as quantum particles. In the realm of materials science, where the quest for desirable emergent properties relies increasingly on soft weakly bonded materials, such methods have become indispensable. In this Perspective, an overview of simulation methods that are applicable for large system sizes and that can capture the quantum nature of electrons and nuclei in the adiabatic approximation is given. In addition, the remaining challenges are discussed, especially regarding the inclusion of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) beyond a harmonic or perturbative treatment, the impact of NQEs on electronic properties of weakly bonded systems, and how different first-principles potential energy surfaces can change the impact of NQEs on the atomic structure and dynamics of weakly bonded systems.
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- Mariana Rossi
- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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Barreca D, Fois E, Gasparotto A, Maccato C, Oriani M, Tabacchi G. The Early Steps of Molecule-to-Material Conversion in Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD): A Case Study. Molecules 2021; 26:molecules26071988. [PMID: 33916041 PMCID: PMC8037710 DOI: 10.3390/molecules26071988] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2021] [Revised: 03/27/2021] [Accepted: 03/29/2021] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Transition metal complexes with β-diketonate and diamine ligands are valuable precursors for chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of metal oxide nanomaterials, but the metal-ligand bond dissociation mechanism on the growth surface is not yet clarified in detail. We address this question by density functional theory (DFT) and ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) in combination with the Blue Moon (BM) statistical sampling approach. AIMD simulations of the Zn β-diketonate-diamine complex Zn(hfa)2TMEDA (hfa = 1,1,1,5,5,5-hexafluoro-2,4-pentanedionate; TMEDA = N,N,N′,N′-tetramethylethylenediamine), an amenable precursor for the CVD of ZnO nanosystems, show that rolling diffusion of this precursor at 500 K on a hydroxylated silica slab leads to an octahedral-to-square pyramidal rearrangement of its molecular geometry. The free energy profile of the octahedral-to-square pyramidal conversion indicates that the process barrier (5.8 kcal/mol) is of the order of magnitude of the thermal energy at the operating temperature. The formation of hydrogen bonds with surface hydroxyl groups plays a key role in aiding the dissociation of a Zn-O bond. In the square-pyramidal complex, the Zn center has a free coordination position, which might promote the interaction with incoming reagents on the deposition surface. These results provide a valuable atomistic insight on the molecule-to-material conversion process which, in perspective, might help to tailor by design the first nucleation stages of the target ZnO-based nanostructures.
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- Davide Barreca
- CNR-ICMATE and INSTM, Department of Chemical Sciences, Padova University, 35131 Padova, Italy;
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- Department of Science and High Technology, Insubria University and INSTM, 22100 Como, Italy; (E.F.); (M.O.)
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Padova University and INSTM, 35131 Padova, Italy; (A.G.); (C.M.)
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, Padova University and INSTM, 35131 Padova, Italy; (A.G.); (C.M.)
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- Department of Science and High Technology, Insubria University and INSTM, 22100 Como, Italy; (E.F.); (M.O.)
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- Department of Science and High Technology, Insubria University and INSTM, 22100 Como, Italy; (E.F.); (M.O.)
- Correspondence:
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Fidanyan K, Hamada I, Rossi M. Quantum Nuclei at Weakly Bonded Interfaces: The Case of Cyclohexane on Rh(111). ADVANCED THEORY AND SIMULATIONS 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/adts.202000241] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Karen Fidanyan
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society Faradayweg 4‐6 Berlin 14195 Germany
- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter Luruper Chaussee 149 Hamburg 22761 Germany
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- Department of Precision Engineering Graduate School of Engineering Osaka University 2‐1 Yamadaoka Suita Osaka 565‐0871 Japan
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- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society Faradayweg 4‐6 Berlin 14195 Germany
- Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter Luruper Chaussee 149 Hamburg 22761 Germany
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Grisafi A, Nigam J, Ceriotti M. Multi-scale approach for the prediction of atomic scale properties. Chem Sci 2020; 12:2078-2090. [PMID: 34163971 PMCID: PMC8179303 DOI: 10.1039/d0sc04934d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Electronic nearsightedness is one of the fundamental principles that governs the behavior of condensed matter and supports its description in terms of local entities such as chemical bonds. Locality also underlies the tremendous success of machine-learning schemes that predict quantum mechanical observables - such as the cohesive energy, the electron density, or a variety of response properties - as a sum of atom-centred contributions, based on a short-range representation of atomic environments. One of the main shortcomings of these approaches is their inability to capture physical effects ranging from electrostatic interactions to quantum delocalization, which have a long-range nature. Here we show how to build a multi-scale scheme that combines in the same framework local and non-local information, overcoming such limitations. We show that the simplest version of such features can be put in formal correspondence with a multipole expansion of permanent electrostatics. The data-driven nature of the model construction, however, makes this simple form suitable to tackle also different types of delocalized and collective effects. We present several examples that range from molecular physics to surface science and biophysics, demonstrating the ability of this multi-scale approach to model interactions driven by electrostatics, polarization and dispersion, as well as the cooperative behavior of dielectric response functions.
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- Andrea Grisafi
- Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling, IMX, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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- Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling, IMX, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 1015 Lausanne Switzerland .,National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 1015 Lausanne Switzerland.,Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology Thiruvananthapuram 695547 India
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- Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling, IMX, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 1015 Lausanne Switzerland .,National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 1015 Lausanne Switzerland
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Litman Y, Rossi M. Multidimensional Hydrogen Tunneling in Supported Molecular Switches: The Role of Surface Interactions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 125:216001. [PMID: 33275002 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.216001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2020] [Accepted: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The nuclear tunneling crossover temperature (T_{c}) of hydrogen transfer reactions in supported molecular-switch architectures can lie close to room temperature. This calls for the inclusion of nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) in the calculation of reaction rates even at high temperatures. However, computations of NQEs relying on standard parametrized dimensionality-reduced models quickly become inadequate in these environments. In this Letter, we study the paradigmatic molecular switch based on porphycene molecules adsorbed on metallic surfaces with full-dimensional calculations that combine density-functional theory for the electrons with the semiclassical ring-polymer instanton approximation for the nuclei. We show that the double intramolecular hydrogen transfer (DHT) rate can be enhanced by orders of magnitude due to surface fluctuations in the deep-tunneling regime. We also explain the origin of an Arrhenius temperature dependence of the rate below T_{c} and why this dependence differs at different surfaces. We propose a simple model to rationalize the temperature dependence of DHT rates spanning diverse fcc [110] surfaces.
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- Yair Litman
- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany and Institute for Chemistry and Biochemistry, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Faradayweg 4-6, 14195 Berlin, Germany and MPI for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
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Wang W. Physisorbed State Regulates the Dissociation Mechanism of H 2O on Ni(100). J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:8724-8732. [PMID: 33045831 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c06130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Water dissociation is a key step in many industrial catalytic processes. The dissociation of H2O on a rigid Ni(100) surface was investigated by the quantum instanton method with a full-dimensional potential energy surface. The calculated free-energy barrier maps showed that the free-energy barrier varied dramatically with the surface site. The free-energy well map demonstrated that the physisorption well of H2O was existent at all of the surface sites, and H2O could be dissociated by both the direct and steady-state processes. The calculated direct dissociation rate constants at different surface sites decreased rapidly in the order transition state (TS) > bridge > top > hollow. The steady-state dissociation rate constants had the same trend as that of the direct process but the steady-state dissociation rate constant at the top site became the largest at high temperatures. The direct dissociation rate constants were always larger than those of the steady-state process at a given temperature. The calculated kinetic isotope effects for the direct and steady-state processes were extremely large at low temperatures, which was caused by the zero-point energy correction and remarkable quantum tunneling. From low temperature to high temperature, H2O would undergo stable molecular adsorption at the top site, steady-state dissociation at the TS site, direct rupture at the TS site, and direct decomposition at the impact site.
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- Wenji Wang
- College of Chemistry & Pharmacy, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Xianyang 712100, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China
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Lan J, Rybkin VV, Iannuzzi M. Ionization of Water as an Effect of Quantum Delocalization at Aqueous Electrode Interfaces. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:3724-3730. [PMID: 32315196 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c01025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The enhanced probability of water dissociation at the aqueous electrode interfaces is predicted by path-integral ab initio molecular dynamics. The ionization process is observed at the aqueous platinum interface when nuclear quantum effects are introduced in the statistical sampling, while minor effects have been observed at the gold interface. We characterize the dissociation mechanism of the formed water ions. In spite of the fact that the concentration and lifetime of the ions might be challenging to experimentally detect, they may serve as a guide to future experiments. Our observation might have a significant impact on the understanding of electrochemical processes occurring at the metal electrode surface.
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- Jinggang Lan
- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich 8057, Switzerland
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The diffusion of water molecules and clusters across the surfaces of materials is important to a wide range of processes. Interestingly, experiments have shown that on certain substrates, water dimers can diffuse more rapidly than water monomers. Whilst explanations for anomalously fast diffusion have been presented for specific systems, the general underlying physical principles are not yet established. We investigate this through a systematic ab initio study of water monomer and dimer diffusion on a range of surfaces. Calculations reveal different mechanisms for fast water dimer diffusion, which is found to be more widespread than previously anticipated. The key factors affecting diffusion are the balance of water-water versus water-surface bonding and the ease with which hydrogen-bond exchange can occur (either through a classical over-the-barrier process or through quantum-mechanical tunnelling). We anticipate that the insights gained will be useful for understanding future experiments on the diffusion and clustering of hydrogen-bonded adsorbates. The experimental observation that water dimers diffuse more rapidly than monomers across materials’ surfaces is yet to be clarified. Here the authors show by ab initio calculations classical and quantum mechanical mechanisms for faster water dimer diffusion on a broad range of metal and non-metal surfaces.
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Turi L, Rodriguez J, Laria D. Combined Effects from Solvation and Nuclear Quantum Fluctuations on Autoionization Mechanisms in Aqueous Clusters. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:2198-2208. [PMID: 32075372 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b11087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Using path-integral molecular dynamics simulations, we examine isomerization paths involving collective proton transfers in [H2O]5 and [H2O]8 clusters under cryogenic conditions. We focused attention on combined effects derived from solvation and nuclear quantum fluctuations on the characteristics of free energy barriers and relative stabilities of reactants and products. In particular, we analyzed two different processes: the first one involves the exchange of donor-acceptor hydrogen bond roles along cyclic moieties, whereas the second one corresponds to charge separation leading to stable [H3O]+[OH]- ion pairs. In the first case, the explicit incorporation of quantum tunneling introduces important modifications in the classical free energy profile. The resulting quantum profile presents two main contributions, one corresponding to compressions of O-O distances and a second one ascribed to nuclear tunneling of the light protons. Solvation effects promote a moderate polarization of the cyclic structures and a partial loss of concertedness in the collective modes, most notably, at the onset of tunneling. Still, the latter effects are also sufficiently strong to promote the stabilization of ion pairs along the classical trajectories. In contrast, the explicit incorporation of nuclear quantum fluctuations leads to charge separated configurations that are marginally stable. As such, the latter states could also be regarded as short-lived intermediate states along the reactive exchange path.
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- László Turi
- Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, P.O. Box 32, Budapest, 112 H-1518, Hungary
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- Departamento de Fı́sica de la Materia Condensada, Comisión Nacional de Energı́a Atómica, Avenida Libertador 8250, 1429 Buenos Aires, Argentina.,ECyT, UNSAM, Martı́n de Irigoyen 3100, 1650 San Martı́n, Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Fı́sica de la Materia Condensada, Comisión Nacional de Energı́a Atómica, Avenida Libertador 8250, 1429 Buenos Aires, Argentina.,Departamento de Quı́mica Inorgánica, Analı́tica y Quı́mica-Fı́sica and INQUIMAE-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires Ciudad Universitaria, Pabellón II, 1428 Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Cazzaniga M, Micciarelli M, Moriggi F, Mahmoud A, Gabas F, Ceotto M. Anharmonic calculations of vibrational spectra for molecular adsorbates: A divide-and-conquer semiclassical molecular dynamics approach. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:104104. [PMID: 32171221 DOI: 10.1063/1.5142682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The vibrational spectroscopy of adsorbates is becoming an important investigation tool for catalysis and material science. This paper presents a semiclassical molecular dynamics method able to reproduce the vibrational energy levels of systems composed by molecules adsorbed on solid surfaces. Specifically, we extend our divide-and-conquer semiclassical method for power spectra calculations to gas-surface systems and interface it with plane-wave electronic structure codes. The Born-Oppenheimer classical dynamics underlying the semiclassical calculation is full dimensional, and our method includes not only the motion of the adsorbate but also those of the surface and the bulk. The vibrational spectroscopic peaks related to the adsorbate are accounted together with the most coupled phonon modes to obtain spectra amenable to physical interpretations. We apply the method to the adsorption of CO, NO, and H2O on the anatase-TiO2 (101) surface. We compare our semiclassical results with the single-point harmonic estimates and the classical power spectra obtained from the same trajectory employed in the semiclassical calculation. We find that CO and NO anharmonic effects of fundamental vibrations are similarly reproduced by the classical and semiclassical dynamics and that H2O adsorption is fully and properly described in its overtone and combination band relevant components only by the semiclassical approach.
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- Marco Cazzaniga
- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Chimica, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Golgi 19, 20133 Milano, Italy
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Tabacchi G, Fabbiani M, Mino L, Martra G, Fois E. The Case of Formic Acid on Anatase TiO 2 (101): Where is the Acid Proton? Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:12431-12434. [PMID: 31310450 DOI: 10.1002/anie.201906709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/29/2019] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Carboxylic-acid adsorption on anatase TiO2 is a relevant process in many technological applications. Yet, despite several decades of investigations, the acid-proton localization-either on the molecule or on the surface-is still an open issue. By modeling the adsorption of formic acid on top of anatase(101) surfaces, we highlight the formation of a short strong hydrogen bond. In the 0 K limit, the acid-proton behavior is ruled by quantum delocalization effects in a single potential well, while at ambient conditions, the proton undergoes a rapid classical shuttling in a shallow two-well free-energy profile. This picture, supported by agreement with available experiments, shows that the anatase surface acts like a protecting group for the carboxylic acid functionality. Such a new conceptual insight might help rationalize chemical processes involving carboxylic acids on oxide surfaces.
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- Gloria Tabacchi
- Department of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria and INSTM, via Valleggio 9, I-22100, Como, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces NIS interdepartmental centre, University of Torino, via P. Giuria 7, I-10125, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces NIS interdepartmental centre, University of Torino, via P. Giuria 7, I-10125, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces NIS interdepartmental centre, University of Torino, via P. Giuria 7, I-10125, Torino, Italy
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- Department of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria and INSTM, via Valleggio 9, I-22100, Como, Italy
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Tabacchi G, Fabbiani M, Mino L, Martra G, Fois E. The Case of Formic Acid on Anatase TiO
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(101): Where is the Acid Proton? Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201906709] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Gloria Tabacchi
- Department of Science and High TechnologyUniversity of Insubria and INSTM via Valleggio 9 I-22100 Como Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces NIS interdepartmental centreUniversity of Torino via P. Giuria 7 I-10125 Torino Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces NIS interdepartmental centreUniversity of Torino via P. Giuria 7 I-10125 Torino Italy
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- Department of Chemistry and Nanostructured Interfaces and Surfaces NIS interdepartmental centreUniversity of Torino via P. Giuria 7 I-10125 Torino Italy
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- Department of Science and High TechnologyUniversity of Insubria and INSTM via Valleggio 9 I-22100 Como Italy
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Ryu WH, Han Y, Voth GA. Coarse-graining of many-body path integrals: Theory and numerical approximations. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:244103. [PMID: 31255057 DOI: 10.1063/1.5097141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Feynman's imaginary time path integral approach to quantum statistical mechanics provides a theoretical formalism for including nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) in simulation of condensed matter systems. Sinitskiy and Voth [J. Chem. Phys. 143, 094104 (2015)] have presented the coarse-grained path integral (CG-PI) theory, which provides a reductionist coarse-grained representation of the imaginary time path integral based on the quantum-classical isomorphism. In this paper, the many-body generalization of the CG-PI theory is presented. It is shown that the N interacting particles obeying quantum Boltzmann statistics can be represented as a system of N pairs of classical-like pseudoparticles coupled to each other analogous to the pseudoparticle pair of the one-body theory. Moreover, we present a numerical CG-PI (n-CG-PI) method applying a simple approximation to the coupling scheme between the pseudoparticles due to numerical challenges of directly implementing the full many-body CG-PI theory. Structural correlations of two liquid systems are investigated to demonstrate the performance of the n-CG-PI method. Both the many-body CG-PI theory and the n-CG-PI method not only present reductionist views of the many-body quantum Boltzmann statistics but also provide theoretical and numerical insight into how to explicitly incorporate NQEs in the representation of condensed matter systems with minimal additional degrees of freedom.
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- Won Hee Ryu
- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, James Franck Institute, and Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Hellström M, Ceriotti M, Behler J. Nuclear Quantum Effects in Sodium Hydroxide Solutions from Neural Network Molecular Dynamics Simulations. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:10158-10171. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b06433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Matti Hellström
- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
- Universität Göttingen, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Theoretische Chemie, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Lehrstuhl für Theoretische Chemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany
- Universität Göttingen, Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Theoretische Chemie, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Hartkamp R, Biance AL, Fu L, Dufrêche JF, Bonhomme O, Joly L. Measuring surface charge: Why experimental characterization and molecular modeling should be coupled. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2018.08.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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