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Mitra S, Biswas R. Exploring the capabilities and limitations of the Van Hove function to understand directional correlations in ion movements within Li-ion battery electrolytes. J Chem Phys 2024; 161:064501. [PMID: 39120038 DOI: 10.1063/5.0209481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2024] [Accepted: 07/26/2024] [Indexed: 08/10/2024] Open
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Understanding microscopic directional correlations in ion movements within lithium-ion battery (LIB) electrolytes is important because these correlations directly affect the ionic conductivity. Onsager transport coefficients are widely used to understand these correlations. On the other hand, the Van Hove function (VHF) is also capable of determining correlated motions. However, identifying various types of ion correlated motions in LIB electrolytes using VHF is not well explored. Here, we have conducted molecular dynamics simulations of a representative experimental LIB electrolyte system-lithium hexafluorophosphate (LiPF6)-at different concentrations in a (9:1 wt. %) mixture of ethyl methyl carbonate and fluoroethylene carbonate in order to explore the capabilities and limitations of using VHF to understand different types of ion correlations. We conclude that analysis of VHF can qualitatively describe both the positive correlation between cation-anion at different salt concentrations and the negative correlation between cation-cation and anion-anion present in high salt concentration, but it cannot foretell which correlation is dominating at any given electrolyte concentration. This type of quantitative information can be obtained only via Onsager's approach. This could be seen as a limitation of relying solely on VHF to fully understand ion correlation in electrolyte media.
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- Sudipta Mitra
- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-3, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences, S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-3, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India
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Clark JA, Douglas JF. Do Specific Ion Effects on Collective Relaxation Arise from Perturbation of Hydrogen-Bonding Network Structure? J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:6362-6375. [PMID: 38912895 PMCID: PMC11229691 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c02638] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2024] [Revised: 06/07/2024] [Accepted: 06/10/2024] [Indexed: 06/25/2024]
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The change in the transport properties (i.e., water diffusivity, shear viscosity, etc.) when adding salts to water has been used to classify ions as either being chaotropic or kosmotropic, a terminology based on the presumption that this phenomenon arises from respective breakdown or enhancement of the hydrogen-bonding network structure. Recent quasi-elastic neutron scattering measurements of the collective structural relaxation time, τC, in aqueous salt solutions were interpreted as confirming this proposed origin of ion effects on the dynamics of water. However, we find similar changes in τC in the same salt solutions based on molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using a coarse-grained water model in which no hydrogen bonding exists, challenging this conventional interpretation of mobility change resulting from the addition of salts to water. A thorough understanding of specific ion effects should be useful in diverse material manufacturing and biomedical applications, where these effects are prevalent, but poorly understood.
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- Jennifer A. Clark
- Materials Science and Engineering
Division, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Materials Science and Engineering
Division, Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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Kellouai W, Barrat JL, Judeinstein P, Plazanet M, Coasne B. On De Gennes narrowing of fluids confined at the molecular scale in nanoporous materials. J Chem Phys 2024; 160:024113. [PMID: 38193554 DOI: 10.1063/5.0186956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 12/10/2023] [Indexed: 01/10/2024] Open
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Beyond well-documented confinement and surface effects arising from the large internal surface and severely confining porosity of nanoporous hosts, the transport of nanoconfined fluids remains puzzling in many aspects. With striking examples such as memory, i.e., non-viscous effects, intermittent dynamics, and surface barriers, the dynamics of fluids in nanoconfinement challenge classical formalisms (e.g., random walk, viscous/advective transport)-especially for molecular pore sizes. In this context, while molecular frameworks such as intermittent Brownian motion, free volume theory, and surface diffusion are available to describe the self-diffusion of a molecularly confined fluid, a microscopic theory for collective diffusion (i.e., permeability), which characterizes the flow induced by a thermodynamic gradient, is lacking. Here, to fill this knowledge gap, we invoke the concept of "De Gennes narrowing," which relates the wavevector-dependent collective diffusivity D0(q) to the fluid structure factor S(q). First, using molecular simulation for a simple yet representative fluid confined in a prototypical solid (zeolite), we unravel an essential coupling between the wavevector-dependent collective diffusivity and the structural ordering imposed on the fluid by the crystalline nanoporous host. Second, despite this complex interplay with marked Bragg peaks in the fluid structure, the fluid collective dynamics is shown to be accurately described through De Gennes narrowing. Moreover, in contrast to the bulk fluid, the departure from De Gennes narrowing for the confined fluid in the macroscopic limit remains small as the fluid/solid interactions in severe confinement screen collective effects and, hence, weaken the wavevector dependence of collective transport.
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- Wanda Kellouai
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, F-38000 Grenoble, France
- Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, F-38000 Grenoble, France
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Zhang X, Lou H, Ruta B, Chushkin Y, Zontone F, Li S, Xu D, Liang T, Zeng Z, Mao HK, Zeng Q. Pressure-induced nonmonotonic cross-over of steady relaxation dynamics in a metallic glass. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2302281120. [PMID: 37276419 PMCID: PMC10268294 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2302281120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/10/2023] [Accepted: 05/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/07/2023] Open
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Relaxation dynamics, as a key to understand glass formation and glassy properties, remains an elusive and challenging issue in condensed matter physics. In this work, in situ high-pressure synchrotron high-energy X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy has been developed to probe the atomic-scale relaxation dynamics of a cerium-based metallic glass during compression. Although the sample density continuously increases, the collective atomic motion initially slows down as generally expected and then counterintuitively accelerates with further compression (density increase), showing an unusual nonmonotonic pressure-induced steady relaxation dynamics cross-over at ~3 GPa. Furthermore, by combining in situ high-pressure synchrotron X-ray diffraction, the relaxation dynamics anomaly is evidenced to closely correlate with the dramatic changes in local atomic structures during compression, rather than monotonically scaling with either sample density or overall stress level. These findings could provide insight into relaxation dynamics and their relationship with local atomic structures of glasses.
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- Xin Zhang
- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai201203, China
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai201203, China
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- Université Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Institut Lumière Matière, Campus LyonTech–La Doua, LyonF-69622, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility-The European Synchrotron, GrenobleCS 40220, 38043, France
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- European Synchrotron Radiation Facility-The European Synchrotron, GrenobleCS 40220, 38043, France
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- Université Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Institut Lumière Matière, Campus LyonTech–La Doua, LyonF-69622, France
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai201203, China
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai201203, China
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai201203, China
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai201203, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Material Frontiers Research in Extreme Environments, Shanghai Advanced Research in Physical Sciences, Shanghai201203, China
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- Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, Shanghai201203, China
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Material Frontiers Research in Extreme Environments, Shanghai Advanced Research in Physical Sciences, Shanghai201203, China
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Ghosh A. Importance of Many Particle Correlations to the Collective Debye-Waller Factor in a Single-Particle Activated Dynamic Theory of the Glass Transition. J Phys Chem B 2023. [PMID: 37229571 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c02089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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We theoretically study the importance of many body correlations on the collective Debye-Waller (DW) factor in the context of the Nonlinear Langevin Equation (NLE) single-particle activated dynamics theory of glass transition and its extension to include collective elasticity (ECNLE theory). This microscopic force-based approach envisions structural alpha relaxation as a coupled local-nonlocal process involving correlated local cage and longer range collective barriers. The crucial question addressed here is the importance of the deGennes narrowing contribution versus a literal Vineyard approximation for the collective DW factor that enters the construction of the dynamic free energy in NLE theory. While the Vineyard-deGennes approach-based NLE theory and its ECNLE theory extension yields predictions that agree well with experimental and simulation results, use of a literal Vineyard approximation for the collective DW factor massively overpredicts the activated relaxation time. The current study suggests many particle correlations are crucial for a reliable description of activated dynamics theory of model hard sphere fluids.
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- Ashesh Ghosh
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Egami T, Ryu CW. World beyond the nearest neighbors. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2023; 35:174002. [PMID: 36812595 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/acbe24] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The structure beyond the nearest neighbor atoms in liquid and glass is characterized by the medium-range order (MRO). In the conventional approach, the MRO is considered to result directly from the short-range order (SRO) in the nearest neighbors. To this bottom-up approach starting with the SRO, we propose to add a top-down approach in which global collective forces drive liquid to form density waves. The two approaches are in conflict with each other, and the compromise produces the structure with the MRO. The driving force to produce density waves provides the stability and stiffness to the MRO, and controls various mechanical properties. This dual framework provides a novel perspective for description of the structure and dynamics of liquid and glass.
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- Takeshi Egami
- Shull-Wollan Center and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, United States of America
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- Shull-Wollan Center and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hongik University, Seoul 04066, Republic of Korea
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Shinohara Y, Ivanov AS, Maltsev D, Granroth GE, Abernathy DL, Dai S, Egami T. Real-Space Local Dynamics of Molten Inorganic Salts Using Van Hove Correlation Function. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:5956-5962. [PMID: 35735362 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c01230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Molten inorganic salts are attracting resurgent attention because of their unique physicochemical properties, making them promising media for next-generation concentrating solar power systems and molten salt reactors. The dynamics of these highly disordered ionic media is largely studied by theoretical simulations, while the robust experimental techniques capable of observing local dynamics are not well-developed. To provide fundamental insights into the atomic-scale transport properties of molten salts, we report the real-space dynamics of molten magnesium chloride at high temperatures employing the Van Hove correlation function obtained by inelastic neutron scattering. Our results directly depict the distance-dependent dynamics of a molten salt on the picosecond time scale. This study demonstrates the capability of the developed approach to describe the locally correlated- and self-dynamics in molten salts, significantly improving our understanding of the interplay between microscopic structural parameters and their dynamics that ultimately control physical properties of condensed matter in extreme environments.
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- Yuya Shinohara
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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Song S, Zhu F, Chen M. Universal scaling law of glass rheology. NATURE MATERIALS 2022; 21:404-409. [PMID: 35102307 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-021-01185-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The similarity in atomic/molecular structure between liquids and glasses has stimulated a long-standing hypothesis that the nature of glasses may be more fluid-like, rather than the apparent solid. In principle, the nature of glasses can be characterized by the dynamic response of their rheology in a wide rate range, but this has not been realized experimentally, to the best of our knowledge. Here we report the dynamic response of shear stress to the shear strain rate of metallic glasses over a timescale of nine orders of magnitude, equivalent to hundreds of years, by broadband stress relaxation experiments. The dynamic response of the metallic glasses, together with other 'glasses', follows a universal scaling law within the framework of fluid dynamics. The universal scaling law provides comprehensive validation of the conjecture on the jamming (dynamic) phase diagram by which the dynamic behaviours of a wide variety of 'glasses' can be unified under one rubric parameterized by the thermodynamic variables of temperature, volume and stress in the trajectory space.
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- Shuangxi Song
- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China
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- State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, PR China
- WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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- WPI Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
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Ryu CW, Egami T. Medium-range atomic correlation in simple liquids. I. Distinction from short-range order. Phys Rev E 2022; 104:064109. [PMID: 35030901 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.104.064109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2021] [Accepted: 11/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Physical properties of liquids and glasses are controlled not only by the short-range order (SRO) in the nearest-neighbor atoms but also by the medium-range order (MRO) observed for atoms beyond the nearest neighbors. In this article the nature of the MRO as the descriptor of point-to-set atomic correlation is discussed focusing on simple liquids, such as metallic liquids. Through the results of x-ray diffraction and simulation with classical potentials we show that the third peak of the pair-distribution function, which describes the MRO, shows a distinct change in temperature dependence at the glass transition, whereas the first peak, which represents the SRO, changes smoothly through the glass transition. The result suggests that the glass transition is induced by the freezing of the MRO rather than that of the SRO, implying a major role of the MRO on the viscosity of supercooled liquid.
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- Chae Woo Ryu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA.,Materials Sciences and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Ward DJ, Raghavan A, Tamtögl A, Jardine AP, Bahn E, Ellis J, Miret-Artès S, Allison W. Inter-adsorbate forces and coherent scattering in helium spin-echo experiments. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:7799-7805. [PMID: 33331836 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp04539j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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In studies of dynamical systems, helium atoms scatter coherently from an ensemble of adsorbates as they diffuse on the surface. The results give information on the co-operative behaviour of interacting adsorbates and thus include the effects of both adsorbate-substrate and adsorbate-adsorbate interactions. Here, we discuss a method to disentangle the effects of interactions between adsorbates from those with the substrate. The result gives an approximation to observations that would be obtained if the scattering was incoherent. Information from the experiment can therefore be used to distinguish more clearly between long-range inter-adsorbate forces and the short range effects arising from the local lattice potential and associated thermal excitations. The method is discussed in the context of a system with strong inter-adsorbate interactions, sodium atoms diffusing on a copper (111) surface.
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- David J Ward
- Cavendish Laboratory, J.J. Thomson Ave., Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK.
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Treffenstädt LL, Schmidt M. Universality in Driven and Equilibrium Hard Sphere Liquid Dynamics. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:058002. [PMID: 33605743 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.058002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2020] [Revised: 12/04/2020] [Accepted: 01/05/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We demonstrate that the time evolution of the van Hove dynamical pair correlation function is governed by adiabatic forces that arise from the free energy and by superadiabatic forces that are induced by the flow of the van Hove function. The superadiabatic forces consist of drag, viscous, and structural contributions, as occur in active Brownian particles, in liquids under shear and in lane forming mixtures. For hard sphere liquids, we present a power functional theory that predicts these universal force fields in quantitative agreement with our Brownian dynamics simulation results.
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- Lucas L Treffenstädt
- Theoretische Physik II, Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bayreuth, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Theoretische Physik II, Physikalisches Institut, Universität Bayreuth, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany
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Egami T, Shinohara Y. Correlated atomic dynamics in liquid seen in real space and time. J Chem Phys 2020; 153:180902. [PMID: 33187433 DOI: 10.1063/5.0024013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In liquids, the timescales for structure, diffusion, and phonon are all similar, of the order of a pico-second. This not only makes characterization of liquid dynamics difficult but also renders it highly questionable to describe liquids in these terms. In particular, the current definition of the structure of liquids by the instantaneous structure may need to be expanded because the liquid structure is inherently dynamic. Here, we advocate describing the liquid structure through the distinct-part of the Van Hove function, which can be determined by inelastic neutron and x-ray scattering measurements as well as by simulation. It depicts the dynamic correlation between atoms in space and time, starting with the instantaneous correlation function at t = 0. The observed Van Hove functions show that the atomic dynamics is strongly correlated in some liquids, such as water. The effect of atomic correlation on various transport properties of fluid, including viscosity and diffusivity, is discussed.
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- Takeshi Egami
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Luo P, Zhai Y, Senses E, Mamontov E, Xu G, Z Y, Faraone A. Influence of Kosmotrope and Chaotrope Salts on Water Structural Relaxation. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:8970-8975. [PMID: 33031702 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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The structural relaxation in water solutions of kosmotrope (structure maker) and chaotrope (structure breaker) salts, namely sodium chloride, potassium chloride, and cesium chloride, were studied through quasielastic neutron scattering measurements. We found that the collective dynamics relaxation time at the structure factor peak obtained using heavy water solutions shows a distinctively different behavior in the kosmotrope as opposed to the chaotrope solutions, increasing with the salt concentration in the former and decreasing in the latter. In both cases the trends are proportional to the concentration dependence of the relative viscosity of the solutions. These results indicate that kosmotropes and chaotropes influence the solution's viscosity by impacting in opposite ways the hydrogen bond network of water, strengthening it in one case and softening it in the other.
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- Peng Luo
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Koç University, Istanbul 34450, Turkey
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute for Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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Shinohara Y, Dmowski W, Iwashita T, Ishikawa D, Baron AQR, Egami T. Local self-motion of water through the Van Hove function. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:032604. [PMID: 33075912 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.032604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We show that the self-part of the Van Hove function-the correlation function describing the dynamics of a single molecule-of water can be determined through a high-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering experiment. The measurement of inelastic x-ray scattering up to 10Å^{-1} makes it possible to convert the inelastic x-ray scattering spectra into the Van Hove function, and its self-part is extracted from the short-range correlations. The diffusivity estimated from the short-range dynamics of water molecules is different from the long-range diffusivity measured by other methods. This approach using the experimentally determined self-part of the Van Hove function will be useful to the study of the local dynamics of atoms and molecules in liquids.
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- Yuya Shinohara
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, USA
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- Department of Integrated Science and Technology, Oita University, Dannoharu, Oita 870-1192, Japan
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- JASRI/SPring-8, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan.,Materials Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo, RIKEN, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Materials Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, Sayo, RIKEN, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA.,Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, USA.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Ghorai PK, Matyushov DV. Equilibrium Solvation, Electron-Transfer Reactions, and Stokes-Shift Dynamics in Ionic Liquids. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:3754-3769. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c01773] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Pradip Kr. Ghorai
- Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur 741246, India
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- Department of Physics and School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, PO Box 871504, Tempe, Arizona 85287, United States
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Ryu CW, Dmowski W, Egami T. Ideality of liquid structure: A case study for metallic alloy liquids. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:030601. [PMID: 32289960 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.030601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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It is difficult to characterize by experiment the structural features of liquids and glasses which lack long-range translational periodicity in the structure. Here, we suggest that the height and shape of the first peak of the structure function S(Q) carry significant information about the nature of the medium-range order and the coherence of density correlations. It is further proposed that they indicate how ideal the liquid structure is. Here, the ideal state is defined by long-range density correlations, not by structural coherence at the atomic level. The analysis is applied to the S(Q) of metallic alloy liquids determined by x-ray diffraction and simulation. The ideality index defined here may provide a common parameter to characterize structural coherence among various disparate groups of liquids and glasses.
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- Chae Woo Ryu
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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Ashcraft R, Wang Z, Abernathy DL, Quirinale DG, Egami T, Kelton KF. Experimental determination of the temperature-dependent Van Hove function in a Zr 80Pt 20 liquid. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:074506. [PMID: 32087649 DOI: 10.1063/1.5144256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Even though the viscosity is one of the most fundamental properties of liquids, the connection with the atomic structure of the liquid has proven elusive. By combining inelastic neutron scattering with the electrostatic levitation technique, the time-dependent pair-distribution function (i.e., the Van Hove function) has been determined for liquid Zr80Pt20. We show that the decay time of the first peak of the Van Hove function is directly related to the Maxwell relaxation time of the liquid, which is proportional to the shear viscosity. This result demonstrates that the local dynamics for increasing or decreasing the coordination number of local clusters by one determines the viscosity at high temperature, supporting earlier predictions from molecular dynamics simulations.
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- R Ashcraft
- Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Neutron Technologies Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 63130, USA
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Mokshin AV, Khusnutdinoff RM, Galimzyanov BN, Brazhkin VV. Extended short-range order determines the overall structure of liquid gallium. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:4122-4129. [DOI: 10.1039/c9cp05219d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Polyvalent metal melts (gallium, tin, bismuth, etc.) have microscopic structural features, which are detected by neutron and X-ray diffraction and which are absent in simple liquids.
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Shinohara Y, Matsumoto R, Thompson MW, Ryu CW, Dmowski W, Iwashita T, Ishikawa D, Baron AQR, Cummings PT, Egami T. Identifying Water-Anion Correlated Motion in Aqueous Solutions through Van Hove Functions. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:7119-7125. [PMID: 31693369 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Electrolyte solutions are ubiquitous in materials in daily use and in biological systems. However, the understanding of their molecular and ionic dynamics, particularly those of their correlated motions, are elusive despite extensive experimental, theoretical, and numerical studies. Here we report the real-space observations of the molecular/ionic-correlated dynamics of aqueous salt (NaCl, NaBr, and NaI) solutions using the Van Hove functions obtained by high-resolution inelastic X-ray scattering measurement and molecular dynamics simulation. Our results directly depict the distance-dependent dynamics of aqueous salt solutions on the picosecond time scale and identify the changes in the anion-water correlations. This study demonstrates the capability of the real-space Van Hove function analysis to describe the local correlated dynamics in aqueous salt solutions.
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- Yuya Shinohara
- Materials Science and Technology Division , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge , Tennessee 37831 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Vanderbilt University , Nashville , Tennessee 37235 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Vanderbilt University , Nashville , Tennessee 37235 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , University of Tennessee , Knoxville , Tennessee 37996 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , University of Tennessee , Knoxville , Tennessee 37996 , United States
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- Department of Integrated Science and Technology , Oita University, Dannoharu , Oita 870-1192 , Japan
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- JASRI/SPring-8 , Sayo , Hyogo 679-5198 , Japan
- Materials Dynamics Laboratory , RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN , Sayo , Hyogo 679-5148 , Japan
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- Materials Dynamics Laboratory , RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN , Sayo , Hyogo 679-5148 , Japan
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering , Vanderbilt University , Nashville , Tennessee 37235 , United States
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- Materials Science and Technology Division , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge , Tennessee 37831 , United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering , University of Tennessee , Knoxville , Tennessee 37996 , United States
- Department of Physics and Astronomy , University of Tennessee, Knoxville , Knoxville , Tennessee 37996 , United States
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Camisasca G, Galamba N, Wikfeldt KT, Pettersson LGM. Translational and rotational dynamics of high and low density TIP4P/2005 water. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:224507. [PMID: 31202216 DOI: 10.1063/1.5079956] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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We use molecular dynamics simulations using TIP4P/2005 to investigate the self- and distinct-van Hove functions for different local environments of water, classified using the local structure index as an order parameter. The orientational dynamics were studied through the calculation of the time-correlation functions of different-order Legendre polynomials in the OH-bond unit vector. We found that the translational and orientational dynamics are slower for molecules in a low-density local environment and correspondingly the mobility is enhanced upon increasing the local density, consistent with some previous works, but opposite to a recent study on the van Hove function. From the analysis of the distinct dynamics, we find that the second and fourth peaks of the radial distribution function, previously identified as low density-like arrangements, show long persistence in time. The analysis of the time-dependent interparticle distance between the central molecule and the first coordination shell shows that particle identity persists longer than distinct van Hove correlations. The motion of two first-nearest-neighbor molecules thus remains coupled even when this correlation function has been completely decayed. With respect to the orientational dynamics, we show that correlation functions of molecules in a low-density environment decay exponentially, while molecules in a local high-density environment exhibit bi-exponential decay, indicating that dynamic heterogeneity of water is associated with the heterogeneity among high-density and between high-density and low-density species. This bi-exponential behavior is associated with the existence of interstitial waters and the collapse of the second coordination sphere in high-density arrangements, but not with H-bond strength.
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- Gaia Camisasca
- Department of Physics, Stockholm University, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Biosystems and Integrative Sciences Institute, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, C8, Campo Grande, 1749-016 Lisbon, Portugal
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Lima TA, Li Z, Tyagi M, Ribeiro MCC, Z Y. Spatial and thermal signatures of α and β relaxations in glassy and glacial aliphatic ionic liquids. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:144506. [PMID: 30981243 DOI: 10.1063/1.5081684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The competition between Coulomb and van der Waals interactions brings forth unique dynamic features and broad applications to ionic liquids. Herein, we present a combined calorimetric, X-ray diffraction, incoherent elastic, and quasi-elastic neutron scattering study, over a wide temperature range (180-340 K), of the relaxational dynamics of the liquid, supercooled liquid, crystalline, glassy, and glacial states of two model ionic liquids: tributylmethylammonium (a good glass-former) and butyltrimethylammonium (a good crystal-former) cations and the bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide anion. In both systems, we observed two distinct relaxation processes. The Q-dependence of the respective relaxation time shows that the α-process is diffusive, while the β-process is modulated by the structure of the liquids.
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- Thamires A Lima
- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899-6102, USA
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- Laboratório de Espectroscopia Molecular, Departamento de Química Fundamental, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, 05513-970 São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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- Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
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In strongly disordered matter, such as liquids and glasses, atomic and magnetic excitations are heavily damped and partially localized by disorder. Thus, the conventional descriptions in terms of phonons and magnons are inadequate, and we have to consider spatially correlated atomic and spin dynamics in real-space and time. Experimentally this means that the usual representation of dynamics in terms of the dynamic structure factor, S(Q, E), where Q and E are the momentum and energy exchanges in scattering, is insufficient. We propose a real-space description in terms of the dynamic pair-density function (DyPDF) and the Van Hove function (VHF) as an alternative, and discuss recent results on superfluid 4He by inelastic neutron scattering and water by inelastic X-ray scattering. Today much of the objects of research in condensed-matter physics and materials science are highly complex materials. To characterize the dynamics of such complex materials, the real-space approach is likely to become the mainstream method of research.
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Shinohara Y, Dmowski W, Iwashita T, Wu B, Ishikawa D, Baron AQR, Egami T. Viscosity and real-space molecular motion of water: Observation with inelastic x-ray scattering. Phys Rev E 2018; 98:022604. [PMID: 30253607 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.98.022604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Even though viscosity is one of the fundamental properties of liquids, its microscopic origin is not fully understood. We determined the spatial and temporal correlation of molecular motions of water near room temperature and its temperature variation on a picosecond timescale and a subnanometer spatial scale, through high-resolution inelastic x-ray scattering measurement. The results, expressed in terms of the time-dependent pair correlation function called the Van Hove function, show that the timescale of the decay of the molecular correlation is directly related to the Maxwell relaxation time near room temperature, which is proportional to viscosity. This conclusion validates our earlier finding that the topological changes in atomic or molecular connectivity are the origin of viscosity in liquids.
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- Yuya Shinohara
- Shull-Wollan Center, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA
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- Shull-Wollan Center, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA
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- Department of Integrated Science and Technology, Oita University, Dannoharu, Oita 870-1192, Japan
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA
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- Materials Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan.,Research and Utilization Divition, Japan Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute (JASRI), Sayo, Hyogo 679-5198, Japan
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- Materials Dynamics Laboratory, RIKEN SPring-8 Center, RIKEN, Sayo, Hyogo 679-5148, Japan
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- Shull-Wollan Center, University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA.,Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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