Model atomistic protrusions favouring the ordering and retention of water

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (30) ◽  
pp. 15856-15865
Author(s):  
Prithvi Raj Pandey ◽  
Sudip Roy

The ordering of water molecules near model linear atomistic protrusions is studied using classical molecular dynamics simulations.

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (20) ◽  
pp. 13944-13951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Augusto Franco Pinheiro Moreira ◽  
Roberto Gomes de Aguiar Veiga ◽  
Ingrid de Almeida Ribeiro ◽  
Rodrigo Freitas ◽  
Julian Helfferich ◽  
...  

First-principles and classical molecular dynamics simulations show that diffusion of water molecules at pre-melted grain boundaries in ice is glassy-like, showing sub-diffusive behavior.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 2164-2174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Presti ◽  
Alfonso Pedone ◽  
Giordano Mancini ◽  
Celia Duce ◽  
Maria Rosaria Tiné ◽  
...  

Density functional theory calculations and classical molecular dynamics simulations have been used to investigate the structure and dynamics of water molecules on kaolinite surfaces and confined in the interlayer of a halloysite model of nanometric dimension.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Miraslau L. Barabash ◽  
William A. T. Gibby ◽  
Carlo Guardiani ◽  
Alex Smolyanitsky ◽  
Dmitry G. Luchinsky ◽  
...  

AbstractIn order to permeate a nanopore, an ion must overcome a dehydration energy barrier caused by the redistribution of surrounding water molecules. The redistribution is inhomogeneous, anisotropic and strongly position-dependent, resulting in complex patterns that are routinely observed in molecular dynamics simulations. Here, we study the physical origin of these patterns and of how they can be predicted and controlled. We introduce an analytic model able to predict the patterns in a graphene nanopore in terms of experimentally accessible radial distribution functions, giving results that agree well with molecular dynamics simulations. The patterns are attributable to a complex interplay of ionic hydration shells with water layers adjacent to the graphene membrane and with the hydration cloud of the nanopore rim atoms, and we discuss ways of controlling them. Our findings pave the way to designing required transport properties into nanoionic devices by optimising the structure of the hydration patterns.


2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (39) ◽  
pp. 21135-21143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard I. Ainsworth ◽  
Jamieson K. Christie ◽  
Nora H. de Leeuw

First-principles and classical molecular dynamics simulations have been carried out on undoped and silver-doped phosphate-based glasses with 50 mol% P2O5, 0–20 mol% Ag2O, and varying amounts of Na2O and CaO.


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