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Martelli F. Steady-like topology of the dynamical hydrogen bond network in supercooled water. PNAS NEXUS 2022; 1:pgac090. [PMID: 36741425 PMCID: PMC9896910 DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgac090] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/02/2022] [Accepted: 06/08/2022] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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We investigate the link between topology of the hydrogen bond network (HBN) and large-scale density fluctuations in water from ambient conditions to the glassy state. We observe a transition from a temperature-dependent topology at high temperatures, to a steady-like topology below the Widom temperature TW ∼ 220 K signaling the fragile-to-strong crossover and the maximum in structural fluctuations. As a consequence of the steady topology, the network suppresses large-scale density fluctuations much more efficiently than at higher temperatures. Below TW , the contribution of coordination defects of the kind A 2 D 1 (two acceptors and one donor) to the kinetics of the HBN becomes progressively more pronounced, suggesting that A 2 D 1 configurations may represent the main source of dynamical heterogeneities. Below the vitrification temperature, the freezing of rotational and translational degrees of freedom allow for an enhanced suppression of large-scale density fluctuations and the sample reaches the edges of nearly hyperuniformity. The formed network still hosts coordination defects, hence implying that nearly hyperuniformity goes beyond the classical continuous random network paradigm of tetrahedral networks and can emerge in scenarios much more complex than previously assumed. Our results unveil a hitherto undisclosed link between network topology and properties of water essential for better understanding water's rich and complex nature. Beyond implications for water, our findings pave the way to a better understanding of the physics of supercooled liquids and disordered hyperuniform networks at large.
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Muthachikavil AV, Kontogeorgis GM, Liang X, Lei Q, Peng B. Structural characteristics of low-density environments in liquid water. Phys Rev E 2022; 105:034604. [PMID: 35428046 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.105.034604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2021] [Accepted: 02/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The existence of two structural forms in liquid water has been a point of discussion for a long time. A phase transition between these two forms of liquid water has been proposed based on evidence from molecular simulations, and experiments have also been very recently able to track the proposed transition of the low-density liquid form to the high-density liquid form. We propose to use the average angle an oxygen atom makes with its neighbors to describe the structural environment of a water molecule. The distribution of this order parameter is observed to have two peaks with one peak at ∼109.5^{∘}, corresponding to the internal angle of a regular tetrahedron, indicating tetrahedral arrangement. The other peak corresponds to an environment with a tighter arrangement of neighboring molecules. The distribution of O-O-O angles is decomposed into two skewed distributions to estimate the fractions of the two liquid forms in water. A good similarity is observed between the temperature and pressure trends of fractions of locally favored tetrahedral structure (LFTS) form estimated using the new order parameter and the reports in the literature, over a range of temperatures and pressures. We also compare the structural environments indicated by different order parameters and find that the order parameter proposed in this paper captures the structure of first solvation shell of the LFTS accurately.
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- Aswin V Muthachikavil
- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Center for Energy Resources Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Center for Energy Resources Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Center for Energy Resources Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby 2800, Denmark
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- Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED), PetroChina, Beijing 100083, China
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- Research Institute of Petroleum Exploration and Development (RIPED), PetroChina, Beijing 100083, China
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DeFever RS, Matsumoto RA, Dowling AW, Cummings PT, Maginn EJ. MoSDeF Cassandra: A complete Python interface for the Cassandra Monte Carlo software. J Comput Chem 2021; 42:1321-1331. [PMID: 33931885 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26544] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2021] [Revised: 04/06/2021] [Accepted: 04/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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We introduce a new Python interface for the Cassandra Monte Carlo software, molecular simulation design framework (MoSDeF) Cassandra. MoSDeF Cassandra provides a simplified user interface, offers broader interoperability with other molecular simulation codes, enables the construction of programmatic and reproducible molecular simulation workflows, and builds the infrastructure necessary for high-throughput Monte Carlo studies. Many of the capabilities of MoSDeF Cassandra are enabled via tight integration with MoSDeF. We discuss the motivation and design of MoSDeF Cassandra and proceed to demonstrate both simple use-cases and more complex workflows, including adsorption in porous media and a combined molecular dynamics - Monte Carlo workflow for computing lateral diffusivity in graphene slit pores. The examples presented herein demonstrate how even relatively complex simulation workflows can be reduced to, at most, a few files of Python code that can be version-controlled and shared with other researchers. We believe this paradigm will enable more rapid research advances and represents the future of molecular simulations.
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- Ryan S DeFever
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
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Camisasca G, Pathak H, Wikfeldt KT, Pettersson LGM. Radial distribution functions of water: Models vs experiments. J Chem Phys 2019; 151:044502. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5100871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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- Gaia Camisasca
- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, SE-10609 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, SE-10609 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, SE-10609 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, SE-10609 Stockholm, Sweden
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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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Kimmel GA, Xu Y, Brumberg A, Petrik NG, Smith RS, Kay BD. Homogeneous ice nucleation rates and crystallization kinetics in transiently-heated, supercooled water films from 188 K to 230 K. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:204509. [PMID: 31153179 DOI: 10.1063/1.5100147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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The crystallization kinetics of transiently heated, nanoscale water films were investigated for 188 K < Tpulse < 230 K, where Tpulse is the maximum temperature obtained during a heat pulse. The water films, which had thicknesses ranging from approximately 15-30 nm, were adsorbed on a Pt(111) single crystal and heated with ∼10 ns laser pulses, which produced heating and cooling rates of ∼109-1010 K/s in the adsorbed water films. Because the ice growth rates have been measured independently, the ice nucleation rates could be determined by modeling the observed crystallization kinetics. The experiments show that the nucleation rate goes through a maximum at T = 216 K ± 4 K, and the rate at the maximum is 1029±1 m-3 s-1. The maximum nucleation rate reported here for flat, thin water films is consistent with recent measurements of the nucleation rate in nanometer-sized water drops at comparable temperatures. However, the nucleation rate drops rapidly at lower temperatures, which is different from the nearly temperature-independent rates observed for the nanometer-sized drops. At T ∼ 189 K, the nucleation rate for the current experiments is a factor of ∼104-5 smaller than the rate at the maximum. The nucleation rate also decreases for Tpulse > 220 K, but the transiently heated water films are not very sensitive to the smaller nucleation rates at higher temperatures. The crystallization kinetics are consistent with a "classical" nucleation and growth mechanism indicating that there is an energetic barrier for deeply supercooled water to convert to ice.
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- Greg A Kimmel
- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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- Physical Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, USA
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Pettersson LGM. A Two-State Picture of Water and the Funnel of Life. SPRINGER PROCEEDINGS IN PHYSICS 2019. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21755-6_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Hestand NJ, Skinner JL. Perspective: Crossing the Widom line in no man’s land: Experiments, simulations, and the location of the liquid-liquid critical point in supercooled water. J Chem Phys 2018; 149:140901. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5046687] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Nicholas J. Hestand
- Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Wellig S, Hamm P. Solvation Layer of Antifreeze Proteins Analyzed with a Markov State Model. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:11014-11022. [PMID: 29889528 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b04491] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Three structurally very different antifreeze proteins (AFPs) are studied, addressing the question as to what extent the hypothesized preordering-binding mechanism is still relevant in the second solvation layer of the protein and beyond. Assuming a two-state model of water, the solvation layers are analyzed with the help of molecular dynamics simulations together with a Markov state model, which investigates the local tedrahedrality of the water hydrogen-bond network around a given water molecule. It has been shown previously that this analysis can discriminate the high-entropy, high-density state of the liquid (HDL) from its more structured low-density state (LDL). All investigated proteins, regardless of whether they are an AFP or not, have a tendency to increase the amount of HDL in their second solvation layer. The ice binding site (IBS) of the antifreeze proteins counteracts that trend, with either a hole in the HDL layer or a true excess of LDL. The results correlate to a certain extent with recent experiments, which have observed ice-like vibrational (VSFG) spectra for the water atop the IBS of only a subset of antifreeze proteins. It is concluded that the preordering-binding mechanism indeed seems to play a role but is only part of the overall picture.
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- Sebastian Wellig
- Department of Chemistry , University of Zurich , 8057 Zurich , Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry , University of Zurich , 8057 Zurich , Switzerland
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Singraber A, Morawietz T, Behler J, Dellago C. Density anomaly of water at negative pressures from first principles. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2018; 30:254005. [PMID: 29762140 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aac4f4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Using molecular dynamics simulations based on ab initio trained high-dimensional neural network potentials, we study the equation of state of liquid water at negative pressures. From density isobars computed for various pressures down to p = -230 MPa we determine the line of density maxima for two potentials based on the BLYP and the RPBE functionals, respectively. In both cases, dispersion corrections are included to account for non-local long-range correlations that give rise to van der Waals forces. We have followed the density maximum down to negative pressures close to the spinodal instability. For both functionals, the temperature of maximum density increases with decreasing pressure under moderate stretching, but changes slope at [Formula: see text] MPa and [Formula: see text] MPa for BLYP and RPBE, respectively. Our calculations confirm qualitatively the retracing shape of the line of density maxima found for empirical water models, indicating that the spinodal line maintains a positive slope even at strongly negative pressures.
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- Andreas Singraber
- Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Espinosa JR, Navarro C, Sanz E, Valeriani C, Vega C. On the time required to freeze water. J Chem Phys 2018; 145:211922. [PMID: 28799362 DOI: 10.1063/1.4965427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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By using the seeding technique the nucleation rate for the formation of ice at room pressure will be estimated for the TIP4P/ICE model using longer runs and a smaller grid of temperatures than in the previous work. The growth rate of ice will be determined for TIP4P/ICE and for the mW model of water. Although TIP4P/ICE and mW have a similar melting point and melting enthalpy, they differ significantly in the dynamics of freezing. The nucleation rate of mW is lower than that of TIP4P/ICE due to its higher interfacial free energy. Experimental results for the nucleation rate of ice are between the predictions of these two models when obtained from the seeding technique, although closer to the predictions of TIP4P/ICE. The growth rate of ice for the mW model is four orders of magnitude larger than for TIP4P/ICE. Avrami's expression is used to estimate the crystallization time from the values of the nucleation and growth rates. For mW the minimum in the crystallization time is found at approximately 85 K below the melting point and its value is of about a few ns, in agreement with the results obtained from brute force simulations by Moore and Molinero. For the TIP4P/ICE the minimum is found at about 55 K below the melting point, but its value is about ten microseconds. This value is compatible with the minimum cooling rate required to avoid the formation of ice and obtaining a glass phase. The crossover from the nucleation controlled crystallization to the growth controlled crystallization will be discussed for systems of finite size. This crossover could explain the apparent discrepancy between the values of J obtained by different experimental groups for temperatures below 230 K and should be considered as an alternative hypothesis to the two previously suggested: internal pressure and/or surface freezing effects. A maximum in the compressibility was found for the TIP4P/ICE model in supercooled water. The relaxation time is much smaller than the crystallization time at the temperature at which this maximum occurs, so this maximum is a real thermodynamic feature of the model. At the temperature of minimum crystallization time, the crystallization time is larger than the relaxation time by just two orders of magnitude.
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- J R Espinosa
- Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain and Departamento de Fisica Aplicada I , Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain and Departamento de Fisica Aplicada I , Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain and Departamento de Fisica Aplicada I , Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain and Departamento de Fisica Aplicada I , Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento de Quimica Fisica, Facultad de Ciencias Quimicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain and Departamento de Fisica Aplicada I , Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Ni Y, Hestand NJ, Skinner JL. Communication: Diffusion constant in supercooled water as the Widom line is crossed in no man’s land. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:191102. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5029822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Yicun Ni
- Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Zhovtobriukh I, Besley NA, Fransson T, Nilsson A, Pettersson LGM. Relationship between x-ray emission and absorption spectroscopy and the local H-bond environment in water. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:144507. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5009457] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022] Open
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- Iurii Zhovtobriukh
- FYSIKUM, Stockholm University, Albanova University Center, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- School of Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG72RD, United Kingdom
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- Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025,
USA
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- FYSIKUM, Stockholm University, Albanova University Center, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- FYSIKUM, Stockholm University, Albanova University Center, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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Cipcigan F, Sokhan V, Martyna G, Crain J. Structure and hydrogen bonding at the limits of liquid water stability. Sci Rep 2018; 8:1718. [PMID: 29379039 PMCID: PMC5789020 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-18975-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2017] [Accepted: 12/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Liquid water exhibits unconventional behaviour across its wide range of stability - from its unusually high liquid-vapour critical point down to its melting point and below where it reaches a density maximum and exhibits negative thermal expansion allowing ice to float. Understanding the molecular underpinnings of these anomalies presents a challenge motivating the study of water for well over a century. Here we examine the molecular structure of liquid water across its range of stability, from mild supercooling to the negative pressure and high temperature regimes. We use a recently-developed, electronically-responsive model of water, constructed from gas-phase molecular properties and incorporating many-body, long-range interactions to all orders; as a result the model has been shown to have high transferability from ice to the supercritical regime. We report a link between the anomalous thermal expansion of water and the behaviour of its second coordination shell and an anomaly in hydrogen bonding, which persists throughout liquid water's range of stability - from the high temperature limit of liquid water to its supercooled regime.
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- Flaviu Cipcigan
- IBM Research UK, Hartree Centre, Daresbury, WA4 4AD, United Kingdom.
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- STFC Daresbury Laboratory, Daresbury, WA4 4AD, United Kingdom
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- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, 10598, USA
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- IBM Research UK, Hartree Centre, Daresbury, WA4 4AD, United Kingdom
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Evidence of low-density and high-density liquid phases and isochore end point for water confined to carbon nanotube. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2017; 114:4066-4071. [PMID: 28373562 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1701609114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Possible transition between two phases of supercooled liquid water, namely the low- and high-density liquid water, has been only predicted to occur below 230 K from molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. However, such a phase transition cannot be detected in the laboratory because of the so-called "no-man's land" under deeply supercooled condition, where only crystalline ices have been observed. Here, we show MD simulation evidence that, inside an isolated carbon nanotube (CNT) with a diameter of 1.25 nm, both low- and high-density liquid water states can be detected near ambient temperature and above ambient pressure. In the temperature-pressure phase diagram, the low- and high-density liquid water phases are separated by the hexagonal ice nanotube (hINT) phase, and the melting line terminates at the isochore end point near 292 K because of the retracting melting line from 292 to 278 K. Beyond the isochore end point (292 K), low- and high-density liquid becomes indistinguishable. When the pressure is increased from 10 to 600 MPa along the 280-K isotherm, we observe that water inside the 1.25-nm-diameter CNT can undergo low-density liquid to hINT to high-density liquid reentrant first-order transitions.
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González MA, Valeriani C, Caupin F, Abascal JLF. A comprehensive scenario of the thermodynamic anomalies of water using the TIP4P/2005 model. J Chem Phys 2017; 145:054505. [PMID: 27497563 DOI: 10.1063/1.4960185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The striking behavior of water has deserved it to be referred to as an "anomalous" liquid. The water anomalies are greatly amplified in metastable (supercooled and/or stretched) regions. This makes difficult a complete experimental description since, beyond certain limits, the metastable phase necessarily transforms into the stable one. Theoretical interpretation of the water anomalies could then be based on simulation results of well validated water models. But the analysis of the simulations has not yet reached a consensus. In particular, one of the most popular theoretical scenarios-involving the existence of a liquid-liquid critical point (LLCP)-is disputed by several authors. In this work, we propose to use a number of exact thermodynamic relations which may shed light on this issue. Interestingly, these relations may be tested in a region of the phase diagram which is outside the LLCP thus avoiding the problems associated to the coexistence region. The central property connected to other water anomalies is the locus of temperatures at which the density along isobars attain a maximum (TMD line) or a minimum (TmD). We have performed computer simulations to evaluate the TMD and TmD for a successful water model, namely, TIP4P/2005. We have also evaluated the vapor-liquid (VL) spinodal in the region of large negative pressures. The shape of these curves and their connection to the extrema of some response functions, in particular the isothermal compressibility and heat capacity at constant pressure, provides very useful information which may help to elucidate the validity of the theoretical proposals. In this way, we are able to present for the first time a comprehensive scenario of the thermodynamic water anomalies for TIP4P/2005 and their relation to the vapor-liquid spinodal. The overall picture shows a remarkable similarity with the corresponding one for the ST2 water model, for which the existence of a LLCP has been demonstrated in recent years. It also provides a hint as to where the long-sought for extrema in response functions might become accessible to experiments.
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- Miguel A González
- Departamento Química Física I, Facultad Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Departamento Química Física I, Facultad Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Institut Lumière Matière, UMR5306 Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1-CNRS, Université de Lyon, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France
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- Departamento Química Física I, Facultad Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Xu Y, Petrik NG, Smith RS, Kay BD, Kimmel GA. Growth rate of crystalline ice and the diffusivity of supercooled water from 126 to 262 K. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2016; 113:14921-14925. [PMID: 27956609 PMCID: PMC5206540 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1611395114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Understanding deeply supercooled water is key to unraveling many of water's anomalous properties. However, developing this understanding has proven difficult due to rapid and uncontrolled crystallization. Using a pulsed-laser-heating technique, we measure the growth rate of crystalline ice, G(T), for 180 K < T < 262 K, that is, deep within water's "no man's land" in ultrahigh-vacuum conditions. Isothermal measurements of G(T) are also made for 126 K ≤ T ≤ 151 K. The self-diffusion of supercooled liquid water, D(T), is obtained from G(T) using the Wilson-Frenkel model of crystal growth. For T > 237 K and P ∼ 10-8 Pa, G(T) and D(T) have super-Arrhenius ("fragile") temperature dependences, but both cross over to Arrhenius ("strong") behavior with a large activation energy in no man's land. The fact that G(T) and D(T) are smoothly varying rules out the hypothesis that liquid water's properties have a singularity at or near 228 K at ambient pressures. However, the results are consistent with a previous prediction for D(T) that assumed no thermodynamic transitions occur in no man's land.
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- Yuntao Xu
- Chemical Physics & Analysis, Physical Sciences Division, Physical & Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352
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- Chemical Physics & Analysis, Physical Sciences Division, Physical & Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352
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- Chemical Physics & Analysis, Physical Sciences Division, Physical & Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352
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- Chemical Physics & Analysis, Physical Sciences Division, Physical & Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352
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- Chemical Physics & Analysis, Physical Sciences Division, Physical & Computational Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352
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- Peter Hamm
- Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Pathak H, Palmer JC, Schlesinger D, Wikfeldt KT, Sellberg JA, Pettersson LGM, Nilsson A. The structural validity of various thermodynamical models of supercooled water. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:134507. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4963913] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- H. Pathak
- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204-4004, USA
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Biomedical and X-Ray Physics, Department of Applied Physics, AlbaNova University Center, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, AlbaNova University Center, Stockholm University, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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Palmer JC, Martelli F, Liu Y, Car R, Panagiotopoulos AZ, Debenedetti PG. Palmer et al. reply. Nature 2016; 531:E2-3. [DOI: 10.1038/nature16540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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