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Drużbicki K, Gaboardi M, Fernandez-Alonso F. Dynamics & Spectroscopy with Neutrons-Recent Developments & Emerging Opportunities. Polymers (Basel) 2021; 13:1440. [PMID: 33947108 PMCID: PMC8125526 DOI: 10.3390/polym13091440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2021] [Accepted: 04/27/2021] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
Abstract
This work provides an up-to-date overview of recent developments in neutron spectroscopic techniques and associated computational tools to interrogate the structural properties and dynamical behavior of complex and disordered materials, with a focus on those of a soft and polymeric nature. These have and continue to pave the way for new scientific opportunities simply thought unthinkable not so long ago, and have particularly benefited from advances in high-resolution, broadband techniques spanning energy transfers from the meV to the eV. Topical areas include the identification and robust assignment of low-energy modes underpinning functionality in soft solids and supramolecular frameworks, or the quantification in the laboratory of hitherto unexplored nuclear quantum effects dictating thermodynamic properties. In addition to novel classes of materials, we also discuss recent discoveries around water and its phase diagram, which continue to surprise us. All throughout, emphasis is placed on linking these ongoing and exciting experimental and computational developments to specific scientific questions in the context of the discovery of new materials for sustainable technologies.
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- Kacper Drużbicki
- Materials Physics Center, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain;
- Polish Academy of Sciences, Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Sienkiewicza 112, 90-363 Lodz, Poland
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- Elettra—Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., S.S. 14 km 163.5 in Area Science Park, 34149 Trieste, Italy;
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- Materials Physics Center, CSIC-UPV/EHU, Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 5, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain;
- Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), Paseo Manuel de Lardizabal 4, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
- IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza Euskadi 5, 48009 Bilbao, Spain
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Andreani C, Romanelli G, Parmentier A, Senesi R, Kolesnikov AI, Ko HY, Calegari Andrade MF, Car R. Hydrogen Dynamics in Supercritical Water Probed by Neutron Scattering and Computer Simulations. J Phys Chem Lett 2020; 11:9461-9467. [PMID: 33108193 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.0c02547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
Abstract
In this work, an investigation of supercritical water is presented combining inelastic and deep inelastic neutron scattering experiments and molecular dynamics simulations based on a machine-learned potential of ab initio quality. The local hydrogen dynamics is investigated at 250 bar and in the temperature range of 553-823 K, covering the evolution from subcritical liquid to supercritical gas-like water. The evolution of libration, bending, and stretching motions in the vibrational density of states is studied, analyzing the spectral features by a mode decomposition. Moreover, the hydrogen nuclear momentum distribution is measured, and its anisotropy is probed experimentally. It is shown that hydrogen bonds survive up to the higher temperatures investigated, and we discuss our results in the framework of the coupling between intramolecular modes and intermolecular librations. Results show that the local potential affecting hydrogen becomes less anisotropic within the molecular plane in the supercritical phase, and we attribute this result to the presence of more distorted hydrogen bonds.
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- Carla Andreani
- Dipartimento di Fisica and NAST Centre, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
- CNR-IPCF, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici del CNR di Messina, Viale F. Stagno dAlcontres 37, 98158 Messina, Italy
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- ISIS Facility, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire OX11 0QX, United Kingdom
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- Dipartimento di Fisica and NAST Centre, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
- CNR-IPCF, Istituto per i Processi Chimico-Fisici del CNR di Messina, Viale F. Stagno dAlcontres 37, 98158 Messina, Italy
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Ceriotti M, Fang W, Kusalik PG, McKenzie RH, Michaelides A, Morales MA, Markland TE. Nuclear Quantum Effects in Water and Aqueous Systems: Experiment, Theory, and Current Challenges. Chem Rev 2016; 116:7529-50. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 339] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Michele Ceriotti
- Laboratory
of Computational Science and Modeling, Institute of Materials, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Thomas
Young Centre, London Centre for Nanotechnology and Department of Physics
and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- School
of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072 Queensland Australia
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- Thomas
Young Centre, London Centre for Nanotechnology and Department of Physics
and Astronomy, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom
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- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Stanford University, 333 Campus Drive, Stanford, California 94305, United States
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Otomo T, Iwase H, Kameda Y, Matubayasi N, Itoh K, Ikeda S, Nakahara M. Partial Pair Correlation Functions of Low-Density Supercritical Water Determined by Neutron Diffraction with the H/D Isotopic Substitution Method. J Phys Chem B 2008; 112:4687-93. [DOI: 10.1021/jp711434n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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- Toshiya Otomo
- Institute of Material Structure Science, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan, Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan, Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Kumatori, Osaka 590-0494, Japan, and Advanced Science Research Center, JAEA, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Institute of Material Structure Science, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan, Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan, Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Kumatori, Osaka 590-0494, Japan, and Advanced Science Research Center, JAEA, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Institute of Material Structure Science, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan, Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan, Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Kumatori, Osaka 590-0494, Japan, and Advanced Science Research Center, JAEA, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Institute of Material Structure Science, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan, Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan, Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Kumatori, Osaka 590-0494, Japan, and Advanced Science Research Center, JAEA, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Institute of Material Structure Science, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan, Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan, Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Kumatori, Osaka 590-0494, Japan, and Advanced Science Research Center, JAEA, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Institute of Material Structure Science, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan, Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan, Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Kumatori, Osaka 590-0494, Japan, and Advanced Science Research Center, JAEA, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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- Institute of Material Structure Science, KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801, Japan, Department of Material and Biological Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Yamagata University, Yamagata, Yamagata 990-8560, Japan, Institute of Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan, Research Reactor Institute, Kyoto University, Kumatori, Osaka 590-0494, Japan, and Advanced Science Research Center, JAEA, Tokai, Ibaraki 319-1195, Japan
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