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Probing the Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Published on: May 27, 2018
Effect of boundary conditions on the structure and dynamics of nanoscale confined water
Jacob Goldsmith1, Craig C Martens
1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California 92697-2025, USA.
Abstract:
In this paper, we investigate the effects of boundary structure on the properties of water in nanometer scale environments. We use molecular dynamic simulations to study water enclosed in model nanocavities with rigid boundaries of ice I(h) structure and compare its behavior to that of water in cavities with smooth structureless boundaries. We show the dependence of quantities such as velocity autocorrelation function and hydrogen-bond lifetimes on the size and surface characteristics of the cavity. The boundary structure greatly influences the structure and dynamics of the water. In the smallest systems considered, with dimensions of 3-8 A, the dynamics are slowed significantly, and the velocity autocorrelation function resembles that of solid ice.
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