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1Department of Biomedical Engineering, I-SHOU University, Kaohsiung, 840, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Abstract:
Gauss's law or Poisson's equation is conventionally used to calculate solvation free energy. However, the near-solute dielectric polarization from Gauss's law or Poisson's equation differs from that obtained from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. To mimic the near-solute dielectric polarization from MD simulations, the first-shell water was treated as two layers of surface charges, the densities of which are proportional to the electric field at the solvent molecule that is modeled as a hard sphere. The intermediate water was treated as a bulk solvent. An equation describing the solvation free energy of ions using this solvent scheme was derived using the TIP3P water model.
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