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Probing the Structure and Dynamics of Interfacial Water with Scanning Tunneling Microscopy and Spectroscopy
Published on: May 27, 2018
Hydrogen bonded networks in supercritical water
Qiang Sun1, Qianqian Wang, Dongye Ding
1Key Laboratory of Orogenic Belts and Crustal Evolution, Ministry of Education, The School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Peking University , Beijing 100871, China.
Abstract:
In this study, the structure of supercritical water (SCW) is investigated by Raman spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulations. It was found that the hydrogen bonding in water is closely related to temperature and pressure (or water density). According to the Raman spectroscopic study of SCW, the existence of tetrahedral hydrogen bonds in SCW is also affected by the density of SCW. In addition, for SCW with critical density (0.322 g cm(-3)), we suggest that the tetrahedral hydrogen bonding is absent at water critical point (647 K and 22.1 MPa) based on Raman evidence. From the dependence of νmax of the Raman OH stretching bands on temperature and pressure, the structure of SCW can be divided into three-dimensional and chain (or string) hydrogen bonded networks, which correspond to liquid- and gas-like phases, respectively.
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