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  • Materials Science
  • Physical Chemistry

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  • Deep eutectic solvents (DES) like ethaline (choline chloride/ethylene glycol) are promising sustainable alternatives.
  • Accurate computational models are crucial for understanding and utilizing DES properties.
  • Existing force field models (FFMs) for ethaline require refinement for precise property prediction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate refined force field models for ethaline.
  • To improve the prediction accuracy of physical and chemical properties of ethaline.
  • To enhance the simulation of transport and structural properties of ethaline.

Main Methods:

  • Combined literature parameters for choline cation, chloride anion, and ethylene glycol to create FFMs.
  • Validated FFMs using physical properties: density, expansion coefficient, enthalpy of vaporization, self-diffusion, compressibility, surface tension, and viscosity.
  • Refined FFMs by incorporating polarization effects via charge rescaling based on ab initio molecular dynamics (MD) simulations.

Main Results:

  • Refined FFMs, incorporating polarization, significantly improved the prediction of ethaline's physical and chemical properties.
  • Classical all-atom MD simulations using refined FFMs showed excellent agreement with experimental data across various temperatures (298.15–373.15 K).
  • Achieved a 10% improvement in simulated transport properties (self-diffusion coefficients) compared to previous models and accessed compressibility, surface tension, and viscosity for the first time via MD.

Conclusions:

  • The developed and refined FFMs provide accurate predictions for ethaline's dynamic and structural properties.
  • The inclusion of polarization effects is critical for enhancing the predictive power of FFMs for DES.
  • These improved models enable more reliable computational studies of ethaline and similar deep eutectic systems.