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6th Workshop in Electron Volt Neutron Spectroscopy: Frontiers and Horizons
The Quantum Mechanics of Nano-Confined Water: New Cooperative Effects Revealed with Neutron and X-Ray Compton Scattering
Reiter, G.F.^1 ; Deb, Aniruddha^2
Physics Department, University of Houston, Calhoun Houston
TX
77204-5505, United States^1
Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
MI
48109, United States^2
关键词: Co-operative effects;    Covalently bonded;    Electron distributions;    Interacting molecules;    Large deviations;    Momentum distributions;    Neutron Compton scattering;    Valence electron;   
Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/571/1/012001/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/571/1/012001
来源: IOP
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【 摘 要 】

Neutron Compton scattering(NCS) measurements of the momentum distribution of light ions using the Vesuvio instrument at ISIS provide a sensitive local probe of the environment of those ions. NCS measurements of the proton momentum distribution in bulk water show only small deviations from the usual picture of water as a collection of molecules, with the protons covalently bonded to an oxygen and interacting weakly, primarily electrostatically, with nearby molecules. However, a series of measurements of the proton momentum distribution in carbon nanotubes, xerogel, and Nafion show that the proton delocalizes over distances of 0.2-0.3Å when water is confined on the scale of 20Å. This delocalization must be the result of changes in the Born-Oppenheimer surface for the protons, which would imply that there are large deviations in the electron distribution from that of a collection of weakly interacting molecules. This has been observed at Spring-8 using x-ray Compton scattering. The observed deviation in the valence electron momentum distribution from that of bulk water is more than an order of magnitude larger than the change observed in bulk water as the water is heated from just above melting to just below boiling. We conclude that the protons and electrons in nano-confined water are in a qualitatively different ground state from that of bulk water. Since the properties of this state persist at room temperature, and the confinement distance necessary to observe it is comparable to the distance between the elements of biological cells, this state presumably plays a role in the functioning of those cells.

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