Hydration Simulations of a Carbon Nanotube, immersed in Water, according to the 3-Attractor Water Model

Sensors

Yuri Bushuev¹  Svetlana Davletbaeva² 

[1] Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, pr. F. Engel'sa,7, Ivanovo, Russia, 153460;Institute of Chemistry of Solutions RAS, Akademicheskaya, 1, Ivanovo, Russia, 153045

关键词: water;    water structure;    carbon nanotube;    hydration;    H-bond;    Monte-Carlo simulation;    intermolecular interactions;    water potential;   

DOI  :  10.3390/s5040139

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

MC simulations of a set of zigzag ((9,0)-(14,0)) and armchair ((6,6)-(10,10)) carbon nanotubes immersed in water have been carried out in NpT-ensemble (512 water molecules, p=1 bar, T=298 K). Intermolecular interaction were described by BMW potential according to which, besides the well known linear water dimer bifurcated and inverted water dimers are metastable. In all cases, it was found that there are large periodic fluctuations of water occupancy inside the nanotubes. Decrease in the size of the nanotube diameter leads to a significant destruction of H-bond network, and to a bifurcated dimer population increase. Inverted dimer concentration relationship with the nanotube diameter is more complicated. Population maximum for inverted dimers occurs for diameters of 10-11 Å. Water features different intermolecular structures not only inside carbon nanotubes but also in the outer first hydration shells. The amount of bifurcated and inverted dimers is significantly more important in the first hydration shell than in bulk water.

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