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Title: Nanoconfined Fluids: Uniqueness of Water Compared to Other Liquids
Author: Leoni, Fabio
Calero Borrallo, Carles
Franzese, Giancarlo
Keywords: Difusió
Grafè
Fluids
Diffusion
Graphene
Fluids
Issue Date: 28-Dec-2021
Publisher: American Chemical Society
Abstract: Nanoconfinement can drastically change the behavior of liquids, puzzling us with counterintuitive properties. It is relevant in applications, including decontamination and crystallization control. However, it still lacks a systematic analysis for fluids with different bulk properties. Here we address this gap. We compare, by molecular dynamics simulations, three different liquids in a graphene slit pore: (1) A simple fluid, such as argon, described by a Lennard-Jones potential; (2) an anomalous fluid, such as a liquid metal, modeled with an isotropic core-softened potential; and (3) water, the prototypical anomalous liquid, with directional HBs. We study how the slit-pore width affects the structure, thermodynamics, and dynamics of the fluids. All the fluids show similar oscillating properties by changing the pore size. However, their free-energy minima are quite different in nature: (i) are energy-driven for the simple liquid; (ii) are entropy-driven for the isotropic core-softened potential; and (iii) have a changing nature for water. Indeed, for water, the monolayer minimum is entropy driven, at variance with the simple liquid, while the bilayer minimum is energy driven, at variance with the other anomalous liquid. Also, water has a large increase in diffusion for subnm slit pores, becoming faster than bulk. Instead, the other two fluids have diffusion oscillations much smaller than water, slowing down for decreasing slit-pore width. Our results, clarifying that water confined at the subnm scale behaves differently from other (simple or anomalous) fluids under similar confinement, are possibly relevant in nanopores applications, for example, in water purification from contaminants.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c07381
It is part of: ACS Nano, 2021, vol. 15, num. 12, p. 19864-19876
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/186844
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.1c07381
ISSN: 1936-0851
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