Structural and phase properties of tetracosane (C24H50) monolayers adsorbed on graphite : an explicit hydrogen molecular dynamics study

We discuss molecular dynamics (MD) computer simulations of a tetracosane (C24H50) monolayer physisorbed onto the basal plane of graphite. The adlayer molecules are simulated with explicit hydrogens, and the graphite substrate is represented as an all-atom structure having six graphene layers. The te...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1999. - 24(2008), 21 vom: 04. Nov., Seite 12392-7
1. Verfasser: Firlej, L (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Kuchta, B, Roth, M W, Connolly, M J, Wexler, Carlos
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2008
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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520 |a We discuss molecular dynamics (MD) computer simulations of a tetracosane (C24H50) monolayer physisorbed onto the basal plane of graphite. The adlayer molecules are simulated with explicit hydrogens, and the graphite substrate is represented as an all-atom structure having six graphene layers. The tetracosane dynamics modeled in the fully atomistic manner agree well with experiment. The low-temperature ordered solid organizes into a rectangularly centered structure that is not commensurate with underlying graphite. Above T=200 K, as the molecules start to lose their translational and orientational order via gauche defect formation a weak smectic mesophase (observed experimentally but never reproduced in united atom (UA) simulations) appears. The phase behavior of the adsorbed layer is critically sensitive to the way the electrostatic interactions are included in the model. If the electrostatic charges are set to zero (as for a UA force field), then the melting temperature increases by approximately 70 K with respect to the experimental value. When the nonbonded 1-4 interaction is not scaled, the melting temperature decreases by approximately 90 K. If the scaling factor is set to 0.5, then melting occurs at T=350 K, in very good agreement with experimental data 
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