Closest-Packing Water Monolayer Stably Intercalated in Phyllosilicate Minerals under High Pressure

The directional hydrogen-bond (HB) network and nondirectional van der Waals (vdW) interactions make up the specificity of water. Directional HBs could construct an ice-like monolayer in hydrophobic confinement even in the ambient regime. Here, we report a water monolayer dominated by vdW interaction...

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Veröffentlicht in:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1992. - 36(2020), 2 vom: 21. Jan., Seite 618-627
1. Verfasser: Chen, Meng (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Zhou, Huijun, Zhu, Runliang, Lu, Xiancai, He, Hongping
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2020
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
Schlagworte:Journal Article
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Zusammenfassung:The directional hydrogen-bond (HB) network and nondirectional van der Waals (vdW) interactions make up the specificity of water. Directional HBs could construct an ice-like monolayer in hydrophobic confinement even in the ambient regime. Here, we report a water monolayer dominated by vdW interactions confined in a phyllosilicate interlayer under high pressure. Surprisingly, it was in a thermodynamically stable state coupled with bulk water at the same pressure (P) and temperature (T), as revealed by the thermodynamic integration approach on the basis of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Both classical and ab initio MD simulations showed water O atoms were stably trapped and exhibited an ordered hexagonal closest-packing arrangement, but OH bonds of water reoriented frequently and exhibited a specific two-stage reorientation relaxation. Strikingly, hydration in the interlayer under high pressure had no relevance with surface hydrophilicity rationalized by the HB forming ability, which, however, determines wetting in the ambient regime. Intercalated water molecules were trapped by vdW interactions, which shaped the closest-packing arrangement and made hydration energetically available. The high pressure-volume term largely drives hydration, as it compensates the entropy penalty which is restricted by a relatively lower temperature. This vdW water monolayer should be ubiquitous in the high pressure but low-temperature regime
Beschreibung:Date Revised 04.03.2020
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE
ISSN:1520-5827
DOI:10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03394