Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Water between Metal Walls under an Electric Field: Dielectric Response and Dynamics after Field Reversal

The Journal of Physical Chemistry. B
Kyohei Takae, Akira Onuki

Abstract

We study water between parallel metal walls under an applied electric field accounting for the image effect at T = 298 K. The electric field due to the surface charges serves to attract and orient nearby water molecules, whereas it tends to a constant determined by the mean surface charge density away from the walls. We find Stern boundary layers with thicknesses of about 5 Å and a homogeneously polarized bulk region. The molecules in the layers respond more sensitively to the applied field than the molecules in the bulk. As a result, the potential drop in the layers is larger than that in the bulk unless the cell length exceeds 10 nm. We also examine the hydrogen bonds, which tend to make small angles with respect to the walls in the layers even without an applied field. The average local field considerably deviates from the classical Lorentz field and the local field fluctuations are very large in the bulk. If we suppose a nanometer-sized sphere around each molecule, the local field contribution from its exterior is nearly equal to that from the continuum electrostatics and that from its interior yields the deviation from the classical Lorentz field. As a nonequilibrium problem, we investigate the dynamics after a reversal of...Continue Reading

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Oct 24, 2015·The Journal of Chemical Physics·Kyohei Takae, Akira Onuki
Aug 4, 2015·The Journal of Chemical Physics·Mohammadhasan Dinpajooh, Dmitry V Matyushov
May 2, 2016·The Journal of Chemical Physics·Bobo ShiSherwin J Singer
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Jun 14, 2017·Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : PCCP·Tatsuya JoutsukaAkihiro Morita
Feb 22, 2017·Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter : an Institute of Physics Journal·Kyohei Takae, Akira Onuki
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