Different Melting Behavior in Pentane and Heptane Monolayers on Graphite; Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Details Different Melting Behavior in Pentane and Heptane Monolayers on Graphite; Molecular Dynamics Simulations Different Melting Behavior in Pentane and Heptane Monolayers on Graphite; Molecular Dynamics Simulations

2005-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0506273v2

Physical Review B, 73(4), 045415 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.73.045415

Molecular dynamics simulations are utilized to study the melting transition in pentane (C5H12) and heptane (C7H16), physisorbed onto the basal plane of graphite at near-monolayer coverages. Through use of the newest, optimized version of the anisotropic united-atom model (AUA4) to simulate both systems at two separate coverages, this study provides evidence that the melting transition for pentane and heptane monolayers are significantly different. Specifically, this study proposes a very rapid transition from the solid crystalline rectangular-centered (RC) phase to a fluid phase in pentane monolayers, whereas heptane monolayers exhibit a slower transition that involves a more gradual loss of RC order in the solid-fluid phase transition. Through a study of the melting behavior, encompassing variations where the formation of gauche defects in the alkyl chains are eliminated, this study proposes that this gradual melting behavior for heptane monolayers is a result of less orientational mobility of the heptane molecules in the solid RC phase, as compared to the pentane molecules. This idea is supported through a study of a nonane monolayer, which gives the gradual melting signature that heptane monolayers also seem to indicate. The results of this work are compared to previous experiment over pentane and heptane monolayers, and are found to be in good agreement.

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