Dynamics of 2D Monolayer Confined Water in Hydrophobic and Charged Environments

Details Dynamics of 2D Monolayer Confined Water in Hydrophobic and Charged Environments Dynamics of 2D Monolayer Confined Water in Hydrophobic and Charged Environments

2010-05-13

arxiv.org/abs/1005.2380v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

16 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

Using molecular dynamics simulations we study the dynamics of a water-like TIP5P model of water in hydrophilic and hydrophobic confinement. We find that in case of extreme nanocofinement such that there is only one molecular layer of water between the confinement surface, the dynamics of water remains Arrhenius with a very high activation energy up to high temperatures. In case of polar (hydrophilic) confinement, The intermediate time scale dynamics of water is drastically modified presumably due to the transient coupling of dipoles with the effective electric field due to the surface charges. Specifically, we find that in the presence of the polar surfaces, the dynamics of monolayer water shows anomalous region -- namely the lateral mean square displacement displays a distinct superdiffusive intermediate time scale behavior in addition to ballistic and diffusive regimes. We explain these finding by proposing a simple model. Furthermore, we find that confinement and the surface polarity changes the vibrational density of states specifically we see the enhancement of the low frequency collective modes in confinement compared to bulk water. Finally, we find that the length scale of translational-orientational coupling increases with the strength of the polarity of the surface.

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