Single particle slow dynamics of confined water

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2000-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0003027v1

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. vol. 2, p. 1607 (2000)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

7 pages with one table and 8 figures; revTeX style. Based on an invited talk presented at the International Bunsed Discussion

Scientific paper

10.1039/a909268d

Molecular dynamics simulations of SPC/E water confined in a Silica pore are presented. The simulations have been performed at different hydration levels and temperatures to study the single-particle dynamics. Due to the confinement and to the presence of a hydrophilic surface, the dynamic behaviour of the liquid appears to be strongly dependent on the hydration level. On lowering temperature and/or hydration level the intermediate scattering function displays a double-step relaxation behaviour whose long time tail is strongly non-exponential. At higher hydrations two quite distinct subsets of water molecules are detectable. Those belonging to the first two layers close to the substrate suffer a severe slowing down already at ambient temperature. While the behaviour of the remaining ones is more resemblant to that of supercooled bulk SPC/E water. At lower hydrations and/or temperatures the onset of a slow dynamics due to the cage effect and a scenario typical of supercooled liquids approaching the kinetic glass transition is observed. Moreover, for low hydrations and/or temperatures, the intermediate scattering function clearly displays an overshoot, which can be assigned to the so called ``Boson Peak''.

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