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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 122, Issue 38, Pages 8908-8920Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b05430
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- National Science Foundation [CBS-1604504]
- PSC-CUNY Award - Professional Staff Congress
- PSC-CUNY Award - City University of New York
- City University of New York High Performance Computing Center under NSF [CNS-0855217, CNS-0958379, ACI-1126113]
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We perform molecular dynamics simulations to study the effects of temperature on the water-mediated interactions between nanoscale apolar solutes. Specifically, we calculate the potential of mean force (PMF) between two graphene plates immersed in water at 240 <= T <= 400 K and P = 0.1 MPa. These are thermodynamic conditions relevant to cooling- and heating-induced protein denaturation. It is found that both cooling and heating tend to suppress the attraction, and ultimate collapse, of the graphene plates. However, the underlying role played by water upon heating and cooling is different. Isobaric heating reduces the strength and range of the interactions between the plates. Instead, isobaric cooling stabilizes the plates separations that can accommodate an integer number of water layers between the graphene plates. In particular, the energy barriers separating these plate separations increase linearly with 1/T. We also explore the sensitivity of the plates PMF to the water model employed. In the case of the TIP4P/2005 model, water confined between the plates crystallizes into a defective bilayer ice at low temperatures, whereas in the case of the SPC/E model, water remains in the liquid state at same thermodynamic conditions. The effects of varying water-graphene interactions on the plates PMF are also studied.
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