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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 18, Pages 5530-5535Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01835
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- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
- Office of Science of the DOE
- LabEX ENS-ICFP [ANR-10-LABX-0010, ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL]
- KAUST Office of Sponsored Research Competitive Research Grant [OSR-CRG2017-3415]
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Nuclear quantum effects (NQEs) in water arise due to delocalization, zero-point energy (ZPE), and quantum tunneling of protons. Whereas quantum tunneling is significant only at low temperatures, proton delocalization and ZPE influence the properties of water at normal temperature and pressure (NTP), giving rise to isotope effects. However, the consequences of NQEs for interfaces of water with hydrophobic media, such as perfluorocarbons, have remained largely unexplored. Here, we reveal the existence and signature of NQEs modulating hydrophobic surface forces at NTP. Our experiments demonstrate that the attractive hydrophobic forces between molecularly smooth and rigid perfluorinated surfaces in nanoconfinement are approximate to 10% higher in H2O than in D2O, even though the contact angles of H2O and D2O on these surfaces are indistinguishable. Our molecular dynamics simulations show that the underlying cause of the difference includes the destabilizing effect of ZPE on the librational motions of interfacial H2O, which experiences larger quantum effects than D2O.
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