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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 125, Issue 44, Pages 24663-24670Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c07327
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- DFG (German Science Foundation) [SFB-1316, SFB-1249, INST40/467-1 FUGG]
- BMBF (Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung) through the project GEP (Fundamentals of electrochemical interface) [13XP5023D]
- state of Baden-Wurttemberg through the bwHPC project
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The interface between liquid water and the Pt(111) metal surface was studied using reactive MD simulations in the ReaxFF framework. The formation of a distinct buckled adsorbate layer and subsequent wetting layers was tracked, revealing a significant reduction in entropy and density in the adsorbate layer. Introduction of an electric field prolonged the ordering effect of the metal surface into the liquid water.
The interface between liquid water and the Pt(111) metal surface is characterized structurally and thermodynamically via reactive MD simulations within the ReaxFF framework. The formation of a distinct buckled adsorbate layer and subsequent wetting layers is tracked via the course of the water's density and the distribution of the H2O molecules with increasing distance to the metal surface. Hereby, also the two-phase thermodynamics (2PT) method has been utilized for studying the course of entropy as well as the translational, rotational, and vibrational entropic contributions throughout the Pt(111)vertical bar H2O interface. A significant reduction of the entropy compared to the bulk value is observed in the adsorbate layer (S = 31.05 +/- 2.48 J/mol K) along with a density of 3.26 +/- 0.06 g/cm(3). The O-O interlayer distribution allows for direct tracing of the water ordering and a quantified comparison to the ideal hexagonal adlayer. While the adsorbate layer at the Pt surface shows the occurrence of hexagonal motifs, this near-order is already weakened in the wetting layers. Bulk behavior is reached at 15 angstrom distance from the Pt(111) metal. Introducing an electric field of 0.1 V/angstrom prolongs the ordering effect of the metal surface into the liquid water.
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