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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Volume 13, Issue 11, Pages 5610-5623Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00612
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- European Union
- Collaborative Research Center 969 (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)
- University of Konstanz
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The structure and dynamics of water at gold surfaces are important for a variety of applications, including lab on a chip and electrowetting. Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are frequently used to investigate systems with water-gold interfaces, such as biomacromolecules in gold nanoparticle dispersions, but the accuracy of the simulations depends on the suitability of the force field. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations of a water molecule on gold were used as a benchmark to assess force field accuracy. It was found that Lennard-Jones potentials did not reproduce the DFT water-gold configurational energy landscape, whereas the softer Morse and Buckingham potentials allowed for a more accurate representation. MD simulations with different force fields exhibited rather different structural and dynamic properties of water on a gold surface. This emphasizes the need for experimental data and further effort on the validation of a realistic force field for water-gold interactions.
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