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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 7, 期 7, 页码 1155-1160出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b00165
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- University College London
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) through its BES Geosciences program - U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Chemical Sciences, Geosciences and Biosciences Division
- EPSRC [EP/L000202]
The interface between transition-metal oxides and aqueous solutions plays an important role in biogeochemistry and photoelectrochemistry, but the atomistic structure is often elusive. Here we report on the surface geometry, solvation structure, and thermal fluctuations of the hydrogen bonding network at the hematite (001)-water interface as obtained from hybrid density functional theory-based molecular dynamics. We find that the protons terminating the surface form binary patterns by either pointing in-plane or out-of-plane. The patterns exist for about 1 ps and spontaneously interconvert in an ultrafast, solvent-driven process within 50 fs. This results in only about half of the terminating protons pointing toward the solvent and being acidic. The lifetimes of all hydrogen bonds formed at the interface are shorter than those in pure liquid water. The solvation structure reported herein forms the basis for a better fundamental understanding of electron transfer coupled to proton transfer reactions at this important interface.
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