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Professor Fernando Bresme

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Chemistry

Professor of Chemical Physics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 5886f.bresme Website

 
 
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Assistant

 

Miss Ravinder Dhaliwal +44 (0)20 7594 5717

 
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Location

 

207CMolecular Sciences Research HubWhite City Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Chapman:2022:10.1039/d2cp00756h,
author = {Chapman, A and Bresme, F},
doi = {10.1039/d2cp00756h},
journal = {Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics},
pages = {14924--14936},
title = {Polarisation of water under thermal fields: the effect of the molecular dipole and quadrupole moments.},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2cp00756h},
volume = {24},
year = {2022}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - The investigation of the behaviour of water under thermal fields is important to understand thermoelectricity of solutions, aqueous suspensions, bioelectric effects or the properties of wet materials under spatially inhomogeneous temperature conditions. Here we discuss the response of bulk water to external thermal fields using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulations, and five widely used forcefields: TIP4P/2005, TIP4P/2005f, OPC, SPC/E and TIP3P. These models all show the thermal polarisation (TP) effect in bulk water, namely the build-up of an electrostatic field induced by the temperature gradient. The strength of this effect is ∼0.1-1 mV K-1 at near-standard conditions for all forcefields, supporting the generality of TP. Moreover, all the models predict a temperature inversion of the polarisation field, although the inversion temperatures vary significantly across different models. We rationalise this result by deriving theoretical equations that describe the temperature inversion as a balance of the isobaric thermal expansion, dipole orientation in the thermal field and the ratio of the molecular dipole/quadrupole moments. Lower ratios lead to higher inversion temperatures. Based on our results, we conclude that the accuracy of the forcefields describing the TP effect decreases as, TIP4P/2005 ∼ TIP4P/2005f ∼ OPC > SPC/E > TIP3P. At coexistence conditions, the inversion temperature is expected to be around 400 K. Furthermore, we establish a correlation between the TP inversion temperature and the temperature corresponding to the minimum of the liquid-vapour surface potential of water.
AU  - Chapman,A
AU  - Bresme,F
DO  - 10.1039/d2cp00756h
EP  - 14936
PY  - 2022///
SN  - 1463-9076
SP  - 14924
TI  - Polarisation of water under thermal fields: the effect of the molecular dipole and quadrupole moments.
T2  - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/d2cp00756h
UR  - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35678242
UR  - https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2022/CP/D2CP00756H
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/97721
VL  - 24
ER  -
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