Water adsorption, dynamic

Stimulated by these observations, Odelius et al. [73] performed molecular dynamic (MD) simulations of water adsorption at the surface of muscovite mica. They found that at monolayer coverage, water forms a fully connected two-dimensional hydrogen-bonded network in epitaxy with the mica lattice, which is stable at room temperature. A model of the calculated structure is shown in Figure 26. The icelike monolayer (actually a warped molecular bilayer) corresponds to what we have called phase-I. The model is in line with the observed hexagonal shape of the boundaries between phase-I and phase-II. Another result of the MD simulations is that no free OH bonds stick out of the surface and that on average the dipole moment of the water molecules points downward toward the surface, giving a ferroelectric character to the water bilayer. 

Dynamic surface tension has also been measured by quasielastic light scattering (QELS) from interfacial capillary waves [30]. It was shown that QELS gives the same result for the surface tension as the traditional Wilhelmy plate method down to the molecular area of 70 A. QELS has recently utilized in the study of adsorption dynamics of phospholipids on water-1,2-DCE, water-nitrobenzene and water-tetrachloromethane interfaces [31]. This technique is still in its infancy in liquid-liquid systems and its true power is to be shown in the near future. 

Valuable information can be obtained from thermal desorption spectra (TDS) spectra, despite the fact that electrochemists are somewhat cautious about the relevance of ultrahigh vacuum data to the solution situation, and the solid/liquid interface in particular. Their objections arise from the fact that properties of the double layer depend on the interaction of the electrode with ions in the solution. Experiments in which the electrode, after having been in contact with the solution, is evacuated and further investigated under high vacuum conditions, can hardly reflect the real situation at the metal/solution interface. However, the TDS spectra can provide valuable information about the energy of water adsorption on metals and its dependence on the surface structure. At low temperatures of 100 to 200 K, frozen molecules of water are fixed at the metal. This case is quite different from the adsorption at the electrode/solution interface, which usually involves a dynamic equilibrium with molecules in the bulk. 

Framework Dynamics Including Computer Simulations of the Water Adsorption Isotherm of Zeolite Na-MAP. See also J.-R. Hill, C. M. Freeman, and L. Subramanian, in Reviews in Computational Chemistry, K. B. Lipkowitz and D. B. Boyd, Eds., Wiley-VCH, New York, 2000, Vol. 16, pp. 141-216. Use of Force Fields in Materials Modeling. The shell model is also discussed by B. van de Graaf, S. L. Njo, and K. S. Smirnov, in Reviews in... 

At first, characteristics of activated carbons basing on porous structure and specific surface, content of ash, water adsorption and mar resistance has been determined. The volume of pores (radius of capillaries from below 1.5 to 10 nm) and the specific surface of carbons have been determined by means of dynamic adsorption and desorption of benzene vapour on the sorptive porometer DHL-3 [30]. Pores of greater radius have been determined by means of method of mercury forcing (under pressure) in carbon sample on the porometer of Carlo Erba [31 ]. 

In the preformulation study, the comprehension of physicochemical properties regarding water-solid surface interaction is beneficial to the handling, formulation, and manufacture of the finished products. Data on sorption/de-sorption isotherm, hydration of salts of drug product, water sorption of pharmaceutical excipients, and kinetics of water adsorption or desorption of a substance can be obtained effectively by the dynamic vapor sorption method. The knowledge may be utilized for dosage form design and supports the understanding of the mechanism of action. 

All these studies tell us is that it is not enough to look at the stationary points on the PES. Because of the flatness of the potential energy surface and similar energies of neutral and ion-pair adsorption structures, the dynamics of the system at realistic temperatures needs to be considered. The average structures obtained under these conditions may deviate significantly from the equilibrium structures. We will come back to this point in the water adsorption section. 

Grivtsov, Zhuravlev, and co-workers (Institute of Physical Chemistry, the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences, Moscow) (385, 386) resorted to numerical modeling of molecular dynamics in investigating problems of water adsorption by the hydroxylated surface of the face (0001) in / -tridymite. / -tridymite was chosen as a model form of silica because such a crystalline modification is close in density to that of amorphous silica. The boundary layer in Si02 was considered when each surface Si atom held one OH group. The rotational mobility of the hydroxyl groups is an important factor in the adsorption of water. 

More recently, the adsorption dynamics of CnDMPO, C12DMPO and CioDMPO at freshly formed water-hexane interfaces has been investigated as a function of the initial partition conditions and as a function of the relative volumes between the two liquids [141]. The Table 4.1 summarises some K-values for the system water-hexane. 

The adsorption kinetics at liquid/liquid interfaces is a more complicated problem, as the transfer of surfactant from one phase to the other has to be taken into account. In the experiments performed by Liggieri and Ravera [197] using the expanded drop method, no preliminary saturation of the oil phase with CjoEOg was made. For this case, instead of Eq. (4.1), the expression (4.94) should be used, where K is the equilibrium distribution coefficient of surfactant between the oil and water phases, and D2 is the surfactant diffusion coefficient in the oil phase. The reduced distribution coefficient defined by = K(D2/Di) is a parameter that reflects quantitatively the adsorption dynamics at such a liquid/liquid interface. 

Recently, the competitive adsorption dynamics of phospholipid/protein mixed system at the chloroform/water interface was investigated by using the drop volume technique. The three proteins P-Lactoglobulin, P-Casein, and Human Serum Albumin were used in this study. To investigate the influence of the phospholipid structure at concentrations close to the CAC (critic aggregation concentration) the four lipids dipalmitoyl phosphatidyl choline (DPPC), dimyristoyl phosphatidyl choline (DMPC), dimyristoyl phosphatidyl ethanolamine (DMPE)... 

Although describing properties of the bulk liquids, in surfactant solutions the value of K strongly influences the adsorption dynamics at the liquid-liquid interface. For example, in adsorption and diffusion processes in water-oil systems, knowledge of the K value is fundamental in interpreting the experimental data (114, 115, 164, 169). 

McKim, J., Schmieder, P. and Veith, G. (1985) Adsorption dynamics of organic chemical transport across trout gills as related to octanol-water partition coefficient. Toxicol Appl Pharmacol, 77, 1-10. 

Branco, R. J. R, M. Graber, V. Denis, and J. Pleiss. 2009. Molecular mechanism of the hydration of Candida antarctica hpase B in the gas phase Water adsorption isotherms and molecular dynamics simulations. ChemBioChem. 10, 2913. 

Modeling of the dynamic behavior of the PG/water adsorption complex at 150 K and 300 K (Figure 1.79) using PM3 method reveals that similar complexes can be decomposed at room temperature (or slightly higher) if the PG adsorption occurs onto the outer (open) surface of silica aggregates (desorption of a portion of PG at room temperature was observed for the stored sample 6 with the maximal CpG value when the PG adsorption can occur on the outer surfaces of aggregates). 

Periodic calculations have also been used to examine the dynamics of water adsorption over the Al-terminated 0001 surface (427). Using DFT with a plane-wave basis set and forced molecular dynamics, it was demonstrated that the barrier to chemisorption of a water molecule as two hydroxyl groups was dependent on the local geometry of the adsorption site. The lowest barrier... 

It has been recognized that the structure of water near the interface determines the adsorption behavior of ions on the metal surface in specific ways [24, 30, 31]. Therefore, realistic models of the metal phase are needed in order to describe the inhomogeneity and orientational anisotropy in the aqueous phase adequately. Contrary to the situation for bulk liquid where reliable interaction potentials, from empirical parametrizations or from ab initio calculations, are available, the quantum chemical description of interactions between molecular adsorbates and metal substrates poses substantial problems due to the complexity of the system. Systematic studies contribute to the understanding of the key factors that determine the structure and dynamics at the electrochemical interface. In the present work the influence of water adsorption energy (for many transition metal surfaces a known experimental quantity [32]), surface corru-... 

In the case of the Pt(lOO) surface the interaction potential is derived from semiempirical quantum chemical calculations of the interactions of a water molecule with a 5-atom platinum cluster [35]. The lattice of metal atoms is flexible and the atoms can perform oscillatory motions described by a single force constant taken from lattice dynamics studies of the pure platinum metal. The water-platinum interaction potential does not only depend on the distance between two particles but also on the projection of this distance onto the surface plane, thus leading to the desired property of water adsorption with the oxygen atoms on top of a surface atom. For more details see the original references [1,2]. This model has later been simplifled and adapted to the Pt(lll) surface by Berkowitz and coworkers [3,4] who used a simple corrugation function instead of atom-atom pair potentials. 

Apart from solid-liquid interfaces, also liquid-liquid interfaces can be investigated using PCS. As an example, the adsorption dynamics of proteins at the oil-water interface was measured [21]. However, changes in refractive index at the interfaces should be carefully considered in order to avoid misinterpretations. A thoughtful analysis of such effects has been performed by Donsmark et al. who determined the molecular detection function of their system using numerical wave-optical calculations [21]. 

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