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水溶液中质子扩散的关联动力学

Correlated Dynamics in Aqueous Proton Diffusion

Sean A. Fischer, Brett I. Dunlap, Daniel Gunlycke

摘要:

水溶液的质子显示出极大的扩散系数,是类似大小的阳离子的扩散系数的7倍。人们普遍认为,质子是通过格罗托斯机制实现其高扩散的,即质子从一个分子跳到下一个分子。从实验结果中提取格罗图斯机制的时间尺度的一个主要假设是,平均而言,质子跳跃到任何相邻水分子的概率相等。在这里,我们提出了从头算模拟,表明这种假设是不普遍有效的。具体来说,我们观察到质子恢复到先前位置的可能性增加。这些相关性表明,实验结果的解释需要重新检查,并表明格罗图斯机制的时间尺度比以前认为的要短得多。

英文摘要:

The aqueous proton displays an anomalously large diffusion coefficient that is up to 7 times that of similarly sized cations. There is general consensus that the proton achieves its high diffusion through the Grotthuss mechanism, whereby protons hop from one molecule to the next. A main assumption concerning the extraction of the timescale of the Grotthuss mechanism from experimental results has been that, on average, there is an equal probability for the proton to hop to any of its neighboring water molecules. Herein, we present ab initio simulations that show this assumption is not generally valid. Specifically, we observe that there is an increased probability for the proton to revert back to its previous location. These correlations indicate that the interpretation of the experimental results need to be re-examined and suggest that the timescale of the Grotthuss mechanism is significantly shorter than was previously thought.

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