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Molecular simulation of water adsorption on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces of silicon: IR-spectral explorations

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Pages 666-673 | Received 13 Jun 2020, Accepted 22 Feb 2021, Published online: 24 Mar 2021
 

ABSTRACT

Molecular-dynamics simulations have been performed for full liquid water adsorbed onto two planar silicon surfaces, with varying hydrogen- and hydroxyl-termination (mimicking different extents of hydrophobicity and hydrophophilicity). It was found that there was water-density ‘ordering’ perpendicular to both surfaces – heavily dependent on the degree of hydrophobicity. The position and the width of the three solvation layers closest to the different surfaces depends, again, on the hydrophobicity of the surface. IR spectra of the first monolayer of adsorbed water indicate similarities to more confined-water dynamical behaviour, but without becoming ice-like. Moving away from the surface, the water behaviour converges on that of liquid water, albeit with some intermediate characteristics; this was seen for both hydro-phobic and –philic surfaces.

Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the EU FP7 under the European Research Council Starting Grant programme (ERC-SG-335508 ‘Biowater’). JAMG acknowledge funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 665593 awarded to the Science and Technology Facilities Council.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by FP7 Ideas: European Research Council [grant number ERC-SG-335508]; H2020 European Research Council [grant number 665593].

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