通过分子动力学模拟研究烷基芘液体的结构和扩散动力学。
Liquid Structures and Diffusion Dynamics of Alkyl-Pyrene Liquids Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations.
机构信息
Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Oiwake-Cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8052, Japan.
International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (WPI-MANA), National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.
出版信息
J Phys Chem B. 2023 Jun 1;127(21):4870-4885. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c08385. Epub 2023 Apr 24.
Functional molecular liquids (FMLs) based on alkylated π-conjugated molecules have attracted attention as solvent-free and nonvolatile liquid materials with prominent optoelectronic features. Recently, novel FML compounds containing pyrene as the functional core were synthesized, and their rheological and photochemical properties were investigated. Although the molecules differ only in the number of alkyl chain substituents and their substitution positions, their viscosity coefficients are largely different beyond the Stokes-Einstein relation on the assumption of identical microscopic friction, indicating that local microscopic molecular interactions are crucial for the macroscopic rheological properties. Here, we report a theoretical study on the rheological properties of the alkyl-pyrene liquids by means of atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We performed long-time MD simulations for tens of microseconds to obtain ample statistical samples of the alkyl-pyrene liquids and analyzed their liquid structures and diffusion dynamics based on spatiotemporal correlation functions. We found the formation of characteristic local liquid structures of π-π stacking of the pyrene moieties and locally anisotropic and anomalous diffusion dynamics, which remarkably vary depending on the alkyl substituent patterns. The present results provide an atomistic insight into the macroscopic rheological properties of alkyl-π FMLs and molecular design strategy for them.
基于烷基化π共轭分子的功能分子液体(FMLs)作为无溶剂和非挥发性液体材料,具有突出的光电性能,引起了人们的关注。最近,合成了含有芘作为功能核心的新型 FML 化合物,并研究了它们的流变和光化学性质。尽管这些分子仅在烷基链取代基的数量及其取代位置上有所不同,但在假设相同微观摩擦的情况下,它们的粘度系数远远超出了斯托克斯-爱因斯坦关系,表明局部微观分子相互作用对于宏观流变性质至关重要。在这里,我们通过原子分子动力学(MD)模拟对烷基芘液体的流变性质进行了理论研究。我们进行了数十微秒的长时间 MD 模拟,以获得烷基芘液体的大量统计样本,并基于时空相关函数分析了它们的液体结构和扩散动力学。我们发现了芘部分π-π堆积的特征局部液体结构的形成以及局部各向异性和异常扩散动力学,这些动力学显著依赖于烷基取代基模式。这些结果为烷基-π FML 的宏观流变性质以及它们的分子设计策略提供了原子水平的见解。