Siani Paulo, Frigerio Giulia, Donadoni Edoardo, Di Valentin Cristiana
Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano Bicocca, via R. Cozzi 55, 20125 Milano, Italy.
BioNanoMedicine Center NANOMIB, University of Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milano, Italy.
J Phys Chem C Nanomater Interfaces. 2023 May 9;127(19):9236-9247. doi: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c08988. eCollection 2023 May 18.
Nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations were performed to study the electrokinetic properties of five mainstream TIPP water models (namely, TIP3P-FB, TIP3Pm, TIP4P-FB, TIP4P-Ew, and TIP4P/2005) in NaCl aqueous solutions in the presence of a negatively charged TiO surface. The impact of solvent flexibility and system geometry on the electro-osmotic (EO) mobility and flow direction was systematically assessed and compared. We found that lack of water flexibility decelerates the forward EO flow of aqueous solutions at moderate (0.15 M) or high (0.30 M) NaCl concentrations, in some special cases to such an extent that EO flow reversal occurs. Zeta potential (ZP) values were then determined from the bulk EO mobilities using the Helmholtz-Smoluchowski formula. The straight comparison against available experimental data strongly suggests that water flexibility improves the ZP determination of NaCl solutions adjacent to a realistic TiO surface under neutral pH conditions.
进行了非平衡分子动力学模拟,以研究在带负电的TiO表面存在的情况下,五种主流TIPP水模型(即TIP3P-FB、TIP3Pm、TIP4P-FB、TIP4P-Ew和TIP4P/2005)在NaCl水溶液中的电动性质。系统地评估和比较了溶剂灵活性和系统几何形状对电渗(EO)迁移率和流动方向的影响。我们发现,在中等(0.15 M)或高(0.30 M)NaCl浓度下,缺乏水的灵活性会减缓水溶液的正向EO流动,在某些特殊情况下,EO流动会发生逆转。然后使用亥姆霍兹-斯莫卢霍夫斯基公式从整体EO迁移率确定zeta电位(ZP)值。与现有实验数据的直接比较强烈表明,在中性pH条件下,水的灵活性改善了与实际TiO表面相邻的NaCl溶液的ZP测定。