| Full text | |
| Author(s): |
Santos, Jaciara C. C.
[1]
;
Negreiros, Fabio R.
[2, 3]
;
Pedroza, Luana S.
[2]
;
Dalpian, Gustavo M.
[2]
;
Miranda, Paulo B.
[1]
Total Authors: 5
|
| Affiliation: | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, Inst Fis Sao Carlos, CP 369, BR-13560970 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Univ Fed ABC, Ctr Ciencias Nat & Humanas, BR-09210580 Sao Paulo - Brazil
[3] Univ Nacl Cordoba, Fac Ciencias Quim, Dept Quim Teor & Computat, RA-5000 Cordoba - Argentina
Total Affiliations: 3
|
| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Journal of the American Chemical Society; v. 140, n. 49, p. 17141-17152, DEC 12 2018. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 3 |
| Abstract | |
Water-mineral interfaces are important for several environmental, industrial, biological, and geological processes. Gypsum, CaSO4 center dot 2H(2)O, is a widespread mineral of high technological, medical, and environmental relevance, but little is known about its surface structure and its interaction with water. A molecular-level understanding of gypsum/water interface is given here by a combined experimental/theoretical study. We investigate the structure and dynamics of water adsorbed from vapor on the gypsum (010) single-crystal surface at room temperature, combining sum-frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy experiments and ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) simulations. The SFG spectra of gypsum at low relative humidity (RH) show an anisotropic arrangement of structural water molecules and the presence of dangling OH groups. The AIMD simulations allow a detailed assignment of the SFG spectra and show that the cleaved (010) surface rearranges to have only 25% of the OH groups pointing away from the surface. At higher RHs, the first adsorbed water layer binds to these OH groups and forms an anisotropic arrangement, but with the amount of free OH groups significantly suppressed and without any significant diffusion. Upon adsorption of a second water layer, although the topmost layer of molecules is more disordered and dynamic than the previous one, its structure is still influenced by the gypsum surface underneath because it has a much reduced amount of free OH groups with respect to the free surface of water, and a slower surface diffusion with respect to bulk water. The theoretical results corroborate the experimental ones and provide an accurate atomic characterization of the surface structure. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/13753-0 - HPC Cluster HPC for CNPEM |
| Grantee: | Adalberto Fazzio |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Grants - Technical Reserve for Institutional Research Infrastructure |
| FAPESP's process: | 11/19924-2 - Study and development of advanced novel materials: electronic, magnetic and nanostructured: an interdisciplinary approach |
| Grantee: | Carlos Rettori |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/01595-0 - Investigating interfaces in polymeric optoelectronic devices by SFG spectroscopy |
| Grantee: | Roberto Mendonça Faria |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/14271-9 - Heterogeneous nanocatalysis: computational simulation of supported nanoparticles |
| Grantee: | Fabio Negreiros Ribeiro |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |