TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermodynamic Anomalies in Stretched Water
AU - Altabet, Y. Elia
AU - Singh, Rakesh S.
AU - Stillinger, Frank H.
AU - Debenedetti, Pablo G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Y.E.A. is grateful to Nyssa Emerson for figure preparation assistance. We thank John Biddle and Mikhail Anisimov for allowing us to reproduce the two-structure equation of state fits in Figure 4, originally generated for ref 12. P.G.D. gratefully acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (Grants CHE-1213343 and CBET-1263565). Computations were performed at the Terascale Infrastructure for Groundbreaking Research in Engineering and Science at Princeton University.
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© 2017 American Chemical Society.
PY - 2017/10/24
Y1 - 2017/10/24
N2 - Via molecular dynamics simulations of the TIP4P/2005 water model, we study liquid water's anomalous behavior at large negative pressure produced through isochoric cooling. We find that isochores without a pressure minimum can display "reentrant" behavior whereby a system that cavitates upon cooling can then rehomogenize upon further cooling. This behavior is a consequence of the underlying density maximum along the spinodal, but its actual manifestation in simulations is strongly influenced by finite size effects. These observations suggest that water under strong hydrophilic confinement may display richer phase behavior than hitherto assumed. This also suggests that propensity toward cavitation does not always correlate with greater tension, contrary to the prevailing assumption for interpreting water stretching experiments. We also show that a maximum spinodal density in water results in a locus of maximum compressibility and a minimum speed of sound that are independent from any influence of a liquid-liquid critical point (LLCP). However, we demonstrate that structural signatures of a Widom line, which likely emanates from an LLCP at elevated pressure, extend to large negative pressure, but such signatures are only observed upon sampling water's underlying potential energy landscape, rather than the thermalized metastable liquid.
AB - Via molecular dynamics simulations of the TIP4P/2005 water model, we study liquid water's anomalous behavior at large negative pressure produced through isochoric cooling. We find that isochores without a pressure minimum can display "reentrant" behavior whereby a system that cavitates upon cooling can then rehomogenize upon further cooling. This behavior is a consequence of the underlying density maximum along the spinodal, but its actual manifestation in simulations is strongly influenced by finite size effects. These observations suggest that water under strong hydrophilic confinement may display richer phase behavior than hitherto assumed. This also suggests that propensity toward cavitation does not always correlate with greater tension, contrary to the prevailing assumption for interpreting water stretching experiments. We also show that a maximum spinodal density in water results in a locus of maximum compressibility and a minimum speed of sound that are independent from any influence of a liquid-liquid critical point (LLCP). However, we demonstrate that structural signatures of a Widom line, which likely emanates from an LLCP at elevated pressure, extend to large negative pressure, but such signatures are only observed upon sampling water's underlying potential energy landscape, rather than the thermalized metastable liquid.
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U2 - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02339
DO - 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b02339
M3 - Article
C2 - 28885852
AN - SCOPUS:85032035997
SN - 0743-7463
VL - 33
SP - 11771
EP - 11778
JO - Langmuir
JF - Langmuir
IS - 42
ER -