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Oxygen Vacancies on Hydrated Anatase (101) Surfaces: Insights from Classical and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry.ORCID iD: 0009-0004-9015-5942
Stockholm University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9390-5719
2025 (English)In: Nanomaterials, E-ISSN 2079-4991, Vol. 15, no 5, article id 364Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Hydrated anatase (101) titanium dioxide surfaces with oxygen vacancies have been studied using a combination of classical and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The reactivity of surface oxygen vacancies was investigated using ab initio calculations, showing that water molecules quickly adsorb to oxygen vacancy sites upon hydration. The oxygen vacancy then quickly reacts with the adsorbed water, forming a protonated bridging oxygen atom at the vacancy site and at a neighboring oxygen bridge. Ab initio simulations also revealed that this occurs via a short-lived hydronium ion intermediate. It was investigated how this reaction affects the structure and dynamics of water near the anatase surface. Classical molecular dynamics simulations of surfaces with and without oxygen vacancies showed that vacancies disrupt the second solvation shell, consisting of water molecules hydrogen bonded to the surface, thereby changing the local water density and diffusion as well as the binding modes for hydrogen bonding. Our findings support the hydroxylation of oxygen vacancies on anatase (101) surfaces, rather than stabilization by molecular adsorption or subsurface diffusion. The work gives new atomistic insight into water structure and surface chemistry on the catalytically relevant anatase (101) titanium dioxide surface.

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2025. Vol. 15, no 5, article id 364
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titanium dioxide nanomaterials, oxygen vacancies, molecular dynamics simulations
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Materials Chemistry
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-237488DOI: 10.3390/nano15050364ISI: 001468067400001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-86000495950OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-237488DiVA, id: diva2:1924122
Available from: 2025-01-02 Created: 2025-01-02 Last updated: 2025-10-06Bibliographically approved
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1. Ab initio molecular dynamics study of metal oxide-water interfaces and development of polarizable force field
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Ab initio molecular dynamics study of metal oxide-water interfaces and development of polarizable force field
2025 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
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This thesis describes a computational study of interfaces between water and metal oxides using classical and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. Specifically, the work focuses on different surfaces of the metal oxides TiO2 and ZnO. A number of different systems were simulated including ideal flat surfaces, a curved nanoparticle surface as well as surfaces with oxygen vacancies. It was investigated how the properties of water change near the metal oxide - water interface and what reactions water molecules undergo in these systems. Furthermore, classical force fields describing interactions in TiO2, ZnO and their hydrated surfaces were developed. This was done by partitioning of electron density from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations combined with scaling theories relating atomic volumes to polarizabilities and dispersion coefficients. For TiO2 a polarizable force field based on the Drude oscillator model was developed. The results give new atomistic insight into water structure, dynamics and reactivity on metal oxide surfaces and highlights the importance of polarizability for accurate modeling of water adsorption thermodynamics.

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Stockholm: Department of Chemistry, Stockholm University, 2025. p. 80
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Nanomaterials, Metal oxide - water interfaces, Molecular dynamics simulations
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Physical Chemistry
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Physical Chemistry
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urn:nbn:se:su:diva-237495 (URN)978-91-8107-072-9 (ISBN)978-91-8107-073-6 (ISBN)
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2025-02-21, Magnélisalen, Kemiska övningslaboratoriet, Svante Arrhenius väg 16 B, Stockholm, 14:00 (English)
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