Open this publication in new window or tab >>2025 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]
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.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Stockholm: Department of Chemistry, Stockholm University, 2025. p. 80
Keywords
Nanomaterials, Metal oxide - water interfaces, Molecular dynamics simulations
National Category
Physical Chemistry
Research subject
Physical Chemistry
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:su:diva-237495 (URN)978-91-8107-072-9 (ISBN)978-91-8107-073-6 (ISBN)
Public defence
2025-02-21, Magnélisalen, Kemiska övningslaboratoriet, Svante Arrhenius väg 16 B, Stockholm, 14:00 (English)
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Supervisors
2025-01-292025-01-032025-01-29Bibliographically approved