Criticality in an imidazolium ionic liquid fully wetting a sapphire support
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| author | Höllring, Kevin Vučemilović-Alagić, Nataša Smith, David M. Smith, Ana-Sunčana |
| author_facet | Höllring, Kevin Vučemilović-Alagić, Nataša Smith, David M. Smith, Ana-Sunčana |
| contents | Hypothesis: Ionic liquids have various applications in catalytic reaction environments. In those systems, their interaction with interfaces is key to their performance as a liquid phase. We hypothesize that the way a monolayer ionic liquid phase interacts with interfaces like a sapphire substrate is significantly dependent on temperature and that critical behavior can be observed in the structural properties of the liquid film.
Methods and simulations: We perform molecular dynamics simulations of imidazolium-based ionic liquid monolayers deposited on a sapphire substrate at temperatures from 200K to 400K. We develop computational tools to analyze structural properties of molecular arrangement in the monolayer, the structure of the film and the defects spontaneously forming and healing.
Findings: We observe a clear structural phase transition at around 300K from a solid-like to a liquid-like behavior of a film. Below the critical point an alternating crystalline structure of cations and anions with alignment of periodic vectors with the underlying substrate grid is observed, with frozen defects. Above the critical temperature, the pattern becomes isotropic within the contact layer that displays dynamic defects of a characteristic size. Our results highlight the importance of confinement to the phase behavior of the system. |
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| spellingShingle | Criticality in an imidazolium ionic liquid fully wetting a sapphire support Höllring, Kevin Vučemilović-Alagić, Nataša Smith, David M. Smith, Ana-Sunčana Soft Condensed Matter Computational Physics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Hypothesis: Ionic liquids have various applications in catalytic reaction environments. In those systems, their interaction with interfaces is key to their performance as a liquid phase. We hypothesize that the way a monolayer ionic liquid phase interacts with interfaces like a sapphire substrate is significantly dependent on temperature and that critical behavior can be observed in the structural properties of the liquid film. Methods and simulations: We perform molecular dynamics simulations of imidazolium-based ionic liquid monolayers deposited on a sapphire substrate at temperatures from 200K to 400K. We develop computational tools to analyze structural properties of molecular arrangement in the monolayer, the structure of the film and the defects spontaneously forming and healing. Findings: We observe a clear structural phase transition at around 300K from a solid-like to a liquid-like behavior of a film. Below the critical point an alternating crystalline structure of cations and anions with alignment of periodic vectors with the underlying substrate grid is observed, with frozen defects. Above the critical temperature, the pattern becomes isotropic within the contact layer that displays dynamic defects of a characteristic size. Our results highlight the importance of confinement to the phase behavior of the system. |
| title | Criticality in an imidazolium ionic liquid fully wetting a sapphire support |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Computational Physics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08449 |