VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF ANIONIC PAH-WATER CLUSTERS

LeMessurier, Natalie

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Title

VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY OF ANIONIC PAH-WATER CLUSTERS

Author(s)

LeMessurier, Natalie

Contributor(s)

• Eaves, Joel D.
• Weber, J. Mathias
• Salzmann, Heinrich

Issue Date

2023-06-19

Keyword(s)

Comparing theory and experiment

Abstract

The intermolecular forces that govern water-hydrocarbon interactions have profound effects in interfacial phenomena, like wetting, and large-scale applications to issues like water security through water desalination with two-dimensional membranes. I will discuss our work on building dynamical methods and water models to describe and interpret the vibrational spectroscopy of anionic water-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) clusters which act as a minimal model for aqueous-carbon interfaces. Even in a small system of one water with a charged PAH, there is significant complexity, including non-Gaussian fluctuations and ergodicity-breaking at low temperatures. Systematically accounting for these effects leads to semi-quantitative agreement between theoretical predictions and experimental measurements for the IR spectrum in the OH stretching region.

Publisher

International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy

Type of Resource

Text

Language

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/122432

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