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Hydrogen bond symmetrization is a fundamental pressure-induced transformation in which the distinction between donor and acceptor sites vanishes, resulting in a symmetric hydrogen-bond network. While extensively studied in pure ice, most…
It has recently been shown that the TIP4P/Ice model of water can be studied numerically in metastable equilibrium at and below its liquid-liquid critical temperature. We report here simulations along a subcritical isotherm, for which two…
Here we show that the Coulomb interaction between violations of the Bernal-Fowler rules leads to a temperature induced step-wise increase in their concentration by 6-7 orders of magnitude. This first-order phase transition is accompanied by…
In the present study, water is considered as a dynamic network between molecules at distances not exceeding 3.2 angstroms. The instantaneous configurations obtained by using the molecular dynamics method have been sequentially analyzed, the…
We present a 2D lattice model of water to study the effects of ion hydration on the properties of water. We map the water molecules as lattice particles consisting of a single Oxygen at the center of a site and two Hydrogen atoms on each…
Using modified Arrhenius approximations, the activation energies of water, alcohols, and hexane structure rearrangement reactions responsible for temperature dependences of their dynamic and dielectric characteristics were determined. The…
Liquid-liquid phase transition (LLPT) in supercooled water has been a long-standing controversial issue. We show simulation results of real stable first-order phase transitions between high and low density liquid (HDL and LDL)-like…
The hydrogen-bonded structure of methanol-water mixtures is investigated over the entire alcohol concentration range (from $x_{\mathrm{Methanol}}=$ 0.1 to 1.0) at several temperatures, from 300 K down to the freezing point of the given…
The energy landscape approach has been useful to help understand the dynamic properties of supercooled liquids and the connection between these properties and thermodynamics. The analysis in numerical models of the inherent structure (IS)…
Water is an associated liquid in which the main intermolecular interaction is the hydrogen bond (HB) which is limited to four per atom, independently of the number of neighbours. We have considered a hydrogen bond net superposed on Bernal's…
Hydrogen bonding is essential in electron transfer processes at water-electrode interfaces. We study the impact of the H-bonding of water as a solvent molecule on real-time electron transfer dynamics across a Cs+-Cu(111) ion-metal interface…
The hydrogen-bond (H-bond) network of high-pressure water is investigated by neural-network-based molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with the first-principles accuracy. The static structure factors (SSFs) of water at three densities, i.e.,…
By equilibrating condensed DNA arrays against reservoirs of known osmotic stress and examining them with several structural probes, it has been possible to achieve a detailed thermodynamic and structural characterization of the change…
We have mapped the molecular-atomic transition in liquid hydrogen using first principles molecular dynamics. We predict that a molecular phase with short-range orientational order exists at pressures above 100 GPa. The presence of this…
Ionic liquids (ILs) gain much interest as possible electrolytes in the next generation of mixed-solid Li-ion batteries. However, such properties of ionic liquids as melting transition, diffusion, strength and structure of hydrogen bond…
High pressure behaviour of superhydrous phase B(HT) of Mg10Si3O14(OH)4 (Shy B) is investigated with the help of density functional theory based first principles calculations. In addition to the lattice parameters and equation of state, we…
Gas hydrates are systems of prime importance. In particular, hydrogen hydrates are potential materials of icy satellites and comets, and may be used for hydrogen storage. We explore the H2O-H2 system at pressures in the range 0-100 GPa with…
The dynamics of water molecules plays a vital role in understanding water. We combined computer simulation and deep learning to study the dynamics of H-bonds between water molecules. Based on ab initio molecular dynamics simulations and a…
Energy dissipation in water is very fast and more efficient than in many other liquids. This behavior is commonly attributed to the intermolecular interactions associated with hydrogen bonding. Here, we investigate the dynamic energy flow…
We describe the atomic-level motions in caesium hydroxide monohydrate (CsOH$\cdot$H$_2$O), which is a chemical compound containing layers of water and hydroxide ions. At this composition, each oxygen is involved in three hydrogen bonds…