Absorption and Structural Property of Ethanol/Water Mixture with Carbon Nanotubes |
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| Authors: | Sheng-ping Du Wen-hui Zhao Lan-feng Yuan |
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| Affiliation: | Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China |
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| Abstract: | Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are performed to study the structure and adsorption of ethanol/water mixture within carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Inside the (6,6) and (10,10) CNTs, there are always almost full of ethanol molecules and hardly water molecules. Inside wider CNTs, there are some water molecules, while the ethanol mass fractions inside the CNTs are still much higher than the corresponding bulk values. A series of structural analysis for the molecules inside and outside the CNTs are performed, including the distributions of radial, axial, angular density, orientation, and the number of hydrogen bonds. The angular density distribution of the molecules in the first solvation shell outside the CNTs indicates that the methyl groups of ethanol molecules have the strongest interaction with the carbon wall, and are pinned to the centers of the hexagons of the CNTs. Based on the understanding of the microscopic mechanism of these phenomena, we propose that the CNTs prefer to contain ethanol rather than methanol. |
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| Keywords: | Ethanol/water Carbon nanotube Adsorption Molecular dynamics simulation |
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