Dynamics of capillary drying in water |
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Authors: | Leung Kevin Luzar Alenka Bratko Dusan |
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Institution: | Sandia National Laboratories, MS 1421, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185, USA. |
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Abstract: | We use atomistic simulations to address the question when capillary evaporation of water confined in a hydrocarbonlike slit is kinetically viable. Activation barriers and absolute rates of evaporation are estimated using open ensemble Monte Carlo-umbrella sampling and molecular dynamics simulations. At ambient conditions, the evaporation rate in a water film four molecular diameters thick is found to be of the order 10(5)(nm(2) s)(-1), meaning that water readily evaporates. Films more than a few nanometers thick will persist in a metastable liquid state. Dissolved atmospheric gas molecules do not significantly decrease the activation barrier. |
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