Suppression of the dynamic transition in surface water at low hydration levels: A study of water on rutile

Eugene Mamontov*, Lukas Vlček, David J. Wesolowski, Peter T. Cummings, Jörgen Rosenqvist, Wei Wang, David R. Cole, Lawrence M. Anovitz, Goran Gasparovic

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Abstract

Our quasielastic neutron-scattering experiments and molecular-dynamics simulations probing surface water on rutile (TiO2) have demonstrated that a sufficiently high hydration level is a prerequisite for the temperature- dependent crossover in the nanosecond dynamics of hydration water. Below the monolayer coverage of mobile surface water, a weak temperature dependence of the relaxation times with no apparent crossover is observed. We associate the dynamic crossover with interlayer jumps of the mobile water molecules, which become possible only at a sufficiently high hydration level.

Original languageEnglish
Article number051504
JournalPhysical Review E
Volume79
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 May 2009

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Condensed Matter Physics
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Statistics and Probability

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