Diffusion enhancement in core-softened fluid confined in nanotubes

• Autor(a) principal: Bordin, José Rafael
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Alan Barros de, Diehl, Alexandre, Barbosa, Marcia Cristina Bernardes
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/205077
• topic: Dinâmica molecular; Difusão; Nanotubos; Água

We study the effect of confinement in the dynamical behavior of a core-softened fluid. The fluid is modeled as a two length scales potential. This potential in the bulk reproduces the anomalous behavior observed in the density and in the diffusion of liquid water. A series of NpT molecular dynamics simulations for this two length scales fluid confined in a nanotube were performed. We obtain that the diffusion coefficient increases with the increase of the nanotube radius for wide channels as expected for normal fluids. However, for narrow channels, the confinement shows an enhancement in the diffusion coefficient when the nanotube radius decreases. This behavior, observed for water, is explained in the framework of the two length scales potential.