Cohesiveness and Nondiffusive Rotational Jump Dynamics of Protic Ionic Liquid from Dispersion-Corrected FPMD Simulations

Biswas, Aritri and Dasari, Sathish and Mallik, Bhabani S. (2020) Cohesiveness and Nondiffusive Rotational Jump Dynamics of Protic Ionic Liquid from Dispersion-Corrected FPMD Simulations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 124 (47). pp. 10752-10765. ISSN 1520-6106

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Abstract

We have investigated the liquid phase of an ionic liquid (IL), methylammonium formate (MAF), through the first principles molecular dynamics simulations using van der Waals (vdW) corrected exchange and correlation functionals of the density functional theory. The simulations were carried out to obtain a comparative study of various properties of the MAF using two different generalized gradient approximation functionals (Becke-Lee-Yang-Parr (BLYP) and Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof (PBE)) along with three types of dispersion corrections (D2, D3, and dispersion-corrected atom-centered one-electron potentials), and two values of the plane-wave cutoff (300 and 600 Ry). We have evaluated the effects of various electronic parameters in describing the hydrogen-bonded structure and dynamical properties of MAF by performing 10 sets of molecular dynamics simulations. Thermodynamic properties are found to be sensitive to the details of electronic structure calculations. Our results of PBE functionals with the semiempirical vdW method provide the best agreement with experimental density. The overall density predictions match the cohesive energy trends, and the calculations incorporating dispersion forces exhibit enhanced intermolecular interactions within the hydrogen-bonded IL framework. All of the vdW-corrected BLYP functionals, mainly the dispersion-corrected atom-centered one-electron potential (DCACP) method, illustrate a well-defined structure of liquid MAF. To look into the dynamical perspective of the hydrogen-bond descriptions, we elucidate two possible mechanistic pathways of the hydrogen-bond jump events between the counterions. The hydrogen-bond breaking and forming mechanism along with the collision dynamics can be best described by incorporating dispersion interactions alongside the exchange and correlation functionals within the Kohn-Sham scheme. The rattling dynamics of ions are observed for dispersion-corrected functionals. Hence, an accurate representation of the delicately balanced interactive forces within ionic liquids is a necessary step toward a better description of its thermophysical and structural properties along with the associated ionic dynamics.

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IITH Creators:

IITH Creators	ORCiD
Biswas, Aritri	UNSPECIFIED
Dasari, Sathish	UNSPECIFIED
Mallik, Bhabani Shankar	http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9657-1497

Item Type:

Article

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Electronic structure calculations; Exchange and correlation functionals; First principles molecular dynamics; Generalized gradient approximations; Hydrogen-bonded structures; Intermolecular interactions; Molecular dynamics simulations; Well-defined structures

Subjects:

Chemistry

Divisions:

Department of Chemistry

Depositing User:

. LibTrainee 2021

Date Deposited:

30 Jun 2021 09:24

Last Modified:

30 Jun 2021 09:24

URI:

http://raiithold.iith.ac.in/id/eprint/8065