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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics Année : 2015

Tunable dielectric constant of water at the nanoscale

Richard Renou
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Aziz Ghoufi

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Using molecular dynamics simulations, the influence of the surface charge density of a nanotube on the static dielectric permittivity ε of confined water was reported. Whereas the dielectric anisotropy between the radial and axial directions of water confined in hydrophilic and hydrophobic membranes and the increase in axial dielectric permittivity with respect to the bulk value have previously been described, we found that an increase in the surface charge density leads to a drastic decrease in ε into the axial direction. The decrease in ε is accompanied by a strong slowdown in the rotational dynamics of water molecules. We show that this effect is due to the strong orientation of water molecules induced by the surface charge. Thus, by controlling the surface charge in nanotubes and nanocavities, it is possible to tune the dielectric permittivity of confined fluids at the nanoscale.
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hal-01134148 , version 1 (23-03-2015)

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Richard Renou, Anthony Szymczyk, Aziz Ghoufi. Tunable dielectric constant of water at the nanoscale. Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2015, 91 (3), pp.6. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevE.91.032411⟩. ⟨hal-01134148⟩
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