Development of reactive force fields using ab initio molecular dynamics simulation minimally biased to experimental data
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of Chemistry. James Franck Inst. Inst. for Biophysical Dynamics; Wuhan Univ. (China). College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Hubei Key Lab. of Electrochemical Power Sources
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Dept. of Chemistry. James Franck Inst. Inst. for Biophysical Dynamics
Incorporation of quantum mechanical electronic structure data is necessary to properly capture the physics of many chemical processes. Proton hopping in water, which involves rearrangement of chemical and hydrogen bonds, is one such example of an inherently quantum mechanical process. Standard ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) methods, however, do not yet accurately predict the structure of water and are therefore less than optimal for developing force fields. We have instead utilized here a recently developed method which minimally biases AIMD simulations to match limited experimental data to develop novel multiscale reactive molecular dynamics (MS-RMD) force fields by using relative entropy minimization. In this paper, we present two new MS-RMD models using such a parameterization: one which employs water with harmonic internal vibrations and another which uses anharmonic water. We show that the newly developed MS-RMD models very closely reproduce the solvation structure of the hydrated excess proton in the target AIMD data. We also find that the use of anharmonic water increases proton hopping, thereby increasing the proton diffusion constant.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States); Wuhan Univ. (China)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Chemical Sciences, Geosciences, and Biosciences Division; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); China Scholarship Council; USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0005418; 21303123; 21303124; 201306275019
- OSTI ID:
- 1512315
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1373443; OSTI ID: 1582246
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Chemical Physics, Vol. 147, Issue 16; ISSN 0021-9606
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Web of Science
Recent advances in quantum‐mechanical molecular dynamics simulations of proton transfer mechanism in various water‐based environments
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journal | May 2019 |
Correlated dynamics in aqueous proton diffusion
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journal | January 2018 |
Correlated Dynamics in Aqueous Proton Diffusion | text | January 2018 |
Correlated dynamics in aqueous proton diffusion
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journal | January 2018 |
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