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Dynamical cage behaviour and hydrogen migration in hydrogen and hydrogen-tetrahydrofuran clathrate hydrates

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Gorman, Paul D. 
English, Niall J. 
MacElroy, J. M. Don 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3625
Date Issued
24 January 2012
Date Available
07T15:10:15Z June 2012
Abstract
Classical equilibrium molecular dynamics(MD) simulations have been performed to investigate dynamical properties of cage radial breathing modes and intra- and inter-cage hydrogen migration in both pure hydrogen and mixed hydrogen-tetrahydrofuran sII hydrates at 0.05 kbar and up to 250K. For the mixed H2-THF system in which there is single H2 occupation of the small cage (labelled ‘1SC 1LC’), we find that no H2 migration occurs, and this is also the case for pure H2 hydrate with single small-cavity occupation and quadruple occupancy for large cages (dubbed ‘1SC 4LC’). However, for the more densely-filled H2-THF and pure- H2 systems, in which there is double H2 occupation in the small cage (dubbed ‘2SC 1LC’ and ‘2SC 4LC’, respectively), there is an onset of inter-cage H2 migration events from the small cages to neighbouring cavities at around 200 K, with an approximate Arrhenius temperature-dependence for the migration rate from 200 to 250 K. It was found that these ‘cage hopping’ events are facilitated by temporary openings of pentagonal small-cage faces with the relaxation and reformation of key stabilising hydrogen bonds during and following passage. The cages remain essentially intact up to 250 K, save for transient hydrogen bond weakening and reformation during and after inter-cage hydrogen diffusion events in the 200 to 250 K range. The ‘breathing modes’, or underlying frequencies governing the variation in the cavities’ radii, exhibit a certain overlap with THF rattling motion in the case of large cavities, while a there is some overlap of small cages’ radial breathing modes with lattice acoustic modes.
Sponsorship
Science Foundation Ireland
Type of Material
Journal Article
Publisher
American Institute of Physics
Journal
Journal of Chemical Physics
Volume
136
Issue
4
Start Page
0044506
Copyright (Published Version)
2012 American Institute of Physics
Keywords
  • Molecular dynamics

  • Hydrogen hydrate

  • THF hydrate

  • Breathing modes

  • Migration

Subject – LCSH
Molecular dynamics
Hydrates
Hydrogen
Chemical bonds
DOI
10.1063/1.3677188
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0021-9606 (print)
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
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