Nature of the physicochemical process in water photolysis uncovered by a computer simulation

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In this work, we investigate the physicochemical process of water photolysis to bridge physical and chemical processes by a newly developed first-principles calculation code. The deceleration, thermalization, delocalization, and initial hydration of the extremely low-energy electrons ejected by water photolysis are sequentially tracked in the condensed phase. We show herein the calculated results for these sequential phenomena during 300 fs. Our results indicate that the mechanisms heavily depend on the intermolecular vibration and rotation modes peculiar to water and the momentum transfer between the electrons and the water medium. We suggest that using our results for the delocalized electron distribution will reproduce successive chemical reactions measured by photolysis experiments using a chemical reaction code. We expect our approach to become a powerful technique for various scientific fields related to water photolysis and radiolysis.

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:158

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The Journal of chemical physics - 158(2023), 16 vom: 28. Apr.

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kai, Takeshi [VerfasserIn]
Toigawa, Tomohiro [VerfasserIn]
Ukai, Masatoshi [VerfasserIn]
Fujii, Kentaro [VerfasserIn]
Watanabe, Ritsuko [VerfasserIn]
Yokoya, Akinari [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 27.04.2023

Date Revised 27.04.2023

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1063/5.0149333

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NLM356060497