Temperature Dependence of Static Structure Factor Peak Intensities for a Pyrrolidinium-Based Ionic Liquid
Temperature Dependence of Static Structure Factor Peak Intensities for a Pyrrolidinium-Based Ionic Liquid
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吡咯烷鎓基离子液体静态结构因子峰强度的温度依赖性
DOI:
10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b00449
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发表时间:
2019
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Wheeler, Ralph A.
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Mackoy, Travis;Mauro, Nicholas A.;Wheeler, Ralph A.
Static structure factors (S(q)) for many ionic liquids show low-wavenumber peaks whose intensities increase with increasing temperature. The greater peak intensities might seem to imply increasing intermediate-range order with increasing temperature. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations for a representative ionic liquid, 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide (C4C1pyrrTFSI), were used to calculateS(q) and partialS(q) (cation–cation, anion–anion, and cation–anion) at 298, 363, and 500 K.S(q) and partialS(q) were further decomposed into positive and negative components (which each indicate structural ordering) by separately summing positive and negative Fourier transform summands. Increasing temperature causes the negative components of each partialS(q) to decrease in magnitude more than the positive components, causing the totalS(q) to increase in magnitude. Thus, structural ordering with periodicities corresponding to observed peaks inS(q) does not increase but instead decoheres with increasing temperature, even thoughS(q) peak heights increase. Fourier transform summands also show where in real space the positive and negative component contributions toS(q) change when the temperature increases. This new, detailed analysis based on Fourier transform summands comprisingS(q) argues for great caution when interpretingS(q) intensities and highlights the value of simulations as a complement to X-ray (or neutron) scattering experiments.