Thermophysical properties of energetic ionic liquids/nitric acid mixtures: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations.

Autor: Hooper, Justin B., Smith, Grant D., Bedrov, Dmitry
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Zdroj: Journal of Chemical Physics; Sep2013, Vol. 139 Issue 10, p104503, 9p, 1 Diagram, 11 Graphs
Abstrakt: Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of mixtures of the room temperature ionic liquids (ILs) 1-butyl-4-methyl imidazolium [BMIM]/dicyanoamide [DCA] and [BMIM][NO3-] with HNO3 have been performed utilizing the polarizable, quantum chemistry based APPLE&P® potential. Experimentally it has been observed that [BMIM][DCA] exhibits hypergolic behavior when mixed with HNO3 while [BMIM][NO3-] does not. The structural, thermodynamic, and transport properties of the IL/HNO3 mixtures have been determined from equilibrium MD simulations over the entire composition range (pure IL to pure HNO3) based on bulk simulations. Additional (non-equilibrium) simulations of the composition profile for IL/HNO3 interfaces as a function of time have been utilized to estimate the composition dependent mutual diffusion coefficients for the mixtures. The latter have been employed in continuum-level simulations in order to examine the nature (composition and width) of the IL/HNO3 interfaces on the millisecond time scale. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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