Conformational and Dynamic Properties of Poly (ethylene oxide) in an Ionic Liquid: Development and Implementation of a First-Principles Force Field
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- Title
- Conformational and Dynamic Properties of Poly (ethylene oxide) in an Ionic Liquid: Development and Implementation of a First-Principles Force Field
- Authors
- SON, CHANG YUN; McDaniel, Jesse G.; Choi, Eunsong; Schmidt, Jordan R.; Yethiraj, Arun
- Date Issued
- 2016-01-14
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society
- Abstract
- The conformational properties of polymers in ionic liquids are of fundamental interest but not well understood. Atomistic and coarse-grained molecular models predict qualitatively different results for the scaling of chain size with molecular weight, and experiments on dilute solutions are not available. In this work, we develop a first-principles force field for poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) in the ionic liquid 1-butyl 3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([BMIM][BF4]) using symmetry adapted perturbation theory (SAPT). At temperatures above 400 K, simulations employing both the SAPT and OPLS-AA force fields predict that PEO displays ideal chain behavior, in contrast to previous simulations at lower temperature. We therefore argue that the system shows a transition from extended to more compact configurations as the temperature is increased from room temperature to the experimental lower critical solution temperature. Although polarization is shown to be important, its implicit inclusion in the OPLS-AA force is sufficient to describe the structure and energetics of the mixture. The simulations emphasize the difference between ionic liquids from typical solvents for polymers.
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/103380
- DOI
- 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b10065
- ISSN
- 1520-6106
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 120, no. 1, page. 231 - 243, 2016-01-14
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