Ab initio molecular dynamics simulation of the solvation and transport of hydronium and hydroxyl ions in water

Charge defects in water created by excess or missing protons appear in the form of solvated hydronium H3O+ and hydroxyl OH− ions. Using the method of ab initio molecular dynamics, we have investigated the structure and proton transfer dynamics of the solvation complexes, which embed the ions in the network of hydrogen bonds in the liquid. In our ab initio molecular dynamics approach, the interatomic forces are calculated each time step from the instantaneous electronic structure using density functional methods. All hydrogen atoms, including the excess proton, are treated as classical particles with the mass of a deuterium atom. For the H3O+ ion we find a dynamic solvation complex, which continuously fluctuates between a (H5O2)+ and a (H9O4)+ structure as a result of proton transfer. The OH− has a predominantly planar fourfold coordination forming a (H9O5)− complex. Occasionally this complex is transformed in a more open tetrahedral (H7O4)− structure. Proton transfer is observed only for the more waterlik...

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