Density functional study of ion hydration for the alkali metal ions (Li+, Na+, K+) and the halide ions (F-, Br-, Cl-).

We performed first principles density functional calculations to study the effect of monovalent ions M+ (M = Li,Na,K) and A- (A = F,Cl,Br) in water with the aim of characterizing the local molecular properties of hydration. For this reason, several ion-water clusters, up to five or six water molecules were considered; such structures were optimized, and the Wannier analysis was then applied to determine the average molecular dipole moment of water. We found that with an increasing number of water molecules, the molecular polarization is determined by the water-water interaction rather than the water-ion interaction, as one would intuitively expect. These results are consistent with those obtained in previous density functional calculations and with other results obtained by employing classical polarizable water models. The main message of this work is that as one increases the number of molecules the average dipole moment of all water molecules and the ones in the first shell tends to the same value as the average of a similar sized cluster of pure water. This supports the use of nonpolarizable classical models of water in classical atomistic simulations.

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