Given the potential of Titanium Dioxide as a source of alternative energy, drug delivery, protein adsorption, etc. it is imperative that the underlying mechanism of surface-water interactions be thoroughly understood. To this end, our study employs Molecular Dynamics simulations to establish a nanoscale, all atomistic model to capture the mechanistics of the interfacial interactions of water with a Titanium Dioxide surface. Two polymorphs of Titanium Dioxide, Anatase (101) and Rutile (110), are simulated and various aspects of their interfacial behavior studied. Further, a comparison is made between two different electrostatic models, namely, the Multi- Level Summation and the Screened Coulomb potential. The outcome of these studies can guide the adoption of suitable electrostatic potentials for examining bulk-scale behavior in titania-water systems. To this end, a specific case of Titanium Dioxide decorated with Platinum atoms is studied using the Screened Coulomb potential.
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Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
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Molecular dynamics
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Titanium dioxide
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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1 online resource (vi, 35 p. : ill.)
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M.S.
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Includes bibliographical references
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by Srinivas Chakravarthy Mushnoori
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Graduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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