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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 13, Issue 44, Pages 19979-19987Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1cp21919g
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- EPSRC [ep-I001514]
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/I001514/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/I001514/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Equilibrium melting temperatures for structure II THF hydrate and argon/xenon (Ar/Xe) binary hydrate have been calculated using molecular dynamics using two melting techniques, namely the Z method [Belonoshko et al., Phys. Rev. B, 2006, 73, 012201] (applied for the first time to complex molecular solids) and direct phase coexistence simulations. The two methods give results in moderate agreement: calculations with the Z method give T-fus to be 250.7 K (0.77 katm) for THF and 244.3 K (1.86 katm) for Ar/Xe hydrate respectively; the corresponding direct phase coexistence calculations give T-fus in the range 235-240 K (0.77 katm) for THF and 240-252.5 K (1.86 katm) for Ar/Xe hydrate. The Z method was found to define the key thermodynamic states with high precision, although required long simulation times with these multicomponent molecular systems to ensure the complete melting required by the method. In contrast, the direct phase coexistence method did bracket the equilibrium temperature with little difficulty, but small thermodynamic driving forces close to phase equilibrium generated long-lived fluctuations, that obscured the precise value of phase coexistence conditions within the bracketed range.
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