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    Free energy approaches for modeling atomic force microscopy in liquids

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    Reischl, Bernhard
    Watkins, M.
    Foster, A.
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Reischl, B. and Watkins, M. and Foster, A. 2013. Free energy approaches for modeling atomic force microscopy in liquids. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 9 (1): pp. 600-608.
    Source Title
    Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation
    DOI
    10.1021/ct3008342
    ISSN
    1549-9618
    School
    Nanochemistry Research Institute
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/45909
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    High resolution atomic force microscopy (AFM) in liquids offers atomic scale insight into the structure at water/solid interfaces and is perhaps the only tool capable of resolving the nature of formed hydration layers. However, convolution between the imaging signal and the tip/surface interactions and hydration layers means that interpretation is far from straightforward. Modeling the complex imaging mechanism of atomic force microscopy in liquids requires calculation of the free energy profile as a function of the distance between AFM tip and surface. Its derivative is the best approximation for the force acting on the AFM tip, including entropic contributions from interactions with water molecules in hydration layers over the surface and around the tip apex. In order to establish a reliable approach for these simulations, we compare two methods of calculating free energy profiles from atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, umbrella sampling and free energy perturbation, on two model surfaces, calcium fluoride and calcium carbonate. Our results demonstrate that both methods effectively provide equivalent free energy profiles but offer different possibilities in terms of efficiency, constraints, and analysis of the free energy components. © 2012 American Chemical Society.

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