Issue 36, 2021

Breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein relation in supercooled water: the jump-diffusion perspective

Abstract

Although water is the most ubiquitous liquid it shows many thermodynamic and dynamic anomalies. Some of the anomalies further intensify in the supercooled regime. While many experimental and theoretical studies have focused on the thermodynamic anomalies of supercooled water, fewer studies explored the dynamical anomalies very extensively. This is due to the intricacy of the experimental measurement of the dynamical properties of supercooled water. Violation of the Stokes–Einstein relation (SER), an important relation connecting the diffusion of particles with the viscosity of the medium, is one of the major dynamical anomalies. In absence of experimentally measured viscosity, researchers used to check the validity of SER indirectly using average translational relaxation time or α-relaxation time. Very recently, the viscosity of supercooled water was accurately measured at a wide range of temperatures and pressures. This allowed direct verification of the SER at different temperature-pressure thermodynamic state points. An increasing breakdown of the SER was observed with decreasing temperature. Increasing pressure reduces the extent of breakdown. Although some well-known theories explained the above breakdown, a detailed molecular mechanism was still elusive. Recently, a translational jump-diffusion (TJD) approach has been able to quantitatively explain the breakdown of the SER in pure supercooled water and an aqueous solution of methanol. The objective of this article is to present a detailed and state-of-the-art analysis of the past and present works on the breakdown of SER in supercooled water with a specific focus on the new TJD approach for explaining the breakdown of the SER.

Graphical abstract: Breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein relation in supercooled water: the jump-diffusion perspective

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Article information

Article type
Perspective
Submitted
18 mei 2021
Accepted
06 sep 2021
First published
06 sep 2021

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021,23, 19964-19986

Breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein relation in supercooled water: the jump-diffusion perspective

V. Dubey, S. Dueby and S. Daschakraborty, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2021, 23, 19964 DOI: 10.1039/D1CP02202D

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