Dissolving salt is not equivalent to applying a pressure on water

Chunyi Zhang; Shuwen Yue; Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos; Michael L. Klein; Xifan Wu

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28538-8

Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Dissolving salt is not equivalent to applying a pressure on water

Chunyi Zhang,
Shuwen Yue,
Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos,
Michael L. Klein,
Xifan Wu

Affiliations

Chunyi Zhang: Department of Physics, Temple University
Shuwen Yue: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University
Athanassios Z. Panagiotopoulos: Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University
Michael L. Klein: Department of Physics, Temple University
Xifan Wu: Department of Physics, Temple University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28538-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

Read online

By advanced machine learning techniques, first-principles simulations find that dissolving salt in water does not change water structure drastically. It is contrary to the notion of “pressure effect” which has been widely applied over past 25 years.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

About the journal