Nature Communications (Jun 2020)

Dissociation of salts in water under pressure

  • Cunzhi Zhang,
  • Federico Giberti,
  • Emre Sevgen,
  • Juan J. de Pablo,
  • Francois Gygi,
  • Giulia Galli

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16704-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Salts in water at extreme conditions play a fundamental role in determining the properties of the Earthʼs mantle constituents. Here the authors shed light on ion-water and ion-ion interactions for NaCl dissolved in water at conditions relevant to the Earthʼs upper mantle by molecular dynamics simulations.