EVIDENCE OF THE EXISTENCE OF DISSOCIATED WATER MOLECULES IN WATER CLUSTERS - COMMUNICATIONS

摘要

The dissociation of water molecules in the water cluster was investigated using ab initio methods and density functional theory. A stable minimum energy configuration of a cluster containing H3O+ and OH- ions was located for a water cluster with five water molecules, (H2O)(5). There are six hydrogen bonds in the dissociated water cluster to form the minimum energy structure. A similar structure with H3O+ and OH- ions was also found for a (H2O)(8) cluster. (C) 1995 American Institute of Physics. [References: 20]