Nano-Micro Letters, Volume. 16, Issue 1, 208(2024)

Exploration of the Existence Forms and Patterns of Dissolved Oxygen Molecules in Water

Hewei Yuan1... Yaozhong Zhang2,*, Xiaolu Huang1, Xiwu Zhang3, Jinjin Li1, Yufeng Huang3, Kun Li1, Haotian Weng1, Yang Xu1 and Yafei Zhang1,** |Show fewer author(s)
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  • 1Key Laboratory of Thin Film and Microfabrication (Ministry of Education), Department of Micro/Nano Electronics, School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
  • 2School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, People’s Republic of China
  • 3Jinduo Yuchen Water Environment Engineering Co., Ltd, Shanghai 201702, People’s Republic of China
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    The structure of liquid water is primarily composed of three-dimensional networks of water clusters formed by hydrogen bonds, and dissolved oxygen is one of the most important indicators for assessing water quality. In this work, distilled water with different concentration of dissolved oxygen were prepared, and a clear negative correlation between the size of water clusters and dissolved oxygen concentration was observed. Besides, a phenomenon of rapid absorption and release of oxygen at the water interfaces was unveiled, suggesting that oxygen molecules predominantly exist at the interfaces of water clusters. Oxygen molecules can move rapidly through the interfaces among water clusters, allowing dissolved oxygen to quickly reach a saturation level at certain partial pressure of oxygen and temperature. Further exploration into the mechanism by molecular dynamics simulations of oxygen and water clusters found that oxygen molecules can only exist stably at the interfaces among water clusters. A semi-empirical formula relating the average number of water molecules in a cluster (n) to 17O NMR half-peak width (W) was summarized: n = 0.1 W + 0.85. These findings provide a foundation for exploring the structure and properties of water.

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    Hewei Yuan, Yaozhong Zhang, Xiaolu Huang, Xiwu Zhang, Jinjin Li, Yufeng Huang, Kun Li, Haotian Weng, Yang Xu, Yafei Zhang. Exploration of the Existence Forms and Patterns of Dissolved Oxygen Molecules in Water[J]. Nano-Micro Letters, 2024, 16(1): 208

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    Paper Information

    Category: Research Articles

    Received: Feb. 27, 2024

    Accepted: Apr. 25, 2024

    Published Online: Jan. 23, 2025

    The Author Email: Zhang Yaozhong (zhangragnar@sjtu.edu.cn), Zhang Yafei (yfzhang@sjtu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.1007/s40820-024-01427-z

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