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Fast estimation of ion-pairing for screening electrolytes: A cluster can approximate a bulk liquid

26 Oct 2021arXiv:2110.14036links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Ajay Muralidharan, Arun Yethiraj

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The propensity for ion-pairing can often dictate the thermodynamic and kinetic properties of electrolyte solutions. Fast and accurate estimates of ion-pairing can thus be extremely valuable for supplementing design and screening efforts for novel electrolytes. Here, we introduce an efficient cluster model to estimate the local ion-pair potential-of-mean-force (PMF) between ionic solutes in electrolytes. The model incorporates an ion-pair and a few layers of explicit solvent in a gas-phase cluster and leverages an enhanced sampling approach to achieve high efficiency and accuracy. We employ harmonic restraints to prevent solvent escape from the cluster and restrict sampling of large inter ion distances. We develop a Cluster Ion-Pair Sampling (CLIPS) tool that implements our cluster model and demonstrate its potential utility for screening simple and poly-electrolyte systems.

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