Mondal, S and Bagchi, B (2021) Comment on "investigation of dielectric constants of water in a nano-confined pore" by H. Zhu, F. Yang, Y. Zhu, A. Li, W. He, J. Huang and G. Li,: RSC Adv., 2020, 10, 8628. In: RSC Advances, 11 (9). pp. 5179-5181.
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Abstract
Zhu et al. recently reported the spatially resolved dielectric profile and value of the average static dielectric constant of water confined inside a silica nanopore. However, the authors neglected the inherent anisotropy and non-local nature of the dielectric response under confinement. Neglect of these important issues produces erroneous results and vastly underestimates the average values. We demonstrate the correct way to incorporate the anisotropy and to obtain the average dielectric constant of cylindrically nanoconfined dipolar fluids. Use of the correct theoretical formalism expectedly shows convergence of the calculated dielectric response to the bulk value with increasing the nanopore size. On the contrary, the equation used by Zhu et al. fails to exhibit the convergence of the same. Instead, decreases as the nanopore size is gradually increased. © The Royal Society of Chemistry.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | RSC Advances |
| Publisher: | Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Additional Information: | The copyright of this article belongs to Royal Society of Chemistry |
| Keywords: | Anisotropy; Silica, Average values; Confined pores; Dielectric profiles; Dielectric response; Dipolar fluids; Inherent anisotropy; Spatially resolved; Static dielectric constants, Nanopores |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Chemical Sciences > Solid State & Structural Chemistry Unit |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2021 05:46 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Feb 2021 05:46 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/68009 |
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