New Kinetic Monte Carlo Model to Study the Dissolution of Quartz

Pablo Martin, Juan J. Gaitero, Jorge S. Dolado, Hegoi Manzano*

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Quartz dissolution is a frequent process in geochemistry and materials science. It is controlled at the atomic scale by the sequential hydrolysis reactions and breakage of siloxane bonds, the surface topography, and the Gibbs free energy difference ΔG between the solid and the solution. Atomistic simulations have provided valuable topographic information about quartz dissolution and reaction energy barriers. However, with the current interpretation of the data, serious discrepancies persist between the predicted dissolution rates Rdis and the macroscopic dissolution activation energy Ea compared to their experimental counterparts. In this work we show that both quantities can be reconciled using a kinetic Monte Carlo (KMC) atomistic model based on bond-by-bond reactions and Rdis and Ea can be jointly reproduced. In addition, the obtained etch pit shapes for different quartz planes are in agreement with the experimentally reported ones: V-shape striations in {001}, rectangular pyramidal pits in {100}, and trapezoidal semipyramidal pits in {101}. We also study the dissolution rate dependence with ΔG by introducing chemical reversibility in the KMC model, obtaining again results in good agreement with experiments. This work highlights the importance of understanding the mechanisms taking place at the nanoscale to describe macroscopic properties and provides the basic ingredients to extend this study to other minerals and/or dissolution conditions.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)516-524
Número de páginas9
PublicaciónACS Earth and Space Chemistry
Volumen5
N.º3
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 18 mar 2021

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Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

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