PMID- 35423436 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20220416 IS - 2046-2069 (Electronic) IS - 2046-2069 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 16 DP - 2021 Mar 1 TI - Vibrational energy redistribution in crystalline nitromethane simulated by ab initio molecular dynamics. PG - 9557-9567 LID - 10.1039/d0ra10776j [doi] AB - Ab initio molecular dynamics simulations (AIMD) are systematically performed to study the Vibrational Energy Redistribution (VER) in solid nitromethane (NM) by combining normal mode decomposition and short-time Fourier transform technique. After the selective excitations of all fourteen intramolecular vibrational modes above 400 cm(-1), four three-dimensional (3D) excitation and detected vibrational spectra are obtained. The evolution of the kinetic energy proportion of all vibrations are also given and discussed quantitatively. These results show that, as the daughter modes, NO(2) symmetric stretches, CH(3) stretches and bends are usually excited quickly and relatively conspicuously compared with the other vibrations. Interestingly, we found that, although the stretching vibration of the CN bond which is a bridge between the methyl and nitro group can not respond immediately to the selective excitations, it always accumulates the vibrational energy slowly and steadily. Then, the underlying mechanisms are discussed based on the response of vibrational modes in both the time and frequency domain. As a result, we found that anharmonic transfers following symmetry rules which involve the couplings assisted by the overtones and rotations, as well as the transfers among the adjacent modes, play important roles in the VER of solid NM. CI - This journal is (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry. FAU - Lu, Meilin AU - Lu M AD - School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin 150001 China yqyang@hit.edu.cn. AD - National Key Laboratory of Shock Wave and Detonation Physics, Institute of Fluid Physics, China Academy of Engineering Physics Mianyang 621900 China zhengzy@yinhe596.cn. FAU - Zheng, Zhaoyang AU - Zheng Z AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2932-8507 AD - National Key Laboratory of Shock Wave and Detonation Physics, Institute of Fluid Physics, China Academy of Engineering Physics Mianyang 621900 China zhengzy@yinhe596.cn. FAU - Zhu, Gangbei AU - Zhu G AD - National Key Laboratory of Shock Wave and Detonation Physics, Institute of Fluid Physics, China Academy of Engineering Physics Mianyang 621900 China zhengzy@yinhe596.cn. FAU - Wang, Yuxiao AU - Wang Y AD - School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin 150001 China yqyang@hit.edu.cn. FAU - Yang, Yanqiang AU - Yang Y AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2184-8126 AD - School of Physics, Harbin Institute of Technology Harbin 150001 China yqyang@hit.edu.cn. AD - National Key Laboratory of Shock Wave and Detonation Physics, Institute of Fluid Physics, China Academy of Engineering Physics Mianyang 621900 China zhengzy@yinhe596.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20210303 PL - England TA - RSC Adv JT - RSC advances JID - 101581657 PMC - PMC8695419 COIS- There are no conflicts to declare. EDAT- 2022/04/16 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/16 06:01 PMCR- 2021/03/03 CRDT- 2022/04/15 05:25 PHST- 2020/12/23 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/02/02 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/04/15 05:25 [entrez] PHST- 2022/04/16 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/16 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2021/03/03 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - d0ra10776j [pii] AID - 10.1039/d0ra10776j [doi] PST - epublish SO - RSC Adv. 2021 Mar 3;11(16):9557-9567. doi: 10.1039/d0ra10776j. eCollection 2021 Mar 1.