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Initial yield of hydrated electron production from water radiolysis based on first-principles calculation
Takeshi Kai,Tomohiro Toigawa,Yuho Hirata,Tomoya Tezuka,Akinari Yokoya
RSC Advances Pub Date : 03/01/2023 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/D2RA07274B
Abstract

Many scientific insights into water radiolysis have been applied for developing life science, including radiation-induced phenomena, such as DNA damage and mutation induction or carcinogenesis. However, the generation mechanism of free radicals due to radiolysis remains to be fully understood. Consequently, we have encountered a crucial problem in that the initial yields connecting radiation physics to chemistry must be parameterized. We have been challenged in the development of a simulation tool that can unravel the initial free radical yields, from physical interaction by radiation. The presented code enables the first-principles calculation of low energy secondary electrons resulting from the ionization, in which the secondary electron dynamics are simulated while considering dominant collision and polarization effects in water. In this study, using this code, we predicted the yield ratio between ionization and electronic excitation from a delocalization distribution of secondary electrons. The simulation result presented a theoretical initial yield of hydrated electrons. In radiation physics, the initial yield predicted from parameter analysis of radiolysis experiments in radiation chemistry was successfully reproduced. Our simulation code helps realize a reasonable spatiotemporal connection from radiation physics to chemistry, which would contribute to providing new scientific insights for precise understanding of underlying mechanisms of DNA damage induction.

Graphical abstract: Initial yield of hydrated electron production from water radiolysis based on first-principles calculation
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