Title Effect of hydrogen bonds on polarizability of a water molecule in $(H_{2}O)_{N}(N=6,10,20)$ isomers Author Yang, Fang Wang, Xin Yang, Mingli Krishtal, Alisa Van Alsenoy, Christian Delarue, Patrice Senet, Patrick Faculty/Department Faculty of Sciences. Chemistry Publication type article Publication 2010 Cambridge , 2010 Subject Physics Source (journal) Physical chemistry, chemical physics / Royal Society of Chemistry [London] - Cambridge, 1999, currens Volume/pages 12(2010) :32 , p. 9239-9248 ISSN 1463-9076 1463-9084 ISI 000280708400015 Carrier E Target language English (eng) Full text (Publishers DOI) Affiliation University of Antwerp Abstract Polarizabilities of the low-lying isomers of (H2O)N (N = 6, 10, 20) clusters were computed by using Density Functional Theory. The global polarizabilities of the water isomers were found to depend mainly on the total number of water molecules rather than their cluster structures. We show that this result hides in fact a strong heterogeneity of the molecular polarizability within the different isomers. The global polarizability of a cluster was divided into a sum of molecular contributions by using the Hirshfeld partitioning scheme. We reveal that the value of the local polarizability of a molecule in the cluster is correlated with the number and type of the hydrogen bonds (HB) the molecule forms. Consequently, the molecules located in the interior of the cluster, which usually form more HBs, have smaller molecular polarizabilities than the molecules at the surface, which form less HBs. The contribution of intermolecular interaction to the global polarizability was analyzed by decomposing the cluster polarizability into intra- and inter-molecular contributions. The former measures the polarization within the molecular basin against the external electric field, while the latter is described as the sum of polarizability caused by charge flow through the HBs. These two contributions vary with the cluster size: the intermolecular contribution decreases with the cluster size on the contrary of the intramolecular contribution which increases. E-info https://repository.uantwerpen.be/docman/iruaauth/3b55a3/a657aa0e9ac.pdf http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000280708400015&DestLinkType=RelatedRecords&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848 http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000280708400015&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848 http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000280708400015&DestLinkType=CitingArticles&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848 Handle