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Nian Q, Sun T, Li Y, Jin S, Liu S, Luo X, Wang Z, Xiong BQ, Cui Z, Ruan D, Ji H, Tao Z, Ren X. Regulating Frozen Electrolyte Structure with Colloidal Dispersion for Low Temperature Aqueous Batteries. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202217671. [PMID: 36592001 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202217671] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2022] [Revised: 12/31/2022] [Accepted: 01/02/2023] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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Electrolyte freezing under low temperatures is a critical challenge for the development of aqueous batteries (ABs). While lowering the freezing point of the electrolyte has caught major research efforts, limited attention has been paid to the structural evolution during the electrolyte freezing process and regulating the frozen electrolyte structure for low temperature ABs. Here, we reveal the formation process of interconnected liquid regions for ion transport in frozen electrolytes with various in situ variable-temperature technologies. More importantly, the low-temperature performance of ABs was significantly improved with the colloidal electrolyte design using graphene oxide quantum dots (GOQDs), which effectively inhibits the growth of ice crystals and expands the interconnected liquid regions for facial ion transport. This work provides new insights and a promising strategy for the electrolyte design of low-temperature ABs.
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- Qingshun Nian
- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China
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- Laboratory of Advanced Energy Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China
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- Laboratory of Advanced Energy Chemistry (Ministry of Education), Nankai University, Tianjin, 300071, China
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- School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, 230026, China
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Sacchi M, Tamtögl A. Water adsorption and dynamics on graphene and other 2D materials: Computational and experimental advances. ADVANCES IN PHYSICS: X 2022; 8:2134051. [PMID: 36816858 PMCID: PMC7614201 DOI: 10.1080/23746149.2022.2134051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023] Open
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The interaction of water and surfaces, at molecular level, is of critical importance for understanding processes such as corrosion, friction, catalysis and mass transport. The significant literature on interactions with single crystal metal surfaces should not obscure unknowns in the unique behaviour of ice and the complex relationships between adsorption, diffusion and long-range inter-molecular interactions. Even less is known about the atomic-scale behaviour of water on novel, non-metallic interfaces, in particular on graphene and other 2D materials. In this manuscript, we review recent progress in the characterisation of water adsorption on 2D materials, with a focus on the nano-material graphene and graphitic nanostructures; materials which are of paramount importance for separation technologies, electrochemistry and catalysis, to name a few. The adsorption of water on graphene has also become one of the benchmark systems for modern computational methods, in particular dispersion-corrected density functional theory (DFT). We then review recent experimental and theoretical advances in studying the single-molecular motion of water at surfaces, with a special emphasis on scattering approaches as they allow an unparalleled window of observation to water surface motion, including diffusion, vibration and self-assembly.
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- M. Sacchi
- Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 7XH, UK
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- Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Austria
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Wassermobilität in der grenzflächeninduzierten Schmelzschicht von Eis/Tonmineral‐Nanokompositen. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.202013125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Li H, Mars J, Lohstroh W, Koza MM, Butt H, Mezger M. Water Mobility in the Interfacial Liquid Layer of Ice/Clay Nanocomposites. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2021; 60:7697-7702. [PMID: 33238050 PMCID: PMC8048683 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202013125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 11/11/2020] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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At solid/ice interfaces, a premelting layer is formed at temperatures below the melting point of bulk water. However, the structural and dynamic properties within the premelting layer have been a topic of intense debate. Herein, we determined the translational diffusion coefficient Dt of water in ice/clay nanocomposites serving as model systems for permafrost by quasi-elastic neutron scattering. Below the bulk melting point, a rapid decrease of Dt is found for charged hydrophilic vermiculite, uncharged hydrophilic kaolin, and more hydrophobic talc, reaching plateau values below -4 °C. At this temperature, Dt in the premelting layer is reduced up to a factor of two compared to supercooled bulk water. Adjacent to charged vermiculite the lowest water mobility was observed, followed by kaolin and the more hydrophobic talc. Results are explained by the intermolecular water interactions with different clay surfaces and interfacial segregation of the low-density liquid water (LDL) component.
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- Hailong Li
- Department of Physics at InterfacesMax Planck Institute for Polymer ResearchAckermannweg 1055128MainzGermany
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- Department of Physics at InterfacesMax Planck Institute for Polymer ResearchAckermannweg 1055128MainzGermany
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- Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ)Technische Universität MünchenLichtenbergstrasse 185748GarchingGermany
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- Institut Laue-Langevin71 Avenue des Martyrs, CS 2015638042GrenobleFrance
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- Department of Physics at InterfacesMax Planck Institute for Polymer ResearchAckermannweg 1055128MainzGermany
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- Department of Physics at InterfacesMax Planck Institute for Polymer ResearchAckermannweg 1055128MainzGermany
- Department of Physics, Dynamics of Condensed SystemsUniversity of ViennaBoltzmanngasse 51090WienAustria
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Wang Y, Cheng L, Wen S, Zhou S, Wang Z, Deng L, Mao HQ, Cui W, Zhang H. Ice-Inspired Superlubricated Electrospun Nanofibrous Membrane for Preventing Tissue Adhesion. NANO LETTERS 2020; 20:6420-6428. [PMID: 32813534 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Inspired by the superlubricated surface (SLS) of ice, which consists of an ultrathin and contiguous layer of surface-bound water, we built a SLS on the polycaprolactone (PCL)/poly(2-methacryloxyethylphosphorylcholine) (PMPC) composite nanofibrous membrane via electrospinning under controlled relative humidity (RH). The zwitterionic PMPC on the nanofiber provided a surface layer of bound water, thus generating a hydration lubrication surface. Prepared under 20% RH, electrospun PCL/PMPC nanofibers reached a minimum coefficient of friction (COF) of about 0.12 when the weight ratio of PMPC to PCL was 0.1. At a higher RH, a SLS with an ultralow COF of less than 0.05 was formed on the composite nanofibers. The high stability of the SLS hydration layer on the engineered nanofibrous membrane effectively inhibited fibroblast adhesion and markedly reduced tissue adhesion during tendon repair in vivo. This work demonstrates the great potential of this ice-inspired SLS approach in tissue adhesion-prevention applications.
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- Yi Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Bone and Joint Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Technologies of Materials, Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 610031, P.R. China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Bone and Joint Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, P.R. China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Bone and Joint Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, P.R. China
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- Institute for NanoBioTechnology, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Translational Tissue Engineering Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, United States
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Bone and Joint Diseases, Shanghai Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200025, P.R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Tribology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P.R. China
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Tamtögl A, Sacchi M, Avidor N, Calvo-Almazán I, Townsend PSM, Bremholm M, Hofmann P, Ellis J, Allison W. Nanoscopic diffusion of water on a topological insulator. Nat Commun 2020; 11:278. [PMID: 31937778 PMCID: PMC6959239 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-14064-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Accepted: 12/13/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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The microscopic motion of water is a central question, but gaining experimental information about the interfacial dynamics of water in fields such as catalysis, biophysics and nanotribology is challenging due to its ultrafast motion, and the complex interplay of inter-molecular and molecule-surface interactions. Here we present an experimental and computational study of the nanoscale-nanosecond motion of water at the surface of a topological insulator (TI), Bi[Formula: see text]Te[Formula: see text]. Understanding the chemistry and motion of molecules on TI surfaces, while considered a key to design and manufacturing for future applications, has hitherto been hardly addressed experimentally. By combining helium spin-echo spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations, we are able to obtain a general insight into the diffusion of water on Bi[Formula: see text]Te[Formula: see text]. Instead of Brownian motion, we find an activated jump diffusion mechanism. Signatures of correlated motion suggest unusual repulsive interactions between the water molecules. From the lineshape broadening we determine the diffusion coefficient, the diffusion energy and the pre-exponential factor.
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- Anton Tamtögl
- Institute of Experimental Physics, Graz University of Technology, 8010, Graz, Austria.
- Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
- Material Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, 60439, IL, USA
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- Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University, 123 Bevier Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, USA
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- Center for Materials Crystallography, Department of Chemistry and iNANO, Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus, Denmark
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, 8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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- Cavendish Laboratory, J. J. Thompson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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Ishiyama T, Morita A. Nuclear Quantum Effect on the χ (2) Band Shape of Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectra of Normal and Deuterated Water Surfaces. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:5070-5075. [PMID: 31414814 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In the vibrational sum frequency generation (VSFG) spectrum of the air/water interface, there is an open question whether the imaginary spectrum of nonlinear susceptibility Im[χ(2)] has a positive band in the low-frequency tail of the OH stretching band. We previously elucidated by molecular dynamics (MD) analysis of the VSFG spectrum that the positive band could arise from particularly strong hydrogen-bonded water pairs at the water surface. This mechanism should be emphasized in OD stretching in comparison to OH, because OD forms stronger hydrogen bonds. Therefore, we calculated the Im[χ(2)] spectra of normal and deuterated water surfaces by MD simulation including the nuclear quantum effect and demonstrated that the low-frequency positive feature could arise in the tail of the OD stretching band. This positive feature is sensitive to the oxygen-oxygen distance of hydrogen-bonding pairs at the surface and hence the temperature and disappears with increasing temperature.
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- Tatsuya Ishiyama
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, University of Toyama, Toyama 930-8555, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry Graduate School of Science Tohoku University Sendai 980-8578, Japan
- Elements Strategy Initiative for Catalysts and Batteries (ESICB), Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8520, Japan
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Yamaguchi S, Suzuki Y, Nojima Y, Otosu T. Perspective on sum frequency generation spectroscopy of ice surfaces and interfaces. Chem Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphys.2019.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Mitsui T, Aoki K. Fluctuation spectroscopy of surface melting of ice with and without impurities. Phys Rev E 2019; 99:010801. [PMID: 30780264 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.99.010801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Water is ubiquitous, and the surface properties of ice have been studied for some time, due to their importance. A liquidlike layer (LLL) is known to exist on ice, below the melting point. We use surface thermal fluctuation spectroscopy to study the LLL, including its thickness, for pure ice, and for ice with impurities. We find that the properties of the LLL are experimentally those of liquid water, with thickness much smaller than previous results. We also find that impurities cause the LLL to be thicker, and quite inhomogeneous, with properties depending on the dopant.
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- Takahisa Mitsui
- Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences and Department of Physics, Hiyoshi, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8521, Japan
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- Research and Education Center for Natural Sciences and Department of Physics, Hiyoshi, Keio University, Yokohama 223-8521, Japan
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Murata KI, Nagashima K, Sazaki G. How Do Ice Crystals Grow inside Quasiliquid Layers? PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2019; 122:026102. [PMID: 30720327 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.122.026102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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A microscopic understanding of crystal-melt interfaces, inseparably involved in the dynamics of crystallization, is a long-standing challenge in condensed matter physics. Here, using an advanced optical microscopy, we directly visualize growing interfaces between ice basal faces and quasiliquid layers (QLLs) during ice crystal growth. This system serves as a model for studying the molecular incorporation process of the crystal growth from a supercooled melt (the so-called melt growth), often hidden by inevitable latent heat diffusion and/or the extremely high crystal growth rate. We reveal that the growth of basal faces inside QLLs proceeds layer by layer via two-dimensional nucleation of monomolecular islands. We also find that the lateral growth rate of the islands is well described by the Wilson-Frenkel law, taking into account the slowing down of the dynamics of water molecules interfaced with ice. These results clearly indicate that, after averaging surface molecular fluctuations, the layer by layer stacking still survives even at the topmost layer on basal faces, which supports the kink-step-terrace picture even for the melt growth.
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- Ken-Ichiro Murata
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, N19-W8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, N19-W8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
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- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, N19-W8, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0819, Japan
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Li H, Bier M, Mars J, Weiss H, Dippel AC, Gutowski O, Honkimäki V, Mezger M. Interfacial premelting of ice in nano composite materials. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2019; 21:3734-3741. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp05604h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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We present a quantitative description of ice premelting in permafrost model systems. Experimental data on the interfacial premelting in ice/clay nano composites was obtained by high energy X-ray diffraction.
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- Hailong Li
- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
- 55128 Mainz
- Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
- 70569 Stuttgart
- Germany
- Institute for Theoretical Physics IV
- University of Stuttgart
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
- 55128 Mainz
- Germany
- Institute of Physics
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
- 55128 Mainz
- Germany
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- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
- 22607 Hamburg
- Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
- 55128 Mainz
- Germany
- Institute of Physics
- Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
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García-Álvarez J, Hevia E, Capriati V. The Future of Polar Organometallic Chemistry Written in Bio-Based Solvents and Water. Chemistry 2018; 24:14854-14863. [PMID: 29917274 DOI: 10.1002/chem.201802873] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/05/2018] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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There is a strong imperative to reduce the release of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) into the environment, and many efforts are currently being made to replace conventional hazardous VOCs in favour of safe, green and bio-renewable reaction media that are not based on crude petroleum. Recent ground-breaking studies from a few laboratories worldwide have shown that both Grignard and (functionalised) organolithium reagents, traditionally handled under strict exclusion of air and humidity and in anhydrous VOCs, can smoothly promote both nucleophilic additions to unsaturated substrates and nucleophilic substitutions in water and other bio-based solvents (glycerol, deep eutectic solvents), competitively with protonolysis, at room temperature and under air. The chemistry of polar organometallics in the above protic media is a complex phenomenon influenced by several factors, and understanding its foundational character is stimulating in the perspective of the development of a sustainable organometallic chemistry.
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- Joaquín García-Álvarez
- Laboratorio de Compuestos Organometálicos y Catálisis, Departamento de Química Orgánica e Inorganica (IUQOEM), Instituto, Universitario de Química Organometálica "Enrique Moles", Facultad de Química, Universidad de Oviedo, 33071, Oviedo, Spain
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- WestCHEM, Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XL, UK
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- Dipartimento di Farmacia-Scienze del Farmaco, Università di Bari "Aldo Moro", Consorzio C.I.N.M.P.I.S., Via E. Orabona, 4, 70125, Bari, Italy
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Premelting of ice at temperatures below 0 °C is of fundamental importance for environmental processes. Various experimental techniques have been used to investigate the temperature at which liquid-like water first appears at the ice-vapor interface, reporting onset temperatures from -160 to -2 °C. The signals that identify liquid-like order at the ice-vapor interface in these studies, however, do not show a sharp initiation with temperature. That is at odds with the expected first-order nature of surface phase transitions, and consistent with recent large-scale molecular simulations that show the first premelted layer to be sparse and to develop continuously over a wide range of temperatures. Here we perform a thermodynamic analysis to elucidate the origin of the continuous formation of the first layer of liquid at the ice-vapor interface. We conclude that a negative value of the line tension of the ice-liquid-vapor three-phase contact line is responsible for the continuous character of the transition and the sparse nature of the liquid-like domains in the incomplete first layer.
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- Yuqing Qiu
- Department of Chemistry , The University of Utah , Salt Lake City , Utah 84112-0580 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry , The University of Utah , Salt Lake City , Utah 84112-0580 , United States
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