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Wang X, Balwani A, Tyagi M, Davis EM. Capturing Hydrated Vanadium Ion Dynamics in Ionomer Nanocomposites Used for Redox Flow Batteries. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:5766-5780. [PMID: 38829925 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c01203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2024]
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Herein, we employed high-flux backscattering spectroscopy to capture for the first time the motions of hydrated vanadyl ions in ionomer nanocomposites prepared by both solution-cast and in situ sol-gel condensation methods. Both local and jump diffusion coefficients of the hydrated vanadyl (VO2+) ions as well as the dynamic length scales of ion motions and the fraction of immobile hydrogen atoms were extracted from the scattering spectra. Notably, for solution-cast membranes, the jump and local diffusion coefficients of hydrated VO2+ ions were seen to decrease by over 10- and 4-fold, respectively, with the introduction of 10 mass % silica nanoparticles (SiNPs) compared to their neat counterparts. Further, the VO2+ diffusion coefficients were observed to decrease with thermal annealing, though the impact of annealing was less significant than that seen with the introduction of SiNPs. Finally, in general, thermal annealing and the introduction of SiNPs had no measurable impact on the fraction of immobile hydrogen atoms in both solution-cast and sol-gel ionomer nanocomposites. The data observed in this work, in conjunction with previous structural and chain dynamics studies on hydrated Nafion-SiNP nanocomposites, suggest that a combination of stiffening of the segmental dynamics as well as a decrease in available sulfonic acid groups facilitating transport leads to an overall decrease in mobility of vanadium ions in these ionomer nanocomposites.
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- Xueting Wang
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
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- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Neutron Research (NCNR), Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
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Mohottalalage SS, Kosgallana C, Senanayake M, Wijesinghe S, Osti NC, Perahia D. Molecular Insight into the Effects of Clustering on the Dynamics of Ionomers in Solutions. ACS Macro Lett 2023; 12:1118-1124. [PMID: 37493602 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.3c00353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/27/2023]
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Ionizable groups tethered to polymers enable their many current and potential applications. However, these functionalities drive the formation of physical networks through clustering of the ionic groups, resulting in constrained dynamics of the macromolecules. Understanding the molecular origin of this hindrance remains a critical fundamental question, whose solution will directly impact the processing of ionizable polymers from molecules to viable materials. Here, using quasielastic neutron scattering accompanied by molecular dynamics simulations, segmental dynamics of slightly sulfonated polystyrene is studied in solutions as the cohesion of the ionic assemblies is tuned. We find that in cyclohexane the ionic assemblies act as centers of confinement, affecting dynamics both on macroscopic lengths and in the vicinity of the ionic assemblies. Addition of a small amount of ethanol affects the packing of the ionizable groups within the assemblies, which in turn enhances the chain dynamics.
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- Supun S Mohottalalage
- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina 26808, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, United States
- Department of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29631, United States
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Elliott JP, Osti NC, Tyagi M, Mamontov E, Liu L, Serrano JM, Cao K, Liu G. Exceptionally Fast Ion Diffusion in Block Copolymer-Based Porous Carbon Fibers. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:36980-36986. [PMID: 35916606 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c12755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Confined ionic liquids in hydrophilic porous media have disrupted lattices and can be divided into two layers: An immobile ion layer adheres to the pore surfaces, and an inner layer exhibits faster mobility than the bulk. In this work, we report the first study of ionic liquids confined in block copolymer-based porous carbon fibers (PCFs) synthesized from polyacrylonitrile-block-polymethyl methacrylate (PAN-b-PMMA). The PCFs contain a network of unimodal mesopores of 13.6 nm in diameter and contain more hydrophilic surface functional groups than previously studied porous carbon. Elastic neutron scattering shows no freezing point for 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate ([BMIM]BF4) confined in PCFs down to 20 K. Quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS) is used to measure the diffusion of [BMIM]BF4 confined in PCFs, which, surprisingly, is 7-fold faster than in the bulk. The unprecedentedly high ion diffusion remarks that PCFs hold exceptional potential for use in electrochemical catalysis, energy conversion, and storage.
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- John P Elliott
- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008 MS6455, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department of Materials Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008 MS6455, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), Avenida Mestre José Veiga, 4715-330 Braga, Portugal
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
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- Macromolecules Innovation Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
- Macromolecules Innovation Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States
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Osti NC, Thapaliya BP, Matsumoto RA, Bansal A, Lin X, Cummings PT, Tyagi M, Dai S, Mamontov E. Direct Correlation of the Salt-Reduced Diffusivities of Organic Solvents with the Solvent's Mole Fraction. J Phys Chem Lett 2022; 13:2845-2850. [PMID: 35324215 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.2c00487] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) in organic solvents (especially propylene carbonate) has demonstrated extraordinary pseudocapacitive performance as an electrolyte in the supercapacitor configuration ( Nat. Energy 2019, 4, 241-248). However, the influence of the solvated ions on the diffusivity of the solvent molecules is yet to be understood. We examine the impact of LiTFSI on the diffusivity in five organic solvents: acetonitrile (ACN), tetrahydrofuran (THF), methanol (MeOH), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), and propylene carbonate (PC) using a combination of neutron scattering, conductivity measurements, and molecular dynamics simulations. The extent of the diffusivity reduction in the concentration regime of ≤1 M directly correlates with the solvent mole fraction at which the solvation shells around Li+ ions are of similar size in all the solvents, resulting in a universal ∼50% reduction in the solvent diffusivity. These results provide guidance for formulation of the new electrolytes to enhance the performance of energy storage devices.
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- Naresh C Osti
- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO BOX 2008 MS6455, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Institute for Advanced Materials & Manufacturing and Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 2201 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 2201 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 2201 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 2201 West End Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department of Materials Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Institute for Advanced Materials & Manufacturing and Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, PO BOX 2008 MS6455, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Wolanin J, Michel L, Tabacchioni D, Zanotti JM, Peters J, Imaz I, Coasne B, Plazanet M, Picard C. Heterogeneous Microscopic Dynamics of Intruded Water in a Superhydrophobic Nanoconfinement: Neutron Scattering and Molecular Modeling. J Phys Chem B 2021; 125:10392-10399. [PMID: 34492185 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c06791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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With their strong confining porosity and versatile surface chemistry, zeolitic imidazolate frameworks-including the prototypical ZIF-8-display exceptional properties for various applications. In particular, the forced intrusion of water at high pressure (∼25 MPa) into ZIF-8 nanopores is of interest for energy storage. Such a system reveals also ideal to study experimentally water dynamics and thermodynamics in an ultrahydrophobic confinement. Here, we report on neutron scattering experiments to probe the molecular dynamics of water within ZIF-8 nanopores under high pressure up to 38 MPa. In addition to an overall confinement-induced slowing down, we provide evidence for strong dynamical heterogeneities with different underlying molecular dynamics. Using complementary molecular simulations, these heterogeneities are found to correspond to different microscopic mechanisms inherent to vicinal molecules located in strongly adsorbing sites (ligands) and other molecules nanoconfined in the cavity center. These findings unveil a complex microscopic dynamics, which results from the combination of surface residence times and exchanges between the cavity surface and center.
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- J Wolanin
- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, 38000 Grenoble, France.,Institut Laue Langevin, 38042 Grenoble, France
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- Catalan Insitute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 08193 Barcelona, Spain
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, 38000 Grenoble, France
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Bergamasco L, Morciano M, Fasano M. Effect of water nanoconfinement on the dynamic properties of paramagnetic colloidal complexes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:16948-16957. [PMID: 34338258 DOI: 10.1039/d1cp00708d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The anomalous behavior of confined water at the nanoscale has remarkable implications in a number of nanotechnological applications. In this work, we analyze the effect of water self-diffusion on the dynamic properties of a solvated gadolinium-based paramagnetic complex, typically used for contrast enhancement in magnetic resonance imaging. In particular, we examine the effect of silica-based nanostructures on water behavior in the proximity of the paramagnetic complex via atomistic simulations, and interpret the resulting tumbling dynamics in the light of the local solvent modification based on the Lipari-Szabo formalism and of the fractional Stokes-Einstein relation. It is found that the local water confinement induces an increased "stiffness" on the outer sphere of the paramagnetic complex, which eventually reduces its tumbling properties. These model predictions are found to explain well the relaxivity enhancement observed experimentally by confining paramagnetic complexes into porous nanoconstructs, and thus offer mechanistic guidelines to design improved contrast agents for imaging applications.
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- Luca Bergamasco
- Department of Energy, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy.
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Osti NC, Thapaliya BP, Dai S, Tyagi M, Mamontov E. Strong Enhancement of Nanoconfined Water Mobility by a Structure Breaking Salt. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:4038-4044. [PMID: 33881871 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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For the majority of the water present on earth, the two most important factors influencing its behavior are confinement, in either inorganic or organic matrixes, and the presence of solutes. Here, we investigate the effect of confinement in 3 nm pores on water diffusivity in aqueous solutions with archetypical solutes, a structure making (kosmotrope) NaCl and a structure breaking (chaotrope) KCl, up to 1.0 M in concentration. The water diffusivity in bulk aqueous solutions in such a concentration range is known to decrease very slightly in the presence of NaCl and increase very slightly in the presence of KCl. However, here we observe the water diffusivity in confined H2O-KCl increases by a factor of 2 compared to the pure water diffusivity in the same confinement. This unusually strong cumulative effect of confinement and a structure breaking additive may have profound implications for the mobility and transport of aqueous species in nature.
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- Naresh C Osti
- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, United States
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- Chemical Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37916, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department of Materials Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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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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Ganeshan K, Shin YK, Osti NC, Sun Y, Prenger K, Naguib M, Tyagi M, Mamontov E, Jiang DE, van Duin ACT. Structure and Dynamics of Aqueous Electrolytes Confined in 2D-TiO 2/Ti 3C 2T 2 MXene Heterostructures. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:58378-58389. [PMID: 33337151 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c17536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The synthesis of heterostructures of different two-dimensional (2D) materials offers an approach to combine advantages of different materials constituting the heterostructure and ultimately enhance their performance for applications such as electrochemical energy storage, achieving high energy, and high-power densities. Understanding the behavior of ions and solvents in confinement between these dissimilar layers is critical to understand their performance and control. Considering aqueous electrolytes, we explore the heterostructure of 2D lepidocrocite-type TiO2 (2D-TiO2) and hydroxylated or O-terminated Ti3C2 MXene using ReaxFF molecular dynamics simulations and elastic/quasielastic neutron scattering techniques. Simulating a bilayer water intercalation, we find that the extent of interlayer hydration is impacted most by the surface terminations on the MXene and is marginally affected by 2D-TiO2. However, the introduction of 2D-TiO2 decreases the water self-diffusion due to the notch sites (i.e., surface oxygen ridges) entrapping water molecules. Intercalating alkali cations into the heterostructures, we find that Li+ is predominantly adsorbed at the 2D-TiO2 surface instead of the MXenes with the preferential occupation of the notch sites. In contrast, Na+ forms a planar solvation with water, while K+ is adsorbed both at the O-terminated MXene and 2D-TiO2. This behavior is altered when OH-terminated MXene is involved-the repulsion from the protons on the MXene surface forces the K+ ions to be adsorbed exclusively to 2D-TiO2, while Na+ retains some of its solvation in the water layer due to its smaller size. In OH-terminated MXenes, we see a consistent transfer of protons from the MXene surface toward 2D-TiO2, implying a greater capacity to store protons in the heterostructures. Of the three cations simulated, Na+ hinders the proton migration the least and Li+ the most because of its position near the 2D-TiO2 surface. Therefore, 2D-TiO2/MXene heterostructures are likely to exhibit a higher energy density but lower power density, especially with Na+ intercalation.
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- Karthik Ganeshan
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, United States
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- Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department of Materials Science, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, California 92521, United States
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, State College, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Cui J, Kobayashi T, Sacci RL, Matsumoto RA, Cummings PT, Pruski M. Diffusivity and Structure of Room Temperature Ionic Liquid in Various Organic Solvents. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:9931-9937. [PMID: 33086001 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c07582] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) hold promise for applications in electric double layer capacitors (EDLCs), owing to a much wider potential window, lower vapor pressure, and better thermal and chemical stabilities compared to conventional aqueous and organic electrolytes. However, because the low diffusivity of ions in neat RTILs negates the EDLCs' advantage of high power density, the ionic liquids are often used in mixture with organic solvents. In this study, we measured the diffusivity of cations and anions in RTIL, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl) ([BMIM+][TFSI-]), mixed with 10 organic solvents, by using the pulsed-field gradient NMR method. The ion diffusivity was found to follow that of neat solvents and in most studied solvents showed an excellent agreement with the predicted values reported in the recent molecular dynamics (MD) study [Thompson, M. W.; J. Phys. Chem. B 2019, 123, 1340-1347]. In two solvents consisting of long-chain molecules, however, the MD simulations predictions slightly underestimated the ionic diffusivities. The degree of ion dissociation was also estimated for each solvent by comparing the ionic conductivity with the molar conductivity derived from the diffusion measurements. The degree of ion dissociation and the hydrodynamic radius of ions suggest that the ions are coordinated by ∼1 solvent molecule. The scarcity of solvent-ion interactions explains the fact that the diffusivity of ions in the mixture significantly depends on the viscosity of the solvent.
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- Jinlei Cui
- U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Multiscale Modeling and Simulation Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235, United States
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- U.S. DOE Ames Laboratory, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States.,Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, United States
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Ok S, Hwang B, Liu T, Welch S, Sheets JM, Cole DR, Liu KH, Mou CY. Fluid Behavior in Nanoporous Silica. Front Chem 2020; 8:734. [PMID: 33005606 PMCID: PMC7485247 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2020.00734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2019] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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We investigate dynamics of water (H2O) and methanol (CH3OH and CH3OD) inside mesoporous silica materials with pore diameters of 4.0, 2.5, and 1.5 nm using low-field (LF) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxometry. Experiments were conducted to test the effects of pore size, pore volume, type of fluid, fluid/solid ratio, and temperature on fluid dynamics. Longitudinal relaxation times (T1) and transverse relaxation times (T2) were obtained for the above systems. We observe an increasing deviation in confined fluid behavior compared to that of bulk fluid with decreasing fluid-to-solid ratio. Our results show that the surface area-to-volume ratio is a critical parameter compared to pore diameter in the relaxation dynamics of confined water. An increase in temperature for the range between 25 and 50°C studied did not influence T2 times of confined water significantly. However, when the temperature was increased, T1 times of water confined in both silica-2.5 nm and silica-1.5 nm increased, while those of water in silica-4.0 nm did not change. Reductions in both T1 and T2 values as a function of fluid-to-solid ratio were independent of confined fluid species studied here. The parameter T1/T2 indicates that H2O interacts more strongly with the pore walls of silica-4.0 nm than CH3OH and CH3OD.
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- Salim Ok
- School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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- School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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- School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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- School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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- School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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- School of Earth Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
- Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
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- Shull Wollan Center-A Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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High-temperature and high-pressure NMR investigations of low viscous fluids confined in mesoporous systems. Z PHYS CHEM 2020. [DOI: 10.1515/zpch-2019-1510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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In this contribution, the relaxation and diffusional behaviors of low viscous fluids, water and methanol confined into mesoporous silica and controlled size pore glass were investigated. The engineered porous systems are relevant to geologically important subsurface energy materials. The engineered porous proxies were characterized by Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface analyzer, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, and electron microscopy (EM) to determine surface area, pore-wall protonation and morphology of these materials, respectively. The confined behavior of the low viscous fluids was studied by varying pore diameter, fluid-to-solid ratio, temperature, and pressure, and then compared to bulk liquid state. Both relaxation and diffusion behaviors for the confined fluids showed increasing deviation from pure bulk fluids as the fluid-to-solid ratio was decreased, and surface-to-volume ratio (S/V) was varied. Variable pressure deuteron NMR relaxation of confined D2O and confined methanol, deuterated at the hydroxyl or methyl positions, were performed to exploit the sensitivity of the deuteron quadrupole moment to molecular rotation. The methanol results demonstrated greater pressure dependence than those for water only in bulk. The deviations from bulk liquid behavior arise from different reasons such as confinement and the interactions between confined fluid and the nano-pore wall. The results of the present report give insight into the behavior of low viscosity fluid in nano-confined geometries under different state conditions.
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Salassi S, Cardellini A, Asinari P, Ferrando R, Rossi G. Water dynamics affects thermal transport at the surface of hydrophobic and hydrophilic irradiated nanoparticles. NANOSCALE ADVANCES 2020; 2:3181-3190. [PMID: 36134276 PMCID: PMC9419265 DOI: 10.1039/d0na00094a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2020] [Accepted: 04/15/2020] [Indexed: 05/10/2023]
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Plasmonic nanoparticles, such as Au nanoparticles (NPs) coated with bio-compatible ligands, are largely studied and tested in nanomedicine for photothermal therapies. Nevertheless, no clear physical interpretation is currently available to explain thermal transport at the nanoparticle surface, where a solid-liquid (core-ligand) interface is coupled to a liquid-liquid (ligand-solvent) interface. This lack of understanding makes it difficult to control the temperature increase imposed by the irradiated NPs to the surrounding biological environment, and it has so far hindered the rational design of the NP surface chemistry. Here, atomistic molecular dynamics simulations are used to show that thermal transport at the nanoparticle surface depends dramatically on solvent diffusivity at the ligand-solvent interface. Furthermore, using physical indicators of water confinement around hydrophobic and hydrophilic ligands, a predictive model is developed to allow the engineering of NP coatings with the desired thermal conductivities at the nanoscale.
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- Sebastian Salassi
- Physics Department, University of Genoa via Dodecaneso 33 16146 Genoa Italy
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- Department of Energy, Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24 10129 Torino Italy
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- Department of Energy, Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24 10129 Torino Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Genoa via Dodecaneso 33 16146 Genoa Italy
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- Physics Department, University of Genoa via Dodecaneso 33 16146 Genoa Italy
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Bergamasco L, Alberghini M, Fasano M. Nano-metering of Solvated Biomolecules Or Nanoparticles from Water Self-Diffusivity in Bio-inspired Nanopores. NANOSCALE RESEARCH LETTERS 2019; 14:336. [PMID: 31659492 PMCID: PMC6816642 DOI: 10.1186/s11671-019-3178-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2019] [Accepted: 10/04/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Taking inspiration from the structure of diatom algae frustules and motivated by the need for new detecting strategies for emerging nanopollutants in water, we analyze the potential of nanoporous silica tablets as metering devices for the concentration of biomolecules or nanoparticles in water. The concept relies on the different diffusion behavior that water molecules exhibit in bulk and nanoconfined conditions, e.g., in nanopores. In this latter situation, the self-diffusion coefficient of water reduces according to the geometry and surface properties of the pore and to the concentration of suspended biomolecules or nanoparticles in the pore, as extensively demonstrated in a previous study. Thus, for a given pore-liquid system, the self-diffusivity of water in nanopores filled with biomolecules or nanoparticles provides an indirect measure of their concentration. Using molecular dynamics and previous results from the literature, we demonstrate the correlation between the self-diffusion coefficient of water in silica nanopores and the concentration of proteins or nanoparticles contained therein. Finally, we estimate the time required for the nanoparticles to fill the nanopores, in order to assess the practical feasibility of the overall nano-metering protocol. Results show that the proposed approach may represent an alternative method for assessing the concentration of some classes of nanopollutants or biomolecules in water.
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- Luca Bergamasco
- Department of Energy, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino, 10129 Italy
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- Department of Energy, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino, 10129 Italy
- Clean Water Center, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino, 10129 Italy
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- Department of Energy, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino, 10129 Italy
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Baum M, Rieutord F, Juranyi F, Rey C, Rébiscoul D. Dynamical and Structural Properties of Water in Silica Nanoconfinement: Impact of Pore Size, Ion Nature, and Electrolyte Concentration. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:10780-10794. [PMID: 31345036 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In this study, we characterized the structure and the dynamics at a picosecond scale of water molecules in aqueous solutions with cations having various kosmotropic properties (XCl2 where X = Ba2+, Ca2+, and Mg2+) confined in highly ordered mesoporous silica (MCM-41 and grafted MCM-41) by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and quasi-elastic neutron scattering. We pinpointed the critical pore size and the electrolyte concentration at which the influence of the ion nature becomes the main factor affecting the water properties. These results suggest that whatever the ions kosmotropic properties, for pore sizes ϕp < 2.6 nm and [XCl2] ≤ 1 M, the water dynamics is mainly slowed down by the size of the confinement. For pore sizes of 6.6 nm, the water dynamics depends on the concentration and kosmotropic properties of the ion more than on the confinement. The water properties within the interfacial layer were also assessed and related to the surface ion excesses obtained by sorption isotherms. We showed that, for pore sizes ϕp ≥ 2.6 nm, the surface ion excess at the pore surface is the main driver affecting the structural properties of water molecules and their dynamics within the interfacial layer.
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- Markus Baum
- CEA, ICSM - UMR 5257 CEA-CNRS-UM-ENSCM , 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze Cedex, France
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- Paul-Scherrer-Institute , 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- CEA, ICSM - UMR 5257 CEA-CNRS-UM-ENSCM , 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze Cedex, France
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- CEA, ICSM - UMR 5257 CEA-CNRS-UM-ENSCM , 30207 Bagnols-sur-Cèze Cedex, France
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Foglia F, Hazael R, Meersman F, Wilding MC, Sakai VG, Rogers S, Bove LE, Koza MM, Moulin M, Haertlein M, Forsyth VT, McMillan PF. In Vivo Water Dynamics in Shewanella oneidensis Bacteria at High Pressure. Sci Rep 2019; 9:8716. [PMID: 31213614 PMCID: PMC6581952 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-44704-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2019] [Accepted: 05/15/2019] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Following observations of survival of microbes and other life forms in deep subsurface environments it is necessary to understand their biological functioning under high pressure conditions. Key aspects of biochemical reactions and transport processes within cells are determined by the intracellular water dynamics. We studied water diffusion and rotational relaxation in live Shewanella oneidensis bacteria at pressures up to 500 MPa using quasi-elastic neutron scattering (QENS). The intracellular diffusion exhibits a significantly greater slowdown (by −10–30%) and an increase in rotational relaxation times (+10–40%) compared with water dynamics in the aqueous solutions used to resuspend the bacterial samples. Those results indicate both a pressure-induced viscosity increase and slowdown in ionic/macromolecular transport properties within the cells affecting the rates of metabolic and other biological processes. Our new data support emerging models for intracellular organisation with nanoscale water channels threading between macromolecular regions within a dynamically organized structure rather than a homogenous gel-like cytoplasm.
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- Fabrizia Foglia
- Chemistry Department, Christopher Ingold Laboratories, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK.
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- Survivability and Advanced Materials group, Centre for Defence Engineering, Cranfield University at the Defence Academy of the UK, Shrivenham, SN6 8LA, UK
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- Chemistry Department, Christopher Ingold Laboratories, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK.,Biomolecular & Analytical Mass Spectrometry, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020, Antwerp, Belgium
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- Materials Engineering, Sheffield Hallam University, Howard Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK
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- ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, OX11 0QX, UK
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", 00185, Roma, Italy.,Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, CNRS UMR 7590, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, F-75252, Paris, France
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- Institut Laue Langevin, 6 Rue Jules Horowitz, BP 156, 38042, Grenoble, Cedex, France
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- Life Sciences Group, Carl-Ivar Brändén Building, Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 avenue des Martyrs, 38042, Grenoble, cedex 9, France
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- Life Sciences Group, Carl-Ivar Brändén Building, Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 avenue des Martyrs, 38042, Grenoble, cedex 9, France
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- Life Sciences Group, Carl-Ivar Brändén Building, Institut Laue-Langevin, 71 avenue des Martyrs, 38042, Grenoble, cedex 9, France.,Faculty of Natural Sciences/ISTM, Keele University, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, UK
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- Chemistry Department, Christopher Ingold Laboratories, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK.
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Stefanutti E, Bove LE, Alabarse FG, Lelong G, Bruni F, Ricci MA. Vibrational dynamics of confined supercooled water. J Chem Phys 2019; 150:224504. [PMID: 31202218 DOI: 10.1063/1.5094147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The quest for a possible liquid-liquid coexistence line in supercooled water below its homogeneous nucleation temperature is faced by confining water within a porous silica substrate (MCM-41). This system is investigated by synchrotron radiation infrared spectroscopy, exploring both the intramolecular and the intermolecular vibrational dynamics, in the temperature range from ambient down to ∼120 K, along several isobaric paths between 0.7 kbar and 3.0 kbar. Upon lowering the temperature, the OH-stretching band shows that the intramolecular vibrational dynamics continuously evolves from predominantly liquidlike to predominantly icelike. An abrupt change in the line shape of the intermolecular vibrational band between 220 K and 240 K, depending on the pressure, is the signature of nucleation of ice within the MCM-41 pores. These findings do not support the presence of two liquid phases and provide evidence for the coexistence of liquid water and ice in water confined in MCM-41.
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- E Stefanutti
- Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- Sorbonne Université, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, IRD, Institut de Minéralogie, de Physique des Matériaux et de Cosmochimie, IMPMC, 4 Place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France
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- Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Roma, Italy
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Thakur R, VahidMohammadi A, Moncada J, Adams WR, Chi M, Tatarchuk B, Beidaghi M, Carrero CA. Insights into the thermal and chemical stability of multilayered V 2CT x MXene. NANOSCALE 2019; 11:10716-10726. [PMID: 31120085 DOI: 10.1039/c9nr03020d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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We report on the thermal stability of multilayered V2CTx MXenes under different atmospheres by combining in situ Raman spectroscopy with ex situ X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) in order to elucidate and monitor the molecular, electronic, and structural changes of both the surface and bulk of the V2CTx MXene which has recently received much attention. The MXene samples were heated up to 600 °C in inert (N2), oxidative (CO2, air), and reductive (H2) environments under similar conditions. In situ Raman showed that the V[double bond, length as m-dash]O vibration for two-dimensional vanadia is preserved up to 600 °C under N2, while its intensity reduces under H2. When heated above 300 °C under either CO2 or air, V2CTx slightly oxidizes or transforms into V2O5, respectively. Furthermore, SEM revealed the presence of an accordion-like layered structure for the MXene under N2 and H2, while under CO2 and air the layered structure collapses and forms VO2 (V4+) and V2O5 (V5+) crystals, respectively. XPS reveals that, regardless of the gas, surface V species oxidize above 300 °C during the dehydration process. Finally, we demonstrated that the partial dehydration of V2CTx results in the partial oxidation of the material, and the total dehydration is achieved once 700 °C is reached. We believe that our methodology is a unique alternative to tune the dehydration, oxidation, and properties of V2CTx, which allows for the expansion of applications of MXenes.
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- Raj Thakur
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36830, USA.
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Salvati Manni L, Assenza S, Duss M, Vallooran JJ, Juranyi F, Jurt S, Zerbe O, Landau EM, Mezzenga R. Soft biomimetic nanoconfinement promotes amorphous water over ice. NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 2019; 14:609-615. [PMID: 30962546 DOI: 10.1038/s41565-019-0415-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2018] [Accepted: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Water is a ubiquitous liquid with unique physicochemical properties, whose nature has shaped our planet and life as we know it. Water in restricted geometries has different properties than in bulk. Confinement can prevent low-temperature crystallization of the molecules into a hexagonal structure and thus create a state of amorphous water. To understand the survival of life at subzero temperatures, it is essential to elucidate this behaviour in the presence of nanoconfining lipidic membranes. Here we introduce a family of synthetic lipids with designed cyclopropyl modifications in the hydrophobic chains that exhibit unique liquid-crystalline behaviour at low temperature, which enables the maintenance of amorphous water down to ~10 K due to nanoconfinement. The combination of experiments and molecular dynamics simulations unveils a complex lipid-water phase diagram in which bicontinuous cubic and lamellar liquid crystalline phases that contain subzero liquid, glassy or ice water emerge as a competition between the two components, each pushing towards its thermodynamically favoured state.
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- Livia Salvati Manni
- Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Department of Health Sciences & Technology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Health Sciences & Technology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
- Department of Health Sciences & Technology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Neutron Scattering and Imaging, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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- Department of Health Sciences & Technology, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
- Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Dyatkin B, Osti NC, Gallegos A, Zhang Y, Mamontov E, Cummings PT, Wu J, Gogotsi Y. Electrolyte cation length influences electrosorption and dynamics in porous carbon supercapacitors. Electrochim Acta 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2018.06.200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Muckley ES, Naguib M, Wang HW, Vlcek L, Osti NC, Sacci RL, Sang X, Unocic RR, Xie Y, Tyagi M, Mamontov E, Page KL, Kent PRC, Nanda J, Ivanov IN. Multimodality of Structural, Electrical, and Gravimetric Responses of Intercalated MXenes to Water. ACS NANO 2017; 11:11118-11126. [PMID: 29019645 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b05264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Understanding of structural, electrical, and gravimetric peculiarities of water vapor interaction with ion-intercalated MXenes led to design of a multimodal humidity sensor. Neutron scattering coupled to molecular dynamics and ab initio calculations showed that a small amount of hydration results in a significant increase in the spacing between MXene layers in the presence of K and Mg intercalants between the layers. Films of K- and Mg-intercalated MXenes exhibited relative humidity (RH) detection thresholds of ∼0.8% RH and showed monotonic RH response in the 0-85% RH range. We found that MXene gravimetric response to water is 10 times faster than their electrical response, suggesting that H2O-induced swelling/contraction of channels between MXene sheets results in trapping of H2O molecules that act as charge-depleting dopants. The results demonstrate the use of MXenes as humidity sensors and infer potential impact of water on structural and electrical performance of MXene-based devices.
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- Eric S Muckley
- Bredesen Center for Energy Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee , Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology , 100 Bureau Drive, MS 6100, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
- Department of Materials Science, University of Maryland , 4418 Stadium Drive, College Park, Maryland 20740, United States
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- Bredesen Center for Energy Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee , Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Bredesen Center for Energy Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee , Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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Zhan C, Lian C, Zhang Y, Thompson MW, Xie Y, Wu J, Kent PRC, Cummings PT, Jiang D, Wesolowski DJ. Computational Insights into Materials and Interfaces for Capacitive Energy Storage. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2017; 4:1700059. [PMID: 28725531 PMCID: PMC5515120 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201700059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2017] [Revised: 03/25/2017] [Indexed: 05/02/2023]
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Supercapacitors such as electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs) and pseudocapacitors are becoming increasingly important in the field of electrical energy storage. Theoretical study of energy storage in EDLCs focuses on solving for the electric double-layer structure in different electrode geometries and electrolyte components, which can be achieved by molecular simulations such as classical molecular dynamics (MD), classical density functional theory (classical DFT), and Monte-Carlo (MC) methods. In recent years, combining first-principles and classical simulations to investigate the carbon-based EDLCs has shed light on the importance of quantum capacitance in graphene-like 2D systems. More recently, the development of joint density functional theory (JDFT) enables self-consistent electronic-structure calculation for an electrode being solvated by an electrolyte. In contrast with the large amount of theoretical and computational effort on EDLCs, theoretical understanding of pseudocapacitance is very limited. In this review, we first introduce popular modeling methods and then focus on several important aspects of EDLCs including nanoconfinement, quantum capacitance, dielectric screening, and novel 2D electrode design; we also briefly touch upon pseudocapactive mechanism in RuO2. We summarize and conclude with an outlook for the future of materials simulation and design for capacitive energy storage.
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- Cheng Zhan
- Department of ChemistryUniversity of CaliforniaRiversideCA92521United States
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of CaliforniaRiversideCalifornia92521United States
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical EngineeringEast China University of Science and TechnologyShanghai200237P. R. China
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringVanderbilt UniversityNashvilleTennessee37235United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringVanderbilt UniversityNashvilleTennessee37235United States
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- Center for Nanophase Materials SciencesOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTennessee37831United States
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental EngineeringUniversity of CaliforniaRiversideCalifornia92521United States
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- Center for Nanophase Materials SciencesOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTennessee37831United States
- Computer Science and Mathematics DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTennessee37831United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular EngineeringVanderbilt UniversityNashvilleTennessee37235United States
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- Department of ChemistryUniversity of CaliforniaRiversideCA92521United States
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- Chemcial Sciences DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTennessee37831United States
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Osti NC, Etampawala TN, Shrestha UM, Aryal D, Tyagi M, Diallo SO, Mamontov E, Cornelius CJ, Perahia D. Water dynamics in rigid ionomer networks. J Chem Phys 2016; 145:224901. [PMID: 27984911 DOI: 10.1063/1.4971209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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- N. C. Osti
- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA
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- NIST Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
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- Chemical and Engineering Materials Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Chemical and Engineering Materials Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29634, USA
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Cardellini A, Fasano M, Bozorg Bigdeli M, Chiavazzo E, Asinari P. Thermal transport phenomena in nanoparticle suspensions. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016; 28:483003. [PMID: 27701144 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/48/483003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Nanoparticle suspensions in liquids have received great attention, as they may offer an approach to enhance thermophysical properties of base fluids. A good variety of applications in engineering and biomedicine has been investigated with the aim of exploiting the above potential. However, the multiscale nature of nanosuspensions raises several issues in defining a comprehensive modelling framework, incorporating relevant molecular details and much larger scale phenomena, such as particle aggregation and their dynamics. The objectives of the present topical review is to report and discuss the main heat and mass transport phenomena ruling macroscopic behaviour of nanosuspensions, arising from molecular details. Relevant experimental results are included and properly put in the context of recent observations and theoretical studies, which solved long-standing debates about thermophysical properties enhancement. Major transport phenomena are discussed and in-depth analysis is carried out for highlighting the role of geometrical (nanoparticle shape, size, aggregation, concentration), chemical (pH, surfactants, functionalization) and physical parameters (temperature, density). We finally overview several computational techniques available at different scales with the aim of drawing the attention on the need for truly multiscale predictive models. This may help the development of next-generation nanoparticle suspensions and their rational use in thermal applications.
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- Annalisa Cardellini
- Department of Energy, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy
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Gun’ko V, Turov V, Zarko V, Goncharuk O, Pakhlov E, Skubiszewska-Zięba J, Blitz J. Interfacial phenomena at a surface of individual and complex fumed nanooxides. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2016; 235:108-189. [PMID: 27344189 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2016.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2016] [Revised: 06/01/2016] [Accepted: 06/01/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Investigations of interfacial and temperature behaviors of nonpolar and polar adsorbates interacting with individual and complex fumed metal or metalloid oxides (FMO), initial and subjected to various treatments or chemical functionalization and compared to such porous adsorbents as silica gels, precipitated silica, mesoporous ordered silicas, filled polymeric composites, were analyzed. Complex nanooxides include core-shell nanoparticles, CSNP (50-200nm in size) with titania or alumina cores and silica or alumina shells in contrast to simple and smaller nanoparticles of individual FMO. CSNP could be destroyed under high-pressure cryogelation (HPCG) or mechanochemical activation (MCA). These treatments affect the structure of aggregates of nanoparticles and agglomerates of aggregates, resulting in their becoming more compacted. The analysis shows that complex FMO could be more sensitive to external actions than simple nanooxides such as fumed silica. Any treatment of 'soft' FMO affects the interfacial and temperature behaviors of polar and nonpolar adsorbates. Rearrangement of secondary particles and surface functionalization affects the freezing-melting point depression of adsorbates. For some adsorbates, open hysteresis loops became readily apparent in adsorption-desorption isotherms. Clustering of adsorbates bound in textural pores in aggregates of nanoparticles (i.e., voids between nanoparticles in secondary structures) causes reduced changes in enthalpy during phase transitions (freezing, fusion, evaporation). Freezing point depression and melting point elevation cause significant hysteresis freezing-melting effects for adsorbates bound to FMO in the textural pores. Relaxation phenomena for both low- and high-molecular weight adsorbates or filled polymeric composites are affected by the morphology of primary particles, structural organization of secondary particles of differently treated or functionalized FMO, content of adsorbates, co-adsorption order, and temperature.
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Osti NC, Naguib M, Ostadhossein A, Xie Y, Kent PRC, Dyatkin B, Rother G, Heller WT, van Duin ACT, Gogotsi Y, Mamontov E. Effect of Metal Ion Intercalation on the Structure of MXene and Water Dynamics on its Internal Surfaces. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2016; 8:8859-8863. [PMID: 27010763 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
Abstract
MXenes are a recently discovered class of 2D materials with an excellent potential for energy storage applications. Because MXene surfaces are hydrophilic and attractive interaction forces between the layers are relatively weak, water molecules can spontaneously intercalate at ambient humidity and significantly influence the key properties of this 2D material. Using complementary X-ray and neutron scattering techniques, we demonstrate that intercalation with potassium cations significantly improves structural homogeneity and water stability in MXenes. In agreement with molecular dynamics simulations, intercalated potassium ions reduce the water self-diffusion coefficient by 2 orders of magnitude, suggesting greater stability of hydrated MXene against changing environmental conditions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Naresh C Osti
- Chemical and Engineering Materials Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
| | - Alireza Ostadhossein
- Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16801, United States
| | - Yu Xie
- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
| | - Paul R C Kent
- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
| | - Boris Dyatkin
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
| | - Gernot Rother
- Chemical Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
| | - William T Heller
- Biology and Soft Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
| | - Adri C T van Duin
- Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University , University Park, Pennsylvania 16801, United States
| | - Yury Gogotsi
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, United States
| | - Eugene Mamontov
- Chemical and Engineering Materials Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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