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Lin C, He L, Xiong P, Lin H, Lai W, Yang X, Xiao F, Sun XL, Qian Q, Liu S, Chen Q, Kaskel S, Zeng L. Adaptive Ionization-Induced Tunable Electric Double Layer for Practical Zn Metal Batteries over Wide pH and Temperature Ranges. ACS NANO 2023; 17:23181-23193. [PMID: 37956093 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c09774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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The violent side reactions of Zn metal in aqueous electrolyte lead to sharp local-pH fluctuations at the interface, which accelerate Zn anode breakdown; thus, the development of an optimization strategy to accommodate a wide pH range is particularly critical for improving aqueous Zn metal batteries. Herein, we report a pH-adaptive electric double layer (EDL) tuned by glycine (Gly) additive with pH-dependent ionization, which exhibits excellent capability to stabilize Zn anodes in wide-pH aqueous electrolytes. It is discovered that a Gly-ionic EDL facilitates the directed migration of charge carriers in both mildly acidic and alkaline electrolytes, leading to the successful suppression of local saturation. It is worth mentioning that the regulation effect of the additive concentration on the inner Helmholtz plane (IHP) structure of Zn electrodes is clarified in depth. It is revealed that the Gly additives without dimerization can develop orderly and dense vertical adsorption within the IHP to effectively reduce the EDL repulsive force of Zn2+ and isolate H2O from the anode surface. Consequently, they Zn anode with tunable EDL exhibits superior electrochemical performance in a wide range of pH and temperature, involving the prodigious cycle reversibility of 7000 h at Zn symmetric cells with ZnSO4-Gly electrolytes and an extended lifespan of 50 times in Zn symmetric cells with KOH-Gly electrolytes. Moreover, acidic Zn powder||MnO2 pouch cells, and alkaline high-voltage Zn||Ni0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 cells, and Zn||NiCo-LDH cells also deliver excellent cycling reversibility. The tunable EDL enables the ultrahigh depth of discharge (DOD) of 93%. This work elucidates the design of electrolyte additives compatible in a wide range of pH and temperature, which might cause inspiration in the fields of practical multiapplication scenarios for Zn anodes.
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- Chuyuan Lin
- Engineering Research Center of Polymer Green Recycling of Ministry of Education, Fujian Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, College of Environmental and Resources, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, People's Republic of China
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- Engineering Research Center of Polymer Green Recycling of Ministry of Education, Fujian Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, College of Environmental and Resources, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, People's Republic of China
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- Inorganic Chemistry I, Technische Universität Dresden, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Engineering Research Center of Polymer Green Recycling of Ministry of Education, Fujian Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, College of Environmental and Resources, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, People's Republic of China
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- Engineering Research Center of Polymer Green Recycling of Ministry of Education, Fujian Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, College of Environmental and Resources, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, People's Republic of China
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- Engineering Research Center of Polymer Green Recycling of Ministry of Education, Fujian Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, College of Environmental and Resources, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, People's Republic of China
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- Engineering Research Center of Polymer Green Recycling of Ministry of Education, Fujian Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, College of Environmental and Resources, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, People's Republic of China
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- Engineering Research Center of Polymer Green Recycling of Ministry of Education, Fujian Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, College of Environmental and Resources, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, People's Republic of China
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- Engineering Research Center of Polymer Green Recycling of Ministry of Education, Fujian Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, College of Environmental and Resources, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China
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- JST-ERATO Yamauchi Materials Space-Tectonics Project, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan
- College of Textiles, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, People's Republic of China
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- Engineering Research Center of Polymer Green Recycling of Ministry of Education, Fujian Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, College of Environmental and Resources, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China
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- Inorganic Chemistry I, Technische Universität Dresden, Bergstraße 66, 01069 Dresden, Germany
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- Engineering Research Center of Polymer Green Recycling of Ministry of Education, Fujian Key Laboratory of Pollution Control & Resource Reuse, College of Environmental and Resources, Fujian Normal University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350007, People's Republic of China
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Energy Materials Chemistry (Ministry of Education), College of Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, People's Republic of China
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Surface Piezoelectricity and Pyroelectricity in Centrosymmetric Materials: A Case of α-Glycine. MATERIALS 2020; 13:ma13204663. [PMID: 33086709 PMCID: PMC7589009 DOI: 10.3390/ma13204663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2020] [Revised: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 10/15/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Surface pyroelectricity and piezoelectricity induced by water incorporation during growth in α-glycine were investigated. Using the periodic temperature change technique, we have determined the thickness (~280 µm) of the near surface layer (NSL) and its pyroelectric coefficient (160 pC/(K × cm2) at 23 °C) independently. The thickness of NSL remains nearly constant till 60 °C and the pyroelectric effect vanishes abruptly by 70 °C. The piezoelectric effect, 0.1 pm/V at 23 °C measured with an interferometer, followed the same temperature dependence as the pyroelectric effect. Abrupt disappearance of both effects at 70 °C is irreversible and suggests that water incorporation to α-glycine forms a well defined near surface phase, which is different form α-glycine because it is polar but it too close to α-glycine to be distinguished by X-ray diffraction (XRD). The secondary pyroelectric effect was found to be <14% of the total, which is unexpectedly small for a material with a large thermal expansion coefficient. This implies that water incorporation infers minimal distortions in the host lattice. This finding suggests a path for the control of the piezoelectric and pyroelectric effects of the crystals using stereospecific incorporation of the guest molecules.
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Bera S, Xue B, Rehak P, Jacoby G, Ji W, Shimon LJW, Beck R, Král P, Cao Y, Gazit E. Self-Assembly of Aromatic Amino Acid Enantiomers into Supramolecular Materials of High Rigidity. ACS NANO 2020; 14:1694-1706. [PMID: 31944667 PMCID: PMC7123433 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b07307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 19.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2019] [Accepted: 01/16/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Most natural biomolecules may exist in either of two enantiomeric forms. Although in nature, amino acid biopolymers are characterized by l-type homochirality, incorporation of d-amino acids in the design of self-assembling peptide motifs has been shown to significantly alter enzyme stability, conformation, self-assembly behavior, cytotoxicity, and even therapeutic activity. However, while functional metabolite assemblies are ubiquitous throughout nature and play numerous important roles including physiological, structural, or catalytic functions, the effect of chirality on the self-assembly nature and function of single amino acids is not yet explored. Herein, we investigated the self-assembly mechanism of amyloid-like structure formation by two aromatic amino acids, phenylalanine (Phe) and tryptophan (Trp), both previously found as extremely important for the nucleation and self-assembly of aggregation-prone peptide regions into functional structures. Employing d-enantiomers, we demonstrate the critical role that amino acid chirality plays in their self-assembly process. The kinetics and morphology of pure enantiomers is completely altered upon their coassembly, allowing to fabricate different nanostructures that are mechanically more robust. Using diverse experimental techniques, we reveal the different molecular arrangement and self-assembly mechanism of the dl-racemic mixtures that resulted in the formation of advanced supramolecular materials. This study provides a simple yet sophisticated engineering model for the fabrication of attractive materials with bionanotechnological applications.
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- Santu Bera
- School
of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty
of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Collaborative
Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory
of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, People’s Republic of China
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Illinois at
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
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- The
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- School
of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty
of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department
of Chemical Research Support, Weizmann Institute
of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- The
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of Illinois at
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
- Department
of Biopharmaceutical Sciences, University
of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607, United States
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- Collaborative
Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, National Laboratory
of Solid State Microstructure, Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210093, People’s Republic of China
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- School
of Molecular Cell Biology and Biotechnology, George S. Wise Faculty
of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, Israel
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Meirzadeh E, Weissbuch I, Ehre D, Lahav M, Lubomirsky I. Polar Imperfections in Amino Acid Crystals: Design, Structure, and Emerging Functionalities. Acc Chem Res 2018; 51:1238-1248. [PMID: 29676901 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Crystals are physical arrays delineated by polar surfaces and often contain imperfections of a polar nature. Understanding the structure of such defects on the molecular level is of topical importance since they strongly affect the macroscopic properties of materials. Moreover, polar imperfections in crystals can be created intentionally and specifically designed by doping nonpolar crystals with "tailor-made" additives as dopants, since their incorporation generally takes place in a polar mode. Insertion of dopants also induces a polar deformation of neighboring host molecules, resulting in the creation of polar domains within the crystals. The contribution of the distorted host molecules to the polarity of such domains should be substantial, particularly in crystals composed of molecules with large dipole moments, such as the zwitterionic amino acids, which possess dipole moments as high as ∼14 D. Polar materials are pyroelectric, i.e., they generate surface charge as a result of temperature change. With the application of recent very sensitive instruments for measuring electric currents, coupled with theoretical computations, it has become possible to determine the structure of polar imperfections, including surfaces, at a molecular level. The detection of pyroelectricity requires attachment of electrodes, which might induce various artifacts and modify the surface of the crystal. Therefore, a new method for contactless pyroelectric measurement using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was developed and compared to the traditional periodic temperature change technique. Here we describe the molecular-level determination of the structure of imperfections of different natures in molecular crystals and how they affect the macroscopic properties of the crystals, with the following specific examples: (i) Experimental support for the nonclassical crystal growth mechanism as provided by the detection of pyroelectricity from near-surface solvated polar layers present at different faces of nonpolar amino acid crystals. (ii) Enantiomeric disorder in dl-alanine crystals disclosed by detection of anomalously strong pyroelectricity along their nonpolar directions. The presence of such disorder, which is not revealed by accurate diffraction techniques, explains the riddle of their needlelike morphology. (iii) The design of mixed polar crystals of l-asparagine·H2O/l-aspartic acid with controlled degrees of polarity, as determined by pyroelectricity and X-ray diffraction, and their use in mechanistic studies of electrofreezing of supercooled water. (iv) Pyroelectricity coupled with dispersion-corrected density functional theory calculations and molecular dynamics simulations as an analytical method for the molecular-level determination of the structure of polar domains created by doping of α-glycine crystals with different l-amino acids at concentrations below 0.5%. (v) Selective insertion of minute amounts of alcohols within the bulk of α-glycine crystals, elucidating their role as inducers of the metastable β-glycine polymorph. In conclusion, the various examples demonstrate that although these imperfections are present in minute amounts, they can be detected by the sensitive pyroelectric measurement, and by combining them with theoretical computations one can elucidate their diverse emerging functionalities.
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- Elena Meirzadeh
- Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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- Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
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Meirzadeh E, Dishon S, Weissbuch I, Ehre D, Lahav M, Lubomirsky I. Solvent-Induced Crystal Polymorphism as Studied by Pyroelectric Measurements and Impedance Spectroscopy: Alcohols as Tailor-Made Inhibitors of α-Glycine. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201800741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Elena Meirzadeh
- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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Meirzadeh E, Dishon S, Weissbuch I, Ehre D, Lahav M, Lubomirsky I. Solvent-Induced Crystal Polymorphism as Studied by Pyroelectric Measurements and Impedance Spectroscopy: Alcohols as Tailor-Made Inhibitors of α-Glycine. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:4965-4969. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Elena Meirzadeh
- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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- Weizmann Institute of Science; Materials and Interfaces; 234 Herzl Rehovot 7610001 Israel
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