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Ghandi K, Landry C, Du T, Lainé M, Saul A, Le Caër S. Influence of confinement on free radical chemistry in layered nanostructures. Sci Rep 2019; 9:17165. [PMID: 31748626 PMCID: PMC6868163 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52662-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2019] [Accepted: 10/18/2019] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
Abstract
The purpose of the present work was to study how chemical reactions and the electronic structure of atoms are affected by confinement at the sub-nanometer scale. To reach this goal, we studied the H atom in talc, a layered clay mineral. Talc is a highly 2D-confining material with the width of its interlayer space close to angstrom. We investigated talc with a particle accelerator-based spectroscopic method that uses elementary particles. This technique generates an exotic atom, muonium (Mu), which can be considered as an isotope of the H atom. Moreover, the technique allows us to probe a single atom (H atom) at any time and explore the effects of the layered clay on a single ion (proton) or atom. The cation/electron recombination happens in two time windows: one faster than a nanosecond and the other one at longer than microseconds. This result suggests that two types of electron transfer processes take place in these clay minerals. Calculations demonstrated that the interlayer space acts as a catalytic surface and is the primary location of cation/electron recombination in talc. Moreover, the studies of the temperature dependence of Mu decay rates, due to the formation of the surrogate of H2, is suggestive of an "H2" formation reaction that is thermally activated above 25 K, but governed by quantum diffusion below 25 K. The experimental and computational studies of the hyperfine coupling constant of Mu suggest that it is formed in the interlayer space of talc and that its electronic structure is extremely changed due to confinement. All these results imply that the chemistry could be strongly affected by confinement in the interlayer space of clays.
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- Khashayar Ghandi
- University of Guelph, Department of chemistry, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada.
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- University of Guelph, Department of chemistry, Guelph, ON, N1G 2W1, Canada
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- Université de Sherbrooke, Faculté de médecine, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada
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- LIONS, NIMBE, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, CEA Saclay, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, Cedex, France
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- Aix-Marseille University, CINaM-CNRS UMR 7325 Campus de Luminy, F-13288, Marseille, Cedex 9, France
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- LIONS, NIMBE, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, CEA Saclay, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, Cedex, France
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Prikhod’ko S, Popov A, Adonin N. Effects arising from the replacement of aprotic dipolar solvents with ionic liquids in the nickel-catalyzed reduction of aryl chlorides. MOLECULAR CATALYSIS 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.mcat.2018.09.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Morco RP, Joseph JM, Wren JC. The chemical stability of phosphonium-based ionic liquids under gamma irradiation. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra13115k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Photographs of irradiated [P14666][dca] and the corresponding UV-vis and Raman spectra, and conductivities as a function of irradiation time. Black, blue and red lines are for 0, 96 and 192 h of irradiation, respectively.
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- Ryan P. Morco
- Department of Chemistry
- University of Western Ontario
- London
- Canada N6A 5B7
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Western Ontario
- London
- Canada N6A 5B7
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- Department of Chemistry
- University of Western Ontario
- London
- Canada N6A 5B7
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McKenzie I. The positive muon and μSR spectroscopy: powerful tools for investigating the structure and dynamics of free radicals and spin probes in complex systems. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013. [DOI: 10.1039/c3pc90005c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ghandi K, McFadden RML, Cormier PJ, Satija P, Smith M. Radical kinetics in sub- and supercritical carbon dioxide: thermodynamic rate tuning. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2012; 14:8502-5. [DOI: 10.1039/c2cp41170a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Yuan L, Xu C, Peng J, Xu L, Zhai M, Li J, Wei G, Shen X. Identification of the radiolytic product of hydrophobic ionic liquid [C4mim][NTf2] during removal of Sr2+ from aqueous solution. Dalton Trans 2009:7873-5. [DOI: 10.1039/b911026g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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