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Lounasvuori M, Sun Y, Mathis TS, Puskar L, Schade U, Jiang DE, Gogotsi Y, Petit T. Vibrational signature of hydrated protons confined in MXene interlayers. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1322. [PMID: 36898985 PMCID: PMC10006414 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36842-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023] Open
Abstract
The hydration structure of protons has been studied for decades in bulk water and protonated clusters due to its importance but has remained elusive in planar confined environments. Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal carbides known as MXenes show extreme capacitance in protic electrolytes, which has attracted attention in the energy storage field. We report here that discrete vibrational modes related to protons intercalated in the 2D slits between Ti3C2Tx MXene layers can be detected using operando infrared spectroscopy. The origin of these modes, not observed for protons in bulk water, is attributed to protons with reduced coordination number in confinement based on Density Functional Theory calculations. This study therefore demonstrates a useful tool for the characterization of chemical species under 2D confinement.
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Affiliation(s)
- Mailis Lounasvuori
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA.,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering and A. J. Drexel Nanomaterials Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
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Hao H, Adams EM, Funke S, Schwaab G, Havenith M, Head-Gordon T. Highly Altered State of Proton Transport in Acid Pools in Charged Reverse Micelles. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:1826-1834. [PMID: 36633459 PMCID: PMC9881006 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c11331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
Abstract
Transport mechanisms of solvated protons of 1 M HCl acid pools, confined within reverse micelles (RMs) containing the negatively charged surfactant sodium bis(2-ethylhexyl) sulfosuccinate (NaAOT) or the positively charged cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTABr), are analyzed with reactive force field simulations to interpret dynamical signatures from TeraHertz absorption and dielectric relaxation spectroscopy. We find that the forward proton hopping events for NaAOT are further suppressed compared to a nonionic RM, while the Grotthuss mechanism ceases altogether for CTABr. We attribute the sluggish proton dynamics for both charged RMs as due to headgroup and counterion charges that expel hydronium and chloride ions from the interface and into the bulk interior, thereby increasing the pH of the acid pools relative to the nonionic RM. For charged NaAOT and CTABr RMs, the localization of hydronium near a counterion or conjugate base reduces the Eigen and Zundel configurations that enable forward hopping. Thus, localized oscillatory hopping dominates, an effect that is most extreme for CTABr in which the proton residence time increases dramatically such that even oscillatory hopping is slow.
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- Hongxia Hao
- Kenneth
S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States
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- Cluster
of Excellence Physics of Life, Technische
Universität Dresden, 01307Dresden, Germany,Helmholtz-Zentrum
Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Resource
Ecology, 01328Dresden, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl
für Physkalische Chemie II, Ruhr
Universität Bochum, 44801Bochum, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl
für Physkalische Chemie II, Ruhr
Universität Bochum, 44801Bochum, Germany
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- Lehrstuhl
für Physkalische Chemie II, Ruhr
Universität Bochum, 44801Bochum, Germany
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- Kenneth
S. Pitzer Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States,Department
of Bioengineering, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, California94720, United States,Chemical
Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, California94720, United States,
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DiRisio RJ, Finney JM, Dzugan LC, Madison LR, McCoy AB. Using Diffusion Monte Carlo Wave Functions to Analyze the Vibrational Spectra of H 7O 3+ and H 9O 4. J Phys Chem A 2021; 125:7185-7197. [PMID: 34433268 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.1c05025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Abstract
An approach for evaluating spectra from ground state probability amplitudes (GSPA) obtained from diffusion Monte Carlo (DMC) simulations is extended to improve the description of excited state energies and allow for coupling among vibrational excited states. This approach is applied to studies of the protonated water trimer and tetramer, and their deuterated analogs. These ions provide models for solvated hydronium, and analysis of these spectra provides insights into spectral signatures of proton transfer in aqueous environments. In this approach, we obtain a separable set of internal coordinates from the DMC ground state probability amplitude. A basis is then developed from products of the DMC ground state wave function and low-order polynomials in these internal coordinates. This approach provides a compact basis in which the Hamiltonian and dipole moment matrix are evaluated and used to obtain the spectrum. The resulting spectra are in good agreement with experiment and in many cases provide comparable agreement to the results obtained using much larger basis sets. In addition, the compact basis allows for interpretation of the spectral features and how they evolve with cluster size and deuteration.
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- Ryan J DiRisio
- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04901, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, United States
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