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Dong M, Nouri R, Tang Z, Guan W. Morphology around Nanopores Fabricated by Laser-Assisted Dielectric Breakdown and Its Impact on Ion and DNA Transport and Sensing. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2023; 15:24747-24755. [PMID: 37163692 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c03123] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Laser-assisted controlled dielectric breakdown (LaCBD) has emerged as an alternative to conventional CBD-based nanopore fabrication due to its localization capability, facilitated by the photothermal-induced thinning down in the hot spot. Here, we reported the potential impact of the laser on forming debris around the nanopore region in LaCBD. The debris was clearly observable by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. We found that debris formation is a unique phenomenon in LaCBD that is not observable in the conventional CBD approach. We also found that the LaCBD-induced debris is more evident when the laser power and voltage stress are higher. Moreover, the debris is asymmetrically distributed on the top and bottom sides of the membrane. We also found unexpected rectified ionic and molecular transport in those LaCBD nanopores with debris. Based on these observations, we developed and validated a model describing the debris formation kinetics in LaCBD by considering the generation, diffusion, drift, and gravity in viscous mediums. These findings indicate that while laser aids in nanopore localization, precautions should be taken due to the potential formation of debris and rectification of molecular transport. This study provides valuable insights into the kinetics of LaCBD and the characteristics of the LaCBD nanopore.
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- Ming Dong
- Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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- Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, United States
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Seo J, Choi S, Singh R, Choi JH. Spatial Inhomogeneity and Molecular Aggregation behavior in Aqueous Binary Liquid Mixtures. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.120949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/05/2022]
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Yao N, Chen X, Fu ZH, Zhang Q. Applying Classical, Ab Initio, and Machine-Learning Molecular Dynamics Simulations to the Liquid Electrolyte for Rechargeable Batteries. Chem Rev 2022; 122:10970-11021. [PMID: 35576674 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00904] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 33.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Rechargeable batteries have become indispensable implements in our daily life and are considered a promising technology to construct sustainable energy systems in the future. The liquid electrolyte is one of the most important parts of a battery and is extremely critical in stabilizing the electrode-electrolyte interfaces and constructing safe and long-life-span batteries. Tremendous efforts have been devoted to developing new electrolyte solvents, salts, additives, and recipes, where molecular dynamics (MD) simulations play an increasingly important role in exploring electrolyte structures, physicochemical properties such as ionic conductivity, and interfacial reaction mechanisms. This review affords an overview of applying MD simulations in the study of liquid electrolytes for rechargeable batteries. First, the fundamentals and recent theoretical progress in three-class MD simulations are summarized, including classical, ab initio, and machine-learning MD simulations (section 2). Next, the application of MD simulations to the exploration of liquid electrolytes, including probing bulk and interfacial structures (section 3), deriving macroscopic properties such as ionic conductivity and dielectric constant of electrolytes (section 4), and revealing the electrode-electrolyte interfacial reaction mechanisms (section 5), are sequentially presented. Finally, a general conclusion and an insightful perspective on current challenges and future directions in applying MD simulations to liquid electrolytes are provided. Machine-learning technologies are highlighted to figure out these challenging issues facing MD simulations and electrolyte research and promote the rational design of advanced electrolytes for next-generation rechargeable batteries.
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- Nan Yao
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Green Chemical Reaction Engineering and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Mohanakumar S, Wiegand S. Towards understanding specific ion effects in aqueous media using thermodiffusion. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2022; 45:10. [PMID: 35106668 PMCID: PMC8807466 DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-022-00164-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2021] [Accepted: 01/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Specific ion effects play an important role in scientific and technological processes. According to Hofmeister, the influence on the hydrogen bond network depends on the ion and leads to a specific order of the ions. Also thermodiffusion the mass transport caused by a temperature gradient is very sensitive to changes of the hydrogen bond network leading to a ranking according to hydrophilicity of the salt. Hence, we investigate various salt solutions in order to compare with the Hofmeister concept. We have studied three different sodium salts in water as a function of temperature (25-45[Formula: see text]C) and concentration (0.5-5 mol kg[Formula: see text]) using Thermal Diffusion Forced Rayleigh Scattering (TDFRS). The three anions studied, carbonate, acetate and thiocyanate, span the entire range of the Hofmeister series from hydrophilic to hydrophobic. We compare the results with the recent measurements of the corresponding potassium salts to see to what extent the cation changes the thermodiffusion of the salt.
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- Shilpa Mohanakumar
- IBI-4:Biomacromolecular Systems and Processes, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52428, Jülich, Germany
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- IBI-4:Biomacromolecular Systems and Processes, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, D-52428, Jülich, Germany.
- Chemistry Department-Physical Chemistry, University Cologne, D-50939, Cologne, Germany.
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Donon J, Habka S, Very T, Charnay-Pouget F, Mons M, Aitken DJ, Brenner V, Gloaguen E. Ion Pair Supramolecular Structure Identified by ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy and Simulations in Explicit Solvent*. Chemphyschem 2021; 22:2442-2455. [PMID: 34637180 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202100565] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2021] [Revised: 09/17/2021] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The present work uses ATR-FTIR spectroscopy assisted by simulations in explicit solvent and frequency calculations to investigate the supramolecular structure of carboxylate alkali-metal ion pairs in aqueous solutions. ATR-FTIR spectra in the 0.25-4.0 M concentration range displayed cation-specific behaviors, which enabled the measurement of the appearance concentration thresholds of contact ion pairs between 1.9 and 2.6 M depending on the cation. Conformational explorations performed using a non-local optimization method associated to a polarizable force-field (AMOEBA), followed by high quantum chemistry level (RI-B97-D3/dhf-TZVPP) optimizations, mode-dependent scaled harmonic frequency calculations and electron density analyses, were used to identify the main supramolecular structures contributing to the experimental spectra. A thorough analysis enables us to reveal the mechanisms responsible for the spectroscopic sensitivity of the carboxylate group and the respective role played by the cation and the water molecules, highlighting the necessity of combining advanced experimental and theoretical techniques to provide a fair and accurate description of ion pairing.
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- Jeremy Donon
- LIDYL, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, CEA Saclay, Bât 522, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- LIDYL, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, CEA Saclay, Bât 522, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- LIDYL, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, CEA Saclay, Bât 522, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.,IDRIS-CNRS, Campus Universitaire d'Orsay, BP 167, 91403, Orsay cedex, France
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- ICMMO, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Université Paris Saclay, UMR 8182, Bât. 420, 15 rue Georges Clémenceau, 91405, Orsay cedex, France.,Université Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, SIGMA Clermont, ICCF, 63000, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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- LIDYL, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, CEA Saclay, Bât 522, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- ICMMO, CNRS, Université Paris Sud, Université Paris Saclay, UMR 8182, Bât. 420, 15 rue Georges Clémenceau, 91405, Orsay cedex, France
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- LIDYL, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, CEA Saclay, Bât 522, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- LIDYL, CEA, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, CEA Saclay, Bât 522, 91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Modulation of micellization behavior of imidazolium based surface active ionic liquids by aromatic anions in aqueous medium. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2021.127588] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Gong SY, Wang P, Wei ZY, Xu HG, Xu XL, Zheng WJ. Structures of (NaSCN) 2(H 2O) n -/0 (n = 0-7) and solvation induced ion pair separation: Gas phase anion photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretical calculations. J Chem Phys 2021; 154:204301. [PMID: 34241176 DOI: 10.1063/5.0049567] [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] Open
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We studied (NaSCN)2(H2O)n - clusters in the gas phase using size-selected anion photoelectron spectroscopy. The photoelectron spectra and vertical detachment energies of (NaSCN)2(H2O)n - (n = 0-5) were obtained in the experiment. The structures of (NaSCN)2(H2O)n -/0 up to n = 7 were investigated with density functional theory calculations. Two series of peaks are observed in the spectra, indicating that two types of structures coexist, the high electron binding energy peaks correspond to the chain style structures, and the low electron binding energy peaks correspond to the Na-N-Na-N rhombic structures or their derivatives. For the (NaSCN)2(H2O)n - clusters at n = 3-5, the Na-N-Na-N rhombic structures are the dominant structures, the rhombic four-membered rings start to open at n = 4, and the solvent separated ion pair (SSIP) type of structures start to appear at n = 6. For the neutral (NaSCN)2(H2O)n clusters, the Na-N-Na-N rhombic isomers become the dominant starting at n = 3, and the SSIP type of structures start to appear at n = 5 and become dominant at n = 6. The structural evolution of (NaSCN)2(H2O)n -/0 (n = 0-7) confirms the possible existence of ionic clusters such as Na(SCN)2 - and Na2(SCN)+ in NaSCN aqueous solutions.
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- Shi-Yan Gong
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Molecular aggregation in liquid water: Laplace spectra and spectral clustering of H-bonded network. J Mol Liq 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2020.114802] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Mikalčiūtė A, Vilčiauskas L. Insights into the hydrogen bond network topology of phosphoric acid and water systems. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2021; 23:6213-6224. [PMID: 33687381 DOI: 10.1039/d0cp05126h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Phosphoric acid and its mixtures with water are some of the best proton conducting materials known to science. Although the proton conductivity in pure phosphoric acid decreases upon external doping with excess H+ or OH-, the addition of water improves it substantially. A number of experimental and theoretical studies indicate that these systems form a very special case of hydrogen bond networks which not only facilitate fast proton transport but also show a number of other interesting properties such as glass forming ability. In this work, we present the molecular dynamics simulation results of the H3PO4-H2O system over the entire concentration range. The hydrogen bond networks were analyzed in terms of conventional microscopic as well as topological properties based on graph and network theory. The results show that the hydrogen bond network of H3PO4 is fundamentally different from that of H2O. On average, each phosphoric acid molecule tends to form more and stronger hydrogen bonds than water which leads to a much more connected and clustered network showing small-world properties which are absent in pure water. Moreover, these hydrogen bond network properties persist in the H3PO4-H2O mixtures as well, even at relatively high water contents. Finally, many of the physical properties such as molecular diffusion coefficients seem to be also intimately related to the network topological properties and follow similar trends with respect to system content. These results strongly indicate that many important properties such as proton transport in phosphoric acid and its aqueous systems are fundamentally related to their hydrogen bond network topology and might hold the key for their ultimate molecular understanding.
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- Austėja Mikalčiūtė
- Institute of Chemistry, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio al. 3, LT-10257, Vilnius, Lithuania.
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- Institute of Chemistry, Vilnius University, Saulėtekio al. 3, LT-10257, Vilnius, Lithuania. and Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC), Saulėtekio al. 3, LT-10257, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Gong S, Wang P, Wei Z, Yang B, Xu X, Xu H, Zheng W. Microsolvation of Sodium Thiocyanate in Water: Gas Phase Anion Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Theoretical Calculations. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:7816-7826. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c07071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Shiyan Gong
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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McEldrew M, Goodwin ZAH, Bi S, Bazant MZ, Kornyshev AA. Theory of ion aggregation and gelation in super-concentrated electrolytes. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:234506. [DOI: 10.1063/5.0006197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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- Michael McEldrew
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Physics, CDT Theory and Simulation of Materials, Imperial College of London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of London, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, White City Campus, Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom
- Thomas Young Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials, Imperial College of London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, Hubei 430074, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
- Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of London, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, White City Campus, Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ, United Kingdom
- Thomas Young Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials, Imperial College of London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
- Institute of Molecular Science and Engineering, Imperial College of London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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Zhang X, Wang Z, Chen Z, Li H, Zhang L, Ye J, Zhang Q, Zhuang W. Molecular Mechanism of Water Reorientation Dynamics in Dimethyl Sulfoxide Aqueous Mixtures. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:1806-1816. [PMID: 32022564 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c00717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nonmonotonic composition dependence is often observed for numerous properties in the aqueous mixtures of small amphiphilic molecules. The molecular picture underlying this structure-activity relationship, however, remains largely elusive. We herein studied water reorientation dynamics in the aqueous mixture of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), which has a significant nonmonotonic composition dependence, using molecular dynamic simulation and an extended molecular jump model. The analysis indicates that this nonideal behavior is driven by the collective frame diffusion component of water reorientation, which decelerates in the water-rich regime because of the strengthened hydrogen bonds and accelerates in the water-poor regime as the hydrogen bonding network is broken into smaller aggregates. The current work therefore connects the microheterogeneity in the solvation structure of DMSO-water with its nonmonotonic hydration dynamics and sheds new light on how microsegregation leads to the multiscale hydration nonideality in general.
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- Xia Zhang
- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Inner Mongolia University for Nationlities, Tongliao Inner Mongolia 028043, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Bohai University, Jinzhou, Liaoning 121013, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 35000, China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Bohai University, Jinzhou, Liaoning 121013, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 35000, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Inner Mongolia University for Nationlities, Tongliao Inner Mongolia 028043, China
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- College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Inner Mongolia University for Nationlities, Tongliao Inner Mongolia 028043, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou, Fujian 35000, China
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Sundaram MM, Appadoo D. Traditional salt-in-water electrolyte vs. water-in-salt electrolyte with binary metal oxide for symmetric supercapacitors: capacitive vs. faradaic. Dalton Trans 2020; 49:11743-11755. [PMID: 32797136 DOI: 10.1039/d0dt01871f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The electrochemical energy storage of lithium and sodium ions from aqueous solutions in binary metal oxides is of great interest for renewable energy storage applications. Binary metal oxides are of interest for aqueous energy storage due to their better structural stability and electronic conductivity and tunability of redox potentials. They have also been widely studied as novel electrodes for supercapacitors. The interactions between water and lithium/sodium ions, and water and binary metal oxide surface determine the electrochemical reactions and their long-term stability. Our results indicate that the aqueous sodium electrolyte has a stronger influence on the capacitance and cycling stability of the binary (Ca and Mo) metal oxide electrode than its lithium cousin. The symmetric cell in a two-electrode configuration was assembled with the proposed binary metal oxide, which shows an average discharge voltage of 1.2 V, delivering a specific capacitance of 72 F g-1 at a specific energy density of 32 W h kg-1 based on the total mass of the active materials. The development of highly concentrated aqueous electrolytes such as the "water-in-salt" electrolyte showed a larger electrochemical (voltage) window with enhanced storage capacitance for increasing the salt concentrations has also been discussed.
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- THz-Far Infrared Beamline, ANSTO-Australian Synchrotron, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
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Koleini MM, Badizad MH, Kargozarfard Z, Ayatollahi S. The impact of salinity on ionic characteristics of thin brine film wetting carbonate minerals: An atomistic insight. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2019. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2019.03.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Svoboda M, Moučka F, Lísal M. Saturated aqueous NaCl solution and pure water in Na-montmorillonite clay at thermodynamic conditions of hydraulic fracturing: Thermodynamics, structure and diffusion from molecular simulations. J Mol Liq 2018. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2018.08.144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Graham TR, Semrouni D, Mamontov E, Ramirez-Cuesta AJ, Page K, Clark A, Schenter GK, Pearce CI, Stack AG, Wang HW. Coupled Multimodal Dynamics of Hydrogen-Containing Ion Networks in Water-Deficient, Sodium Hydroxide-Aluminate Solutions. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:12097-12106. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b09375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Trent R. Graham
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and the Materials Science and Engineering Program, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
- Department of Chemistry and the Materials Science and Engineering Program, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington 99352, United States
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Svoboda M, Lísal M. Concentrated aqueous sodium chloride solution in clays at thermodynamic conditions of hydraulic fracturing: Insight from molecular dynamics simulations. J Chem Phys 2018; 148:222806. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5017166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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- Martin Svoboda
- Department of Molecular and Mesoscopic Modelling, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS, v. v. i., Prague, Czech Republic
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, J. E. Purkinje University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
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- Department of Molecular and Mesoscopic Modelling, Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the CAS, v. v. i., Prague, Czech Republic
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, J. E. Purkinje University, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
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Water dynamics in concentrated electrolytes: Local ion effect on hydrogen-bond jumps rather than collective coupling to ion clusters. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2018; 115:E4953-E4954. [PMID: 29748429 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1803988115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Tesei G, Aspelin V, Lund M. Specific Cation Effects on SCN– in Bulk Solution and at the Air–Water Interface. J Phys Chem B 2018; 122:5094-5105. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b02303] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Giulio Tesei
- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
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- Division of Theoretical Chemistry, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden
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