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Chio CC, Tse YLS. Reparameterization of Polarizable Force Fields for Studying Ion Transfer across Liquid-Liquid Interfaces. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:1987-1999. [PMID: 38356148 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c07055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2024]
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We have developed a general scheme for refining classical polarizable molecular dynamics (MD) force fields that can accurately describe the molecular interactions in systems with liquid-liquid interfaces. While ab initio MD (AIMD) simulations can naturally describe molecular interactions, they are often so computationally expensive that simulating large system sizes and/or long time scales is usually infeasible. To resolve this, we parameterized efficient and accurate classical polarizable force fields that use AIMD reference data by minimizing both the relative entropy and the root mean squared deviation in atomic forces. We utilized our new multiscale models to study chloride ion transfer across the water-dichloromethane (DCM) interface with and without the tetraethylammonium cation as the phase-transfer catalyst. Our calculated free-energy barrier for the water-DCM interface is consistent with the other reported simulation results. We further analyzed the ion-transfer process by studying the hydration shell structures around the chloride ion and the ion-pair formation to better understand the mechanism. We observed that electronic polarizability is an important factor for the studied phase-transfer catalyst to lower the free-energy barrier of the ion transfer. Using the water-benzene interface system as an additional example, we show that our parameterization scheme provides a general route for modeling different liquid-liquid interface systems even when the experimental data or force field parameters are not readily available.
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- Chung Chi Chio
- Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
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Wang X, Tse YLS. Flexible Polarizable Water Model Parameterized via Gaussian Process Regression. J Chem Theory Comput 2022; 18:7155-7165. [PMID: 36374554 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.2c00529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Water is one of the most common components in molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Using Gaussian process regression for predicting the properties of a water model without the need of running a simulation whenever the parameters are changed, we obtained a flexible polarizable water model, named SWM4/Fw, that is able to reproduce many reference water properties. The added flexibility is critical for modeling chemical reactions in which chemical bonds can be stretched or even broken and for directly calculating vibrational spectra. In addition to being one of the few water models that are both flexible and polarizable, SWM4/Fw is also efficient thanks to the extended Lagrangian scheme with Drude oscillators. The overall accuracy is on par with or better than the related SWM4-NDP model.
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- Xinyan Wang
- Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong000000, China
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- Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Sha Tin, Hong Kong000000, China
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Wilson KR, Prophet AM, Willis MD. A Kinetic Model for Predicting Trace Gas Uptake and Reaction. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:7291-7308. [PMID: 36170058 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c03559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A model is developed to describe trace gas uptake and reaction with applications to aerosols and microdroplets. Gas uptake by the liquid is formulated as a coupled equilibria that links gas, surface, and bulk regions of the droplet or solution. Previously, this framework was used in explicit stochastic reaction-diffusion simulations to predict the reactive uptake kinetics of ozone with droplets containing aqueous aconitic acid, maleic acid, and sodium nitrite. With the use of prior data and simulation results, a new equation for the uptake coefficient is derived, which accounts for both surface and bulk reactions. Lambert W functions are used to obtain closed form solutions to the integrated rate laws for the multiphase kinetics; similar to previous expressions that describe Michaelis-Menten enzyme kinetics. Together these equations couple interface and bulk processes over a wide range of conditions and do not require many of the limiting assumptions needed to apply resistor model formulations to explain trace gas uptake and reaction.
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- Kevin R Wilson
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, United States.,Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523 United States
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Willis MD, Wilson KR. Coupled Interfacial and Bulk Kinetics Govern the Timescales of Multiphase Ozonolysis Reactions. J Phys Chem A 2022; 126:4991-5010. [PMID: 35863113 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.2c03059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Chemical transformations in aerosols impact the lifetime of particle phase species, the fate of atmospheric pollutants, and both climate- and health-relevant aerosol properties. Timescales for multiphase reactions of ozone in atmospheric aqueous phases are governed by coupled kinetic processes between the gas phase, the particle interface, and its bulk, which respond dynamically to reactive consumption of O3. However, models of atmospheric aerosol reactivity often do not account for the coupled nature of multiphase processes. To examine these dynamics, we use new and prior experimental observations of aqueous droplet reaction kinetics, including three systems with a range of surface affinities and ozonolysis rate coefficients (trans-aconitic acid (C6H6O6), maleic acid (C4H4O4), and sodium nitrite (NaNO2)). Using literature rate coefficients and thermodynamic properties, we constrain a simple two-compartment stochastic kinetic model which resolves the interface from the particle bulk and represents O3 partitioning, diffusion, and reaction as a coupled kinetic system. Our kinetic model accurately predicts decay kinetics across all three systems, demonstrating that both the thermodynamic properties of O3 and the coupled kinetic and diffusion processes are key to making accurate predictions. An enhanced concentration of adsorbed O3, compared to gas and bulk phases is rapidly maintained and remains constant even as O3 is consumed by reaction. Multiphase systems dynamically seek to achieve equilibrium in response to reactive O3 loss, but this is hampered at solute concentrations relevant to aqueous aerosol by the rate of O3 arrival in the bulk by diffusion. As a result, bulk-phase O3 becomes depleted from its Henry's law solubility. This bulk-phase O3 depletion limits reaction timescales for relatively slow-reacting organic solutes with low interfacial affinity (i.e., trans-aconitic and maleic acids, with krxn ≈ 103-104 M-1 s-1), which is in contrast to fast-reacting solutes with higher surface affinity (i.e., nitrite, with krxn ≈ 105 M-1 s-1) where surface reactions strongly impact the observed decay kinetics.
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- Megan D Willis
- Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, California 94720, United States
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Wu S, Yang X, Jing H, Chu Y, Yuan J, Zhu Z, Huang K. Effect of external electric fields on sulfur dioxide–water systems. J Mol Liq 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2022.119023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cruzeiro VWD, Galib M, Limmer DT, Götz AW. Uptake of N 2O 5 by aqueous aerosol unveiled using chemically accurate many-body potentials. Nat Commun 2022; 13:1266. [PMID: 35273144 PMCID: PMC8913772 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-28697-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2021] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The reactive uptake of N2O5 to aqueous aerosol is a major loss channel for nitrogen oxides in the troposphere. Despite its importance, a quantitative picture of the uptake mechanism is missing. Here we use molecular dynamics simulations with a data-driven many-body model of coupled-cluster accuracy to quantify thermodynamics and kinetics of solvation and adsorption of N2O5 in water. The free energy profile highlights that N2O5 is selectively adsorbed to the liquid-vapor interface and weakly solvated. Accommodation into bulk water occurs slowly, competing with evaporation upon adsorption from gas phase. Leveraging the quantitative accuracy of the model, we parameterize and solve a reaction-diffusion equation to determine hydrolysis rates consistent with experimental observations. We find a short reaction-diffusion length, indicating that the uptake is dominated by interfacial features. The parameters deduced here, including solubility, accommodation coefficient, and hydrolysis rate, afford a foundation for which to consider the reactive loss of N2O5 in more complex solutions.
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- Vinícius Wilian D Cruzeiro
- San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
- Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
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- San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA.
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Cruzeiro VWD, Lambros E, Riera M, Roy R, Paesani F, Götz AW. Highly Accurate Many-Body Potentials for Simulations of N 2O 5 in Water: Benchmarks, Development, and Validation. J Chem Theory Comput 2021; 17:3931-3945. [PMID: 34029079 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.1c00069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Dinitrogen pentoxide (N2O5) is an important intermediate in the atmospheric chemistry of nitrogen oxides. Although there has been much research, the processes that govern the physical interactions between N2O5 and water are still not fully understood at a molecular level. Gaining a quantitative insight from computer simulations requires going beyond the accuracy of classical force fields while accessing length scales and time scales that are out of reach for high-level quantum-chemical approaches. To this end, we present the development of MB-nrg many-body potential energy functions for nonreactive simulations of N2O5 in water. This MB-nrg model is based on electronic structure calculations at the coupled cluster level of theory and is compatible with the successful MB-pol model for water. It provides a physically correct description of long-range many-body interactions in combination with an explicit representation of up to three-body short-range interactions in terms of multidimensional permutationally invariant polynomials. In order to further investigate the importance of the underlying interactions in the model, a TTM-nrg model was also devised. TTM-nrg is a more simplistic representation that contains only two-body short-range interactions represented through Born-Mayer functions. In this work, an active learning approach was employed to efficiently build representative training sets of monomer, dimer, and trimer structures, and benchmarks are presented to determine the accuracy of our new models in comparison to a range of density functional theory methods. By assessing the binding curves, distortion energies of N2O5, and interaction energies in clusters of N2O5 and water, we evaluate the importance of two-body and three-body short-range potentials. The results demonstrate that our MB-nrg model has high accuracy with respect to the coupled cluster reference, outperforms current density functional theory models, and thus enables highly accurate simulations of N2O5 in aqueous environments.
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- Vinícius Wilian D Cruzeiro
- San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.,Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States.,Materials Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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- San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, United States
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Galib M, Limmer DT. Reactive uptake of N
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by atmospheric aerosol is dominated by interfacial processes. Science 2021; 371:921-925. [DOI: 10.1126/science.abd7716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/10/2020] [Accepted: 01/22/2021] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Mirza Galib
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Kavli Energy NanoScience Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Materials Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
- Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
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Lv G, Zhang H, Wang Z, Wang N, Sun X, Zhang C, Li M. Understanding the properties of methanesulfinic acid at the air-water interface. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2019; 668:524-530. [PMID: 30856564 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2019] [Revised: 02/27/2019] [Accepted: 03/03/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Methanesulfinic acid (MSIA), an organic sulfur compound, is mainly produced in the oxidation process of dimethyl sulfide in the atmosphere. The properties of MSIA at the air-water interface were studied using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The result shows that the lowest system free energy is located at the interface. Because the free energy difference between the interface and water phase is 3.2 kJ mol-1, the MSIA molecule can easily get out of the free energy well and travel to water phase by the thermal motion, leading to only a 21% probability of its occurrence at the interface. The MSIA molecule tends to tilt at the interface with the sulfino group (-S(O)-OH) pointing toward the water phase. The feature of hydration status at the air-water interface may be favorable to the heterogeneous oxidation of MSIA.
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- Guochun Lv
- Environment Research Institute, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- Environment Research Institute, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- Environment Research Institute, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
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- Environment Research Institute, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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- College of Biological and Environmental Engineering, Binzhou University, Binzhou 256600, China
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- Institute of Mass Spectrometer and Atmospheric Environment, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510632, China; Guangdong Provincial Engineering Research Center for On-line Source Apportionment System of Air Pollution, Guangzhou 510632, China.
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Broderick A, Rocha MA, Khalifa Y, Shiflett MB, Newberg JT. Mass Transfer Thermodynamics through a Gas-Liquid Interface. J Phys Chem B 2019; 123:2576-2584. [PMID: 30803233 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b00958] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [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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Molecular level information about thermodynamic variations (enthalpy, entropy, and free energy) of a gas molecule as it crosses a gas-liquid interface is strongly lacking from an experimental perspective under equilibrium conditions. Herein, we perform in situ measurements of water interacting with the ionic liquid (IL) 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate, [C4mim][Ace], using ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy in order to assess the interfacial uptake of water quantitatively as a function of temperature, pressure, and water mole fraction ( xw). The surface spectroscopy results are compared to existing bulk water absorption experiments, showing that the amount of water in the interfacial region is consistently greater than that in the bulk. The enthalpy and entropy of water sorption vary significantly between the gas-liquid interface and the bulk as a function of xw, with a crossover that occurs near xw = 0.6 where the water-IL mixture converts from being homogeneous ( xw < 0.6) to nanostructured ( xw > 0.6). Free energy results reveal that water at the gas-IL interface is thermodynamically more favorable than that in the bulk, consistent with the enhanced water concentration in the interfacial region. The results herein show that the efficacy for an ionic liquid to absorb a gas phase molecule is not merely a function of bulk solvation parameters but also is significantly influenced by the thermodynamics occurring across the gas-IL interface during the mass transfer process.
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- Alicia Broderick
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering , University of Kansas , Lawrence , Kansas 66045 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering , University of Kansas , Lawrence , Kansas 66045 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , University of Delaware , Newark , Delaware 19716 , United States
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Wang N, Huang X, Gong H, Zhou Y, Li X, Li F, Bao Y, Xie C, Wang Z, Yin Q, Hao H. Thermodynamic mechanism of selective cocrystallization explored by MD simulation and phase diagram analysis. AIChE J 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/aic.16570] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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- Na Wang
- National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Crystallization TechnologySchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University Tianjin China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Crystallization TechnologySchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University Tianjin China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering Tianjin China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering Tianjin China
- Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of Ministry of Education, R&D Center for Petrochemical TechnologyTianjin University Tianjin China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Crystallization TechnologySchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University Tianjin China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering Tianjin China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Crystallization TechnologySchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University Tianjin China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Crystallization TechnologySchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University Tianjin China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Crystallization TechnologySchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University Tianjin China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering Tianjin China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Crystallization TechnologySchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University Tianjin China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering Tianjin China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Crystallization TechnologySchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University Tianjin China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering Tianjin China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Crystallization TechnologySchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University Tianjin China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering Tianjin China
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- National Engineering Research Center of Industrial Crystallization TechnologySchool of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University Tianjin China
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering Tianjin China
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