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Jana A, Snyder SW, Crumlin EJ, Qian J. Integrated carbon capture and conversion: A review on C 2+ product mechanisms and mechanism-guided strategies. Front Chem 2023; 11:1135829. [PMID: 36874072 PMCID: PMC9978511 DOI: 10.3389/fchem.2023.1135829] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/01/2023] [Accepted: 01/31/2023] [Indexed: 02/22/2023] Open
Abstract
The need to reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations necessitates CO2 capture technologies for conversion into stable products or long-term storage. A single pot solution that simultaneously captures and converts CO2 could minimize additional costs and energy demands associated with CO2 transport, compression, and transient storage. While a variety of reduction products exist, currently, only conversion to C2+ products including ethanol and ethylene are economically advantageous. Cu-based catalysts have the best-known performance for CO2 electroreduction to C2+ products. Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) are touted for their carbon capture capacity. Thus, integrated Cu-based MOFs could be an ideal candidate for the one-pot capture and conversion. In this paper, we review Cu-based MOFs and MOF derivatives that have been used to synthesize C2+ products with the objective of understanding the mechanisms that enable synergistic capture and conversion. Furthermore, we discuss strategies based on the mechanistic insights that can be used to further enhance production. Finally, we discuss some of the challenges hindering widespread use of Cu-based MOFs and MOF derivatives along with possible solutions to overcome the challenges.
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- Asmita Jana
- Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States.,Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- Energy & Environment S&T, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, United States
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- Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States.,Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
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- Chemical Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
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Lu W, Zhang E, Qian J, Weeraratna C, Jackson MN, Zhu C, Long JR, Ahmed M. Probing growth of metal-organic frameworks with X-ray scattering and vibrational spectroscopy. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:26102-26110. [PMID: 36274571 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp04375k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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Nucleation and crystallization arising from liquid to solid phase are involved in a multitude of processes in fields ranging from materials science to biology. Controlling the thermodynamics and kinetics of growth is advantageous to help tune the formation of complex morphologies. Here, we harness wide-angle X-ray scattering and vibrational spectroscopy to elucidate the mechanism for crystallization and growth of the metal-organic framework Co-MOF-74 within microscopic volumes enclosed in a capillary and an attenuated total reflection microchip reactor. The experiments reveal molecular and structural details of the growth processes, while the results of plane wave density functional calculations allow identification of lattice and linker modes in the formed crystals. Synthesis of the metal-organic framework with microscopic volumes leads to monodisperse and micron-sized crystals, in contrast to those typically observed under bulk reaction conditions. Reduction in the volume of reagents within the microchip reactor was found to accelerate the reaction rate. The coupling of spectroscopy with scattering to probe reactions in microscopic volumes promises to be a useful tool in the synthetic chemist's kit to understand chemical bonding and has potential in designing complex materials.
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- Wenchao Lu
- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Material Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
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Hao H, Ruiz Pestana L, Qian J, Liu M, Xu Q, Head‐Gordon T. Chemical transformations and transport phenomena at interfaces. WIRES COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Hongxia Hao
- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry University of California Berkeley California USA
- Chemical Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California USA
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- Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering University of Miami Coral Gables Florida USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California USA
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- Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering University of Miami Coral Gables Florida USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California USA
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- Kenneth S. Pitzer Theory Center and Department of Chemistry University of California Berkeley California USA
- Chemical Sciences Division Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley California USA
- Department of Bioengineering and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering University of California Berkeley California USA
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Photocatalytic Bacterial Inactivation of Acinetobacter baumannli on Cu/TiO2/Diatomite. Catalysts 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/catal12101217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Cu4Ti2O/TiO2/diatomite with double interface Cu4Ti2O/TiO2 and rutile/anatase heterojunction were fabricated, which demonstrated good antibacterial activity (100%) against Acinetobacter baumannii. Cu/TiO2/diatomite prepared under optimum preparation conditions (added diatomite, 0.005 g; Cu, 0.005 g; reaction temperature, 180 °C; reaction time, 8 h) exhibited high antibacterial activity (100%) against A. baumannii. For the Cu/TiO2/diatomite powders, their structural, compositional, optical and morphological traits were characterized by XRD, SEM, TEM, XPS, BET, FTIR, Mapping, and DRS. It was shown that Cu/TiO2/diatomite under optimum conditions consisted of the double interface Cu4Ti2O/TiO2 and rutile/anatase heterojunction with the narrowest band gap and largest BET surface area, pore size, and pore volume. Then, it could exhibit the best photocatalytic activity.
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Lu Y, Sun Q, Liu Y, Yu P, Zhang Y, Lu J, Huang H, Yang H, Cheng T. DFT-ReaxFF hybrid molecular dynamics investigation of the decomposition effects of localized high-concentration electrolyte in lithium metal batteries: LiFSI/DME/TFEO. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2022; 24:18684-18690. [PMID: 35895316 DOI: 10.1039/d2cp02130g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Due to its low electrochemical potential and high theoretical specific energy, lithium-metal batteries (LMBs) have been considered as a promising advanced energy storage system for portable applications such as electric vehicles (EVs). However, the uncontrolled growth of lithium dendrites during cycling has remained a challenge. By utilizing an inert solvent to "dilute" the high concentration electrolytes, the concept of localized high-concentration electrolytes (LHCEs) has recently been demostrated as an effective solution to enable the dendrite-free cycling of LMBs. In this work, we investigated the reactions of 2 M lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) in a mixture of dimethoxyethane (DME)/tris(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl) orthoformate (TFEO) electrolyte at a Li metal anode. The SEI formation mechanism is investigated using a hybrid ab initio and reactive force field (HAIR) method. The 1n reactive HAIR trajectory reveals the important initial reduction reactions of LiFSI, TFEO, and DME. Particularly, both FSI anions and TFEO decompose quickly to release a considerable amount of F-, which leads to a LiF-rich SEI inorganic inner layer (IIL). Furthermore, TFEO produces a significant amount of unsaturated carbon products, such as thiophene, which can potentially increase the conductivity of SEI to increase the battery performance. Meanwhile, XPS analysis is utilized to further investigate the evolution of the atomic environment in SEI. Future designs of better electrolytes can be greatly aided by these results.
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- Yiming Lu
- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory, for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199, Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory, for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199, Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory, for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199, Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory, for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199, Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory, for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199, Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory, for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199, Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory, for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199, Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory, for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199, Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory, for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Soochow University, 199, Ren'ai Road, Suzhou, 215123, Jiangsu, P. R. China.
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Yu P, Sun Q, Liu Y, Ma B, Yang H, Xie M, Cheng T. Multiscale Simulation of Solid Electrolyte Interface Formation in Fluorinated Diluted Electrolytes with Lithium Anodes. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:7972-7979. [PMID: 35129322 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c22610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
Abstract
Lithium metal batteries (LMBs) hold great promise in facilitating high-energy batteries due to their merits such as high specific capacity, low reduction potential, and so forth. However, the realizations of practical LMBs are hindered by severe problems such as undesirable dendrite growth, poor Coulombic efficiency, and so forth. A recently proposed fluorinated electrolyte based on 1 M lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) dissolved in designed fluorinated 1,4-dimethoxybutane (FDMB) solvent has attracted significant attention because of its excellent electrochemical performance that origins from its superior physical and chemical properties, especially its unique ability in forming a robust, stable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI). However, the detailed structure and reaction mechanism of the SEI formation in such a novel electrolyte remains unclear. In this work, we carry out a hybrid ab initio and reactive molecular dynamics (HAIR) simulation to investigate the elementary reactions that regulate the formation of the primitive SEI, paying special attention to the process that involves FDMB, the fluorinated solvent. HAIR simulation reveals that both FSI- anion and FDMB provide F that is adequate to form a uniformed LiF layer that resembles the inorganic inner layer (IIL) of the SEI. N and S radicals from the FSI- anion, which do not deposit on the electrode interface to form lithium-containing inorganic substances, promote the polymerization reaction of unsaturated carbon chains produced by FDMB defluorination, forming the organic outer layer (OOL) of the SEI. The combination of the LiF-rich IIL and polymer-rich organic OOL explains the superior performance of the FDMB-based electrolyte in the device. The detailed reaction mechanism and SEI observed in this work provide insights into the atomic scale for the rational design of F-rich electrolytes in the near future.
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- Peiping Yu
- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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Yang H, Negreiros FR, Sun Q, Xie M, Sementa L, Stener M, Ye Y, Fortunelli A, Goddard WA, Cheng T. Predictions of Chemical Shifts for Reactive Intermediates in CO 2 Reduction under Operando Conditions. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2021; 13:31554-31560. [PMID: 34185998 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c02909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The electroreduction of CO2 into value-added products is a significant step toward closing the global carbon loop, but its performance remains far from meeting the requirement of any practical application. The insufficient understanding of the reaction mechanism is one of the major causes that impede future development. Although several possible reaction pathways have been proposed, significant debates exist due to the lack of experimental support. In this work, we provide opportunities for experiments to validate the reaction mechanism by providing predictions of the core-level shifts (CLS) of reactive intermediates, which can be verified by the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) data in the experiment. We first validated our methods from benchmark calculations of cases with reliable experiments, from which we reach consistent predictions with experimental results. Then, we conduct theoretical calculations under conditions close to the operando experimental ones and predict the C 1s CLS of 20 reactive intermediates in the CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) to CH4 and C2H4 on a Cu(100) catalyst by carefully including solvation effects and applied voltage (U). The results presented in this work should be guidelines for future experiments to verify and interpret the reaction mechanism of CO2RR.
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- Hao Yang
- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, PR China
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- CNR-ICCOM & IPCF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa 56124, Italy
- INFIQC, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba 5000, Argentina
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, PR China
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, PR China
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- CNR-ICCOM & IPCF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa 56124, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Trieste, Trieste 34127, Italy
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- National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230029, China
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- CNR-ICCOM & IPCF, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa 56124, Italy
- Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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- Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials & Devices, Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, PR China
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Liu Y, Sun Q, Yu P, Wu Y, Xu L, Yang H, Xie M, Cheng T, Goddard WA. Effects of High and Low Salt Concentrations in Electrolytes at Lithium-Metal Anode Surfaces Using DFT-ReaxFF Hybrid Molecular Dynamics Method. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:2922-2929. [PMID: 33725449 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c00279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Due to creating a passivated solid electrolyte interphase (SEI), high concentration (HC) electrolytes demonstrate peculiar physicochemical properties and outstanding electrochemical performance. However, the structures of such SEI remains far from clear. In this work, a hybrid ab initio and reactive molecular dynamics (HAIR) scheme is employed to investigate the concentration effect of SEI formation by simulating the reductive degradation reactions of lithium bis(fluorosulfonyl)imide (LiFSI) in 1,3 dioxalane (DOL) electrolytes at concentrations of 1 M, 4 M, and 10 M. The efficient HAIR scheme allows the simulations to reach 1 ns to predict electrolytes' deep products at different concentrations. The simulation findings show that the most critical distinction between HC and its low concentration (LC) analogue is that anion decomposition in HC is much more incomplete when only S-F breaking is observed. These insights are important for the future development of advanced electrolytes by rational design of electrolytes.
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- Yue Liu
- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
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- Materials and Process Simulation Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, United States
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Han Y, Zhang H, Yu Y, Liu Z. In Situ Characterization of Catalysis and Electrocatalysis Using APXPS. ACS Catal 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.0c04251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Yong Han
- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
- Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
- Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
- State Key Laboratory of Functional Materials for Informatics, Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
- Center for Transformative Science, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 201210, China
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