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Magnussen OM, Drnec J, Qiu C, Martens I, Huang JJ, Chattot R, Singer A. In Situ and Operando X-ray Scattering Methods in Electrochemistry and Electrocatalysis. Chem Rev 2024; 124:629-721. [PMID: 38253355 PMCID: PMC10870989 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00331] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2023] [Revised: 10/02/2023] [Accepted: 11/13/2023] [Indexed: 01/24/2024]
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Electrochemical and electrocatalytic processes are of key importance for the transition to a sustainable energy supply as well as for a wide variety of other technologically relevant fields. Further development of these processes requires in-depth understanding of the atomic, nano, and micro scale structure of the materials and interfaces in electrochemical devices under reaction conditions. We here provide a comprehensive review of in situ and operando studies by X-ray scattering methods, which are powerful and highly versatile tools to provide such understanding. We discuss the application of X-ray scattering to a wide variety of electrochemical systems, ranging from metal and oxide single crystals to nanoparticles and even full devices. We show how structural data on bulk phases, electrode-electrolyte interfaces, and nanoscale morphology can be obtained and describe recent developments that provide highly local information and insight into the composition and electronic structure. These X-ray scattering studies yield insights into the structure in the double layer potential range as well as into the structural evolution during electrocatalytic processes and phase formation reactions, such as nucleation and growth during electrodeposition and dissolution, the formation of passive films, corrosion processes, and the electrochemical intercalation into battery materials.
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- Olaf M. Magnussen
- Kiel
University, Institute of Experimental and
Applied Physics, 24098 Kiel, Germany
- Ruprecht-Haensel
Laboratory, Kiel University, 24118 Kiel, Germany
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- ESRF,
Experiments Division, 38000 Grenoble, France
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- Kiel
University, Institute of Experimental and
Applied Physics, 24098 Kiel, Germany
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- ICGM,
Univ. Montpellier, CNRS, ENSCM, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 5, France
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- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Moumaneix L, Rautakorpi A, Kallio T. Interactions between Hydrogen and Palladium Nanoparticles: Resolving Adsorption and Absorption Contributions. ChemElectroChem 2023. [DOI: 10.1002/celc.202201109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023]
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- Lilian Moumaneix
- Department of Chemistry and Materials Science Aalto University Espoo 00076 Aalto Finland
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- Department of Chemistry and Materials Science Aalto University Espoo 00076 Aalto Finland
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- Department of Chemistry and Materials Science Aalto University Espoo 00076 Aalto Finland
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Freire LO, Andrade DAD. Preliminary survey on cold fusion: It’s not pathological science and may require revision of nuclear theory. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2021.115871] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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The Potential of Ecological Distributed Energy Generation Systems, Situation, and Perspective for Poland. ENERGIES 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/en14237966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Poland needs to fulfill its climate goals and become “climate neutral” by 2050. The plan is intricate for the Polish Government because coal-powered power plants generate about 80 percent of electricity in the country. Although policymakers are making an effort to redesign the energy sector, a lot still remains to be done. The viral trend in that transformation involves installing photovoltaic (PV) panels by private, corporate, and self-government investors. For example, the “My energy” support program of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management has helped finance 220,000 micro-PV installations. The achievement is significant but constitutes only partial success. PV powerplants will not simply replace coal powerplants. That is why the research on the ecological distributed energy generation systems has to be executed. The article presents the research results on ecological distributed energy generation systems, making the transformation of the Polish energy sector possible. The study’s primary objectives were to review the energy situation with particular attention paid to the technologies that could be used as the ecological distributed energy generation systems and draw the scenarios for the sector development. The authors used Desk research, the Delphi method supported with the Computer Assisted-Web Interview (CAWI) technique, and the Weighted SWOT analysis to fulfill the objectives. The findings showed that photovoltaic (PV) systems would be the fastest-growing energy sector even in the perspective of doubling the energy consumption by 2050. Private investors investing in ecological distributed energy generation systems, especially the PV systems mentioned above, and biomass or biogas systems, would significantly help policymakers, including those in Poland, fulfill the climate goals.
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Guan PW, Hemley RJ, Viswanathan V. Combining pressure and electrochemistry to synthesize superhydrides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2110470118. [PMID: 34753821 PMCID: PMC8609654 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2110470118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/30/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Recently, superhydrides have been computationally identified and subsequently synthesized with a variety of metals at very high pressures. In this work, we evaluate the possibility of synthesizing superhydrides by uniquely combining electrochemistry and applied pressure. We perform computational searches using density functional theory and particle swarm optimization calculations over a broad range of pressures and electrode potentials. Using a thermodynamic analysis, we construct pressure-potential phase diagrams and provide an alternate synthesis concept, pressure-potential ([Formula: see text]), to access phases having high hydrogen content. Palladium-hydrogen is a widely studied material system with the highest hydride phase being Pd3H4 Most strikingly for this system, at potentials above hydrogen evolution and ∼ 300 MPa pressure, we find the possibility to make palladium superhydrides (e.g., PdH10). We predict the generalizability of this approach for La-H, Y-H, and Mg-H with 10- to 100-fold reduction in required pressure for stabilizing phases. In addition, the [Formula: see text] strategy allows stabilizing additional phases that cannot be done purely by either pressure or potential and is a general approach that is likely to work for synthesizing other hydrides at modest pressures.
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- Pin-Wen Guan
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- Department of Physics, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607;
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213;
- Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Tosti S. Spontaneity of nuclear fusion: a qualitative analysis via classical thermodynamics. OPEN RESEARCH EUROPE 2021; 1:67. [PMID: 37645210 PMCID: PMC10446017 DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.13738.3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 10/05/2021] [Indexed: 08/31/2023]
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Background: So far the feasibility of nuclear reactions has been studied only through the evaluation of the reaction rate, which gives us information about the kinetics, while the thermodynamic analysis has been limited to evaluations of the change in enthalpy without any consideration of the change in entropy. Methods: This work examines the thermodynamics of nuclear fusion reactions through a simplified approach. The analysis introduces the thermodynamic study of fission and fusion reactions through their comparison with a chemical process. Results: The main result is that fission reactions are always spontaneous (ΔG < 0) since a lot of energy is released in the form of heat and the system moves spontaneously towards a more disordered state. In contrast, fusion reactions are spontaneous only when the enthalpic contribution of the change in Gibbs energy overcomes the entropic contribution. This condition is verified when the temperature of the process is below a characteristic value T*, calculated as the ratio between the energy corresponding to the mass defect and the change of entropy of the fusion reaction. Conclusions: Due to the unavailability of data related to entropy changes in fusion reactions, only a qualitative thermodynamic analysis has been carried out. Through such analysis, the influence of the operating conditions over the spontaneity of fusion processes has been discussed. The final considerations emphasize the role of the thermodynamics analysis that should be implemented in the current studies that, so far, have been mainly based on the assessment of the reaction rate and exothermicity of fusion reactions.
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- Silvano Tosti
- Dept. of Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security, ENEA C.R. Frascati, Via E. Fermi 45, Frascati, 00044, Italy
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Smith PJ, Hendricks RC, Steinetz BM. Electrolytic co-deposition neutron production measured by bubble detectors. J Electroanal Chem (Lausanne) 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2021.115024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Inelastic neutron scattering evidence for anomalous H-H distances in metal hydrides. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2020; 117:4021-4026. [PMID: 32029594 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1912900117] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Hydrogen-containing materials are of fundamental as well as technological interest. An outstanding question for both is the amount of hydrogen that can be incorporated in such materials, because that determines dramatically their physical properties such as electronic and crystalline structure. The number of hydrogen atoms in a metal is controlled by the interaction of hydrogens with the metal and by the hydrogen-hydrogen interactions. It is well established that the minimal possible hydrogen-hydrogen distances in conventional metal hydrides are around 2.1 Å under ambient conditions, although closer H-H distances are possible for materials under high pressure. We present inelastic neutron scattering measurements on hydrogen in [Formula: see text] showing nonexpected scattering at low-energy transfer. The analysis of the spectra reveals that these spectral features in part originate from hydrogen vibrations confined by neighboring hydrogen at distances as short as 1.6 Å. These distances are much smaller than those found in related hydrides, thereby violating the so-called Switendick criterion. The results have implications for the design and creation of hydrides with additional properties and applications.
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Coming in from the cold. NATURE MATERIALS 2019; 18:1145. [PMID: 31645710 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0530-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Ananikov VP. Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials. NANOMATERIALS 2019; 9:nano9091197. [PMID: 31454924 PMCID: PMC6780615 DOI: 10.3390/nano9091197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/12/2019] [Revised: 08/15/2019] [Accepted: 08/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The paramount progress in the field of organic–inorganic hybrid nanomaterials was stimulated by numerous applications in chemistry, physics, life sciences, medicine, and technology. Currently, in the field of hybrid materials, researchers may choose either to mimic complex natural materials or to compete with nature by constructing new artificial materials. The deep mechanistic understanding and structural insight achieved in recent years will guide a new wave in the design of hybrid materials at the atomic and molecular levels.
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- Valentine P Ananikov
- Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991 Moscow, Russia.
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