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Wang Y, Katyal N, Tang Y, Li H, Shin K, Liu W, He R, Xu M, Henkelman G, Bao SJ. One-Step Pyrolysis Construction of Bimetallic Atom-Cluster Sites for Boosting Bifunctional Catalytic Activity in Zn-Air Batteries. Small 2024; 20:e2306504. [PMID: 37926769 DOI: 10.1002/smll.202306504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2023] [Revised: 09/25/2023] [Indexed: 11/07/2023]
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Due to their unique advantages, single atoms and clusters of transition metals are expected to achieve a breakthrough in catalytic activity, but large-scale production of active materials remains a challenge. In this work, a simple solvent-free one-step annealing method is developed and applied to construct diatomic and cluster active sites in activated carbon by utilizing the strong anchoring ability of phenanthroline to metal ions, which can be scaled for mass productions. Benefiting from the synergy between the different metals, the obtained sub-nano-bimetallic atom-cluster catalysts (FeNiAC -NC) exhibit high oxygen reduction reactions (ORR) activity (E1/2 = 0.936 V vs. RHE) and a small ORR/oxygen evolution reaction (OER) potential gap of only 0.594 V. An in-house pouch Zn-air battery is assembled using an FeNiAC -NC catalyst, which demonstrates a stability of 1000 h, outperforming previous reports. The existence of clusters and their effects on catalytic activity is analyzed by density functional theory calculations to reveal the chemistry of nano-bimetallic atom-cluster catalysts.
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- Youpeng Wang
- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Electron Microscopy Centre, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanbat National University, Daejeon, 34158, Republic of Korea
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, P. R. China
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Wang Y, Liu Y, Nguyen M, Cho J, Katyal N, Vishnugopi BS, Hao H, Fang R, Wu N, Liu P, Mukherjee PP, Nanda J, Henkelman G, Watt J, Mitlin D. Stable Anode-Free All-Solid-State Lithium Battery through Tuned Metal Wetting on the Copper Current Collector. Adv Mater 2023; 35:e2206762. [PMID: 36445936 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202206762] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2022] [Revised: 10/23/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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A stable anode-free all-solid-state battery (AF-ASSB) with sulfide-based solid-electrolyte (SE) (argyrodite Li6 PS5 Cl) is achieved by tuning wetting of lithium metal on "empty" copper current-collector. Lithiophilic 1 µm Li2 Te is synthesized by exposing the collector to tellurium vapor, followed by in situ Li activation during the first charge. The Li2 Te significantly reduces the electrodeposition/electrodissolution overpotentials and improves Coulombic efficiency (CE). During continuous electrodeposition experiments using half-cells (1 mA cm-2 ), the accumulated thickness of electrodeposited Li on Li2 Te-Cu is more than 70 µm, which is the thickness of the Li foil counter-electrode. Full AF-ASSB with NMC811 cathode delivers an initial CE of 83% at 0.2C, with a cycling CE above 99%. Cryogenic focused ion beam (Cryo-FIB) sectioning demonstrates uniform electrodeposited metal microstructure, with no signs of voids or dendrites at the collector-SE interface. Electrodissolution is uniform and complete, with Li2 Te remaining structurally stable and adherent. By contrast, an unmodified Cu current-collector promotes inhomogeneous Li electrodeposition/electrodissolution, electrochemically inactive "dead metal," dendrites that extend into SE, and thick non-uniform solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) interspersed with pores. Density functional theory (DFT) and mesoscale calculations provide complementary insight regarding nucleation-growth behavior. Unlike conventional liquid-electrolyte metal batteries, the role of current collector/support lithiophilicity has not been explored for emerging AF-ASSBs.
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- Yixian Wang
- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Applied Energy Division, SLAC National Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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Hao H, Wang Y, Katyal N, Yang G, Dong H, Liu P, Hwang S, Mantha J, Henkelman G, Xu Y, Boscoboinik JA, Nanda J, Mitlin D. Molybdenum Carbide Electrocatalyst In Situ Embedded in Porous Nitrogen-Rich Carbon Nanotubes Promotes Rapid Kinetics in Sodium-Metal-Sulfur Batteries. Adv Mater 2022; 34:e2106572. [PMID: 35451133 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202106572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2021] [Revised: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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This is the first report of molybdenum carbide-based electrocatalyst for sulfur-based sodium-metal batteries. MoC/Mo2 C is in situ grown on nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes in parallel with formation of extensive nanoporosity. Sulfur impregnation (50 wt% S) results in unique triphasic architecture termed molybdenum carbide-porous carbon nanotubes host (MoC/Mo2 C@PCNT-S). Quasi-solid-state phase transformation to Na2 S is promoted in carbonate electrolyte, with in situ time-resolved Raman, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and optical analyses demonstrating minimal soluble polysulfides. MoC/Mo2 C@PCNT-S cathodes deliver among the most promising rate performance characteristics in the literature, achieving 987 mAh g-1 at 1 A g-1 , 818 mAh g-1 at 3 A g-1 , and 621 mAh g-1 at 5 A g-1 . The cells deliver superior cycling stability, retaining 650 mAh g-1 after 1000 cycles at 1.5 A g-1 , corresponding to 0.028% capacity decay per cycle. High mass loading cathodes (64 wt% S, 12.7 mg cm-2 ) also show cycling stability. Density functional theory demonstrates that formation energy of Na2 Sx (1 ≤ x ≤ 4) on surface of MoC/Mo2 C is significantly lowered compared to analogous redox in liquid. Strong binding of Na2 Sx (1 ≤ x ≤ 4) on MoC/Mo2 C surfaces results from charge transfer between the sulfur and Mo sites on carbides' surface.
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- Hongchang Hao
- Materials Science and Engineering Program and Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program and Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program and Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program and Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, 11973, USA
- Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Department, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, 11790, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program and Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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Wang Y, Dong H, Katyal N, Hao H, Liu P, Celio H, Henkelman G, Watt J, Mitlin D. A Sodium-Antimony-Telluride Intermetallic Allows Sodium-Metal Cycling at 100% Depth of Discharge and as an Anode-Free Metal Battery. Adv Mater 2022; 34:e2106005. [PMID: 34679207 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202106005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Revised: 10/04/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Repeated cold rolling and folding is employed to fabricate a metallurgical composite of sodium-antimony-telluride Na2 (Sb2/6 Te3/6 Vac1/6 ) dispersed in electrochemically active sodium metal, termed "NST-Na." This new intermetallic has a vacancy-rich thermodynamically stable face-centered-cubic structure and enables state-of-the-art electrochemical performance in widely employed carbonate and ether electrolytes. NST-Na achieves 100% depth-of-discharge (DOD) in 1 m NaPF6 in G2, with 15 mAh cm-2 at 1 mA cm-2 and Coulombic efficiency (CE) of 99.4%, for 1000 h of plating/stripping. Sodium-metal batteries (SMBs) with NST-Na and Na3 V2 (PO4 )3 (NVP) or sulfur cathodes give significantly improved energy, cycling, and CE (>99%). An anode-free battery with NST collector and NVP obtains 0.23% capacity decay per cycle. Imaging and tomography using conventional and cryogenic microscopy (Cryo-EM) indicate that the sodium metal fills the open space inside the self-supporting sodiophilic NST skeleton, resulting in dense (pore-free and solid electrolyte interphase (SEI)-free) metal deposits with flat surfaces. The baseline Na deposit consists of filament-like dendrites and "dead metal", intermixed with pores and SEI. Density functional theory calculations show that the uniqueness of NST lies in the thermodynamic stability of the Na atoms (rather than clusters) on its surface that leads to planar wetting, and in its own stability that prevents decomposition during cycling.
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- Yixian Wang
- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA
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- Materials Science and Engineering Program & Texas Materials Institute (TMI), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712-1591, USA
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Lu HC, Katyal N, Henkelman G, Milliron DJ. Controlling the Shape Anisotropy of Monoclinic Nb 12O 29 Nanocrystals Enables Tunable Electrochromic Spectral Range. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:15745-15755. [PMID: 34520207 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c06901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Electrochromic smart windows that modulate the solar transmittance in a wide and selective spectral range can optimize building energy efficiency. However, for conventional materials such as bulk transition metal oxides, the electrochromic spectral range is constrained by their crystal structure with limited tunability. Herein, we report a method to control the shape anisotropy of monoclinic Nb12O29 nanocrystals and obtain a tunable electrochromic spectral range. We demonstrate the synthesis of monoclinic Nb12O29 nanorods (NRs), extending one-dimensionally along the b direction, and monoclinic Nb12O29 nanoplatelets (NPLs), extending two-dimensionally along the b and c directions. Upon electrochemical reduction accompanied by Li insertion, the NR films show increasing absorbance mostly in the near infrared region. In contrast, the NPL films show increasing absorbance in the near infrared region first followed by increasing absorbance in both visible and near infrared regions. To elucidate the influence of shape anisotropy, we used density functional theory to construct the lithiated structures of monoclinic Nb12O29 and in these structures we identified the presence of square planar sites and crystallographic shear sites for Li insertion. By calculating the theoretical spectra of the lithiated structures, we demonstrate that the Li insertion into the square planar sites results in absorption in the near infrared region in both NRs and NPLs due to their extension in the b direction, while the subsequent insertion of Li into the crystallographic shear sites leads to absorption in both visible and near infrared regions, which only occurs in NPLs due to their extension in the c direction.
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- Hsin-Che Lu
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1589, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1589, United States
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Sikma RE, Katyal N, Lee SK, Fryer JW, Romero CG, Emslie SK, Taylor EL, Lynch VM, Chang JS, Henkelman G, Humphrey SM. Low-Valent Metal Ions as MOF Pillars: A New Route Toward Stable and Multifunctional MOFs. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:13710-13720. [PMID: 34410114 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c05564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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PCM-102 is a new organophosphine metal-organic framework (MOF) featuring diphosphine pockets that consist of pairs of offset trans-oriented P(III) donors. Postsynthetic addition of M(I) salts (M = Cu, Ag, Au) to PCM-102 induces single-crystal to single-crystal transformations and the formation of trans-[P2M]+ solid-state complexes (where P = framework-based triarylphosphines). While the unmetalated PCM-102 has low porosity, the addition of secondary Lewis acids to install rigid P-M-P pillars is shown to dramatically increase both stability and selective gas uptake properties, with N2 Brunauer-Emmett-Teller surface areas >1500 m2 g-1. The Ag(I) analogue can also be obtained via a simple, one-pot peri-synthetic route and is an ideal sacrificial precursor for materials with mixed bimetallic MA/MB pillars via postsynthetic, solvent-assisted metal exchange. Notably, the M-PCM-102 family of MOFs contain periodic trans-[P2M]+ sites that are free of counter anions, unlike traditional analogous molecular complexes, since the precursor PCM-102 MOF is monoanionic, enabling access to charge-neutral metal-pillared materials. Four M-PCM-102 materials were evaluated for the separation of C2 hydrocarbons. The separation performance was found to be tunable based on the metal(s) incorporated, and density functional theory was employed to elucidate the nature of the unusual observed sorption preference, C2H2 > C2H6 > C2H4.
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- R Eric Sikma
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 4.428 Welch Hall, 105 E. 24th Street Stop A5300, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 4.428 Welch Hall, 105 E. 24th Street Stop A5300, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States
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- Research Center for Nanocatalysis, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), P.O. Box 107, Yusung, Daejeon 305-600, Korea
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- Austin-International Framework Undergraduate Exchange Program, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 120 Inner Campus Drive Stop G2500, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Austin-International Framework Undergraduate Exchange Program, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 120 Inner Campus Drive Stop G2500, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 4.428 Welch Hall, 105 E. 24th Street Stop A5300, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States.,Austin-International Framework Undergraduate Exchange Program, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 120 Inner Campus Drive Stop G2500, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Austin-International Framework Undergraduate Exchange Program, College of Natural Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 120 Inner Campus Drive Stop G2500, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 4.428 Welch Hall, 105 E. 24th Street Stop A5300, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States
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- Research Center for Nanocatalysis, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT), P.O. Box 107, Yusung, Daejeon 305-600, Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 4.428 Welch Hall, 105 E. 24th Street Stop A5300, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, 4.428 Welch Hall, 105 E. 24th Street Stop A5300, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States
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Aslam MK, Seymour ID, Katyal N, Li S, Yang T, Bao SJ, Henkelman G, Xu M. Metal chalcogenide hollow polar bipyramid prisms as efficient sulfur hosts for Na-S batteries. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5242. [PMID: 33067473 PMCID: PMC7568557 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19078-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2020] [Accepted: 09/25/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Sodium sulfur batteries require efficient sulfur hosts that can capture soluble polysulfides and enable fast reduction kinetics. Herein, we design hollow, polar and catalytic bipyramid prisms of cobalt sulfide as efficient sulfur host for sodium sulfur batteries. Cobalt sulfide has interwoven surfaces with wide internal spaces that can accommodate sodium polysulfides and withstand volumetric expansion. Furthermore, results from in/ex-situ characterization techniques and density functional theory calculations support the significance of the polar and catalytic properties of cobalt sulfide as hosts for soluble sodium polysulfides that reduce the shuttle effect and display excellent electrochemical performance. The polar catalytic bipyramid prisms sulfur@cobalt sulfide composite exhibits a high capacity of 755 mAh g−1 in the second discharge and 675 mAh g−1 after 800 charge/discharge cycles, with an ultralow capacity decay rate of 0.0126 % at a high current density of 0.5 C. Additionally, at a high mass loading of 9.1 mg cm−2, sulfur@cobalt sulfide shows high capacity of 545 mAh g−1 at a current density of 0.5 C. This study demonstrates a hollow, polar, and catalytic sulfur host with a unique structure that can capture sodium polysulfides and speed up the reduction reaction of long chain sodium polysulfides to solid small chain polysulfides, which results in excellent electrochemical performance for sodium-sulfur batteries. Sodium sulfur batteries require efficient sulfur hosts that can capture soluble polysulfides and enable fast reduction kinetics. Here, authors report hollow catalytic bipyramid prism CoS2/C as efficient sulfur carriers, and investigate the reaction mechanism in the sodium sulfur battery.
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- Muhammad Kashif Aslam
- Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, 361005, China
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- Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 78712, USA.
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- Key Laboratory of Luminescence Analysis and Molecular Sensing (Southwest University), Ministry of Education, School of Materials and Energy, Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, PR China.
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Lu HC, Ghosh S, Katyal N, Lakhanpal VS, Gearba-Dolocan IR, Henkelman G, Milliron DJ. Synthesis and Dual-Mode Electrochromism of Anisotropic Monoclinic Nb 12O 29 Colloidal Nanoplatelets. ACS Nano 2020; 14:10068-10082. [PMID: 32806084 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c03283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Transition metal oxide nanocrystals with dual-mode electrochromism hold promise for smart windows enabling spectrally selective solar modulation. We have developed the colloidal synthesis of anisotropic monoclinic Nb12O29 nanoplatelets (NPLs) to investigate the dual-mode electrochromism of niobium oxide nanocrystals. The precursor for synthesizing NPLs was prepared by mixing NbCl5 and oleic acid to form a complex that was subsequently heated to form an oxide-like structure capped by oleic acid, denoted as niobium oxo cluster. By initiating the synthesis using niobium oxo clusters, preferred growth of NPLs over other polymorphs was observed. The structure of the synthesized NPLs was examined by X-ray diffraction in conjunction with simulations, revealing that the NPLs are monolayer monoclinic Nb12O29, thin in the [100] direction and extended along the b and c directions. Besides having monolayer thickness, NPLs show decreased intensity of Raman signal from Nb-O bonds with higher bond order when compared to bulk monoclinic Nb12O29, as interpreted by calculations. Progressive electrochemical reduction of NPL films led to absorbance in the near-infrared region (stage 1) followed by absorbance in both the visible and near-infrared regions (stage 2), thus exhibiting dual-mode electrochromism. The mechanisms underlying these two processes were distinguished electrochemically by cyclic voltammetry to determine the extent to which ion intercalation limits the kinetics, and by verifying the presence of localized electrons following ion intercalation using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Both results support that the near-infrared absorption results from capacitive charging, and the onset of visible absorption in the second stage is caused by ion intercalation.
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- Hsin-Che Lu
- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1589, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1589, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1589, United States
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- Texas Materials Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-0165, United States
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- McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712-1589, United States
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He J, Aggarwal K, Katyal N, He S, Chiang E, Dunning SG, Reynolds JE, Steiner A, Henkelman G, Que EL, Humphrey SM. Reversible Solid-State Isomerism of Azobenzene-Loaded Large-Pore Isoreticular Mg-CUK-1. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:6467-6471. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b13793] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Junpeng He
- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Crown Street, Liverpool L69 7ZD, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, United States
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Zhao Q, Katyal N, Seymour ID, Henkelman G, Ma T. Vanadium(III) Acetylacetonate as an Efficient Soluble Catalyst for Lithium–Oxygen Batteries. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201907477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Qin Zhao
- Institute of Clean Energy Chemistry Key Laboratory for Green Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry of Advanced Materials College of Chemistry Liaoning University Shenyang 110036 China
- Discipline of Chemistry The University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
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- Department of Chemistry The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences The University of Texas at Austin 105 E. 24th Street, Stop A5300 Austin Texas 78712 USA
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- Department of Chemistry The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences The University of Texas at Austin 105 E. 24th Street, Stop A5300 Austin Texas 78712 USA
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- Department of Chemistry The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences The University of Texas at Austin 105 E. 24th Street, Stop A5300 Austin Texas 78712 USA
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- Discipline of Chemistry The University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
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Zhao Q, Katyal N, Seymour ID, Henkelman G, Ma T. Vanadium(III) Acetylacetonate as an Efficient Soluble Catalyst for Lithium–Oxygen Batteries. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2019; 58:12553-12557. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201907477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2019] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Qin Zhao
- Institute of Clean Energy Chemistry Key Laboratory for Green Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry of Advanced Materials College of Chemistry Liaoning University Shenyang 110036 China
- Discipline of Chemistry The University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
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- Department of Chemistry The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences The University of Texas at Austin 105 E. 24th Street, Stop A5300 Austin Texas 78712 USA
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- Department of Chemistry The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences The University of Texas at Austin 105 E. 24th Street, Stop A5300 Austin Texas 78712 USA
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- Department of Chemistry The Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences The University of Texas at Austin 105 E. 24th Street, Stop A5300 Austin Texas 78712 USA
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- Discipline of Chemistry The University of Newcastle Callaghan NSW 2308 Australia
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Han H, Schlawitschek C, Katyal N, Stephan P, Gambaryan-Roisman T, Leroy F, Müller-Plathe F. Solid-Liquid Interface Thermal Resistance Affects the Evaporation Rate of Droplets from a Surface: A Study of Perfluorohexane on Chromium Using Molecular Dynamics and Continuum Theory. Langmuir 2017; 33:5336-5343. [PMID: 28492334 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b01410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
Abstract
We study the role of solid-liquid interface thermal resistance (Kapitza resistance) on the evaporation rate of droplets on a heated surface by using a multiscale combination of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and analytical continuum theory. We parametrize the nonbonded interaction potential between perfluorohexane (C6F14) and a face-centered-cubic solid surface to reproduce the experimental wetting behavior of C6F14 on black chromium through the solid-liquid work of adhesion (quantity directly related to the wetting angle). The thermal conductances between C6F14 and (100) and (111) solid substrates are evaluated by a nonequilibrium molecular dynamics approach for a liquid pressure lower than 2 MPa. Finally, we examine the influence of the Kapitza resistance on evaporation of droplets in the vicinity of a three-phase contact line with continuum theory, where the thermal resistance of liquid layer is comparable with the Kapitza resistance. We determine the thermodynamic conditions under which the Kapitza resistance plays an important role in correctly predicting the evaporation heat flux.
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- Haoxue Han
- Theoretische Physikalische Chemie, Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt , Alarich-Weiss-Straße 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Technische Universität Darmstadt , Alarich-Weiss-Straße 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Department of Applied Chemistry, Institute of Technology, BHU , Varanasi 221005, India
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- Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Technische Universität Darmstadt , Alarich-Weiss-Straße 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, Technische Universität Darmstadt , Alarich-Weiss-Straße 10, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Theoretische Physikalische Chemie, Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt , Alarich-Weiss-Straße 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Theoretische Physikalische Chemie, Eduard-Zintl-Institut für Anorganische und Physikalische Chemie, Technische Universität Darmstadt , Alarich-Weiss-Straße 8, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University , Princeton, New Jersey 08544, United States
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The ketogenic diet is intended for use in patients with epilepsy whose seizures are resistant to conventional drug therapy. It is a diet high in fat and low in carbohydrate and protein content, and is intended to produce ketosis from the incomplete metabolism of fats. It is safe and effective--many patients with severe, drug-resistant epilepsy show improvement. Limiting carbohydrate intake in patients to obtain the necessary ratio of fats to carbohydrates and protein requires careful planning and, in children, parental involvement. Although the ketogenic diet is professionally planned, an unrecognized source of carbohydrates is prescription and over-the-counter medications. If the carbohydrate content of medications is overlooked, ketosis can be inhibited with potential loss of seizure control occurring. Thus, it is essential for care providers and parents to know the carbohydrate content of medications, including not only the typical sugar content, but also the content of reduced carbohydrate (e.g., glycerin). From information supplied by drug manufacturers, we determined the carbohydrate content of commonly used medications. By knowing the carbohydrate content of these often used medications, the additional carbohydrate content of the medications can be taken into account and adjustments can be made in the ketogenic diet.
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- B McGhee
- Department of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., USA
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Howrie DL, Kraisinger M, McGhee HW, Crumrine PK, Katyal N. The ketogenic diet: the need for a multidisciplinary approach. Ann Pharmacother 1998; 32:384-5. [PMID: 9533070 DOI: 10.1345/aph.17201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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