Abstract
This experimental and theoretical study investigates how dynamic solvation environments in switchable ionic liquids regulate the composition of nanoparticulate green rust. A custom microfluidic device enables in situ X-ray absorption spectroscopy to elucidate characterization of the solvent structure and speciation of reaction intermediates of air-sensitive nanoparticles growing in solution.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 11239-11242 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Chemical Communications |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 75 |
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| State | Published - 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
We thank the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Science Basic Energy Sciences Early Career Research Program FWP 67038 for funding. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is operated by Battelle for the DOE under Contract DE-AC05-76RL01830. Computational resources were provided through allocation at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. We thank Wei Zhang and Bingwen Liu for their technical support to this work. We acknowledge helpful comments and suggestions regarding XAFS analysis from John Fulton. The use of the National Synchrotron Light Source (X18 A beamline) at the Brookhaven National Laboratory was supported by the U.S. DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-SC0012704.