Molecular dynamics of preferential adsorption in mixed alkali–halide electrolytes at graphene electrodes

化学 吸附 电解质 无机化学 石墨烯 碱金属 水溶液 化学物理 离子 电极 物理化学 纳米技术 材料科学 有机化学
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Jan Dočkal,Martin Lı́sal,Filip Moučka
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期刊:Journal of Chemical Physics [American Institute of Physics]
卷期号:157 (8) 被引量:6
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DOI:10.1063/5.0097425
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Understanding the microscopic behavior of aqueous electrolyte solutions in contact with graphene and related carbon surfaces is important in electrochemical technologies, such as capacitive deionization or supercapacitors. In this work, we focus on preferential adsorption of ions in mixed alkali-halide electrolytes containing different fractions of Li+/Na+ or Li+/K+ and/or Na+/K+ cations with Cl- anions dissolved in water. We performed molecular dynamics simulations of the solutions in contact with both neutral and positively and negatively charged graphene surfaces under ambient conditions, using the effectively polarizable force field. The simulations show that large ions are often intuitively attracted to oppositely charged electrodes. In contrast, the adsorption behavior of small ions tends to be counterintuitive. In mixed-cation solutions, one of the cations always supports the adsorption of the other cation, while the other cation weakens the adsorption of the first cation. In mixed-cation solutions containing large and small cations simultaneously, adsorption of the larger cations varies dramatically with the electrode charge in an intuitive way, while adsorption of the smaller cations changes oppositely, i.e., in a counterintuitive way. For (Li/K)Cl mixed-cation solutions, these effects allow the control of Li+ adsorption by varying the electrode charge, whereas, for LiCl single-salt solutions, Li+ adsorption is nearly independent of the electrode charge. We rationalize this cation-cation lever effect as a result of a competition between three driving forces: (i) direct graphene-ion interactions, (ii) the strong tendency of the solutions to saturate the network of non-covalent intermolecular bonds, and (iii) the tendency to suppress local charge accumulation in any region larger than typical interparticle distances. We analyze the driving forces in detail using a general method for intermolecular bonding based on spatial distribution functions and different contributions to the total charge density profiles. The analysis helps to predict whether an ion is more affected by each of the three driving forces, depending on the strength of the ion solvation shells and the compatibility between the contributions of the charge density profiles due to the ion and water molecules. This approach is general and can also be applied to other solutions under different thermodynamic conditions.
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