Samantha T. Hung

TL;DR: Bao et al. as discussed by the authors developed low-concentration electrolytes with a single-solvent and single-salt formulation, offering promise for high-energy and long-cycling Li metal batteries.

TL;DR: Electronic structure calculations of the energy profile on a model silica surface confirm that silanol groups, particularly those of the vicinal type, can reduce the activation energy and reaction endothermicity through the donation of hydrogen bonds to the reactant, transition state, and product complexes.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the commonly invoked two-state, or core-shell, model is a more appropriate description of spectral diffusion, and model the full time-dependence of the measured dynamics for all pore sizes and extract the "core" and "shell" dynamical correlation functions and SeCN- spatial probability distributions.

TL;DR: In this article , a family of fluorinated ethyl methyl carbonates (F1EMC), difluoroethyl methyl carbonate (F2EMC) and trifluorethyl methyl methyl carbonite (F3EMC)-were designed and synthesized to yield different numbers of F atoms.

TL;DR: The broader IR absorption spectrum and a shorter vibrational lifetime of the vibrational probe, selenocyanate anion (SeCN-), in IM vs 1-MeIM indicate that stronger hydrogen bonding exists between SeCN- and IM, and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations support the strong hydrogen bond formation through the HN moiety.