The Coordination Chemistry of f‐Block Elements in Molten Salts

S Jiang, Y Liu, L Wang, Z Chai… - Chemistry–A European …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The coordination chemistry of f‐block elements (lanthanide and actinide) in molten salts has
become a resounding topic in view of its great importance to the research and development …

Water-In-Salt LiTFSI Aqueous Electrolytes (2): Transport Properties and Li+ Dynamics Based on Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Y Zhang, EJ Maginn - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2021 - ACS Publications
The transport properties of water-in-salt lithium bis (trifluoromethane sulfonyl) imide (LiTFSI)
aqueous electrolytes were studied using classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. At …

Do Ionic Liquids Slow Down in Stages?

B Borah, GR Acharya, D Grajeda… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
High impact recent articles have reported on the existence of a liquid–liquid (L–L) phase
transition as a function of both pressure and temperature in ionic liquids (ILs) containing the …

A holistic approach for elucidating local structure, dynamics, and speciation in molten salts with high structural disorder

S Roy, Y Liu, M Topsakal, E Dias… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
To examine ion solvation, exchange, and speciation for minority components in molten salts
(MS) typically found as corrosion products, we propose a multimodal approach combining …

A brief guide to the structure of high-temperature molten salts and key aspects making them different from their low-temperature relatives, the ionic liquids

S Sharma, AS Ivanov, CJ Margulis - The Journal of Physical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
High-temperature molten salt research is undergoing somewhat of a renaissance these
days due to the apparent advantage of these systems in areas related to clean and …

Structural Origins of Viscosity in Imidazolium and Pyrrolidinium Ionic Liquids Coupled with the NTf2 Anion

R Ogbodo, WV Karunaratne, GR Acharya… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquid viscosity is one of the most important properties to consider for practical
applications. Yet, the connection between local structure and viscosity remains an open …

Unraveling Local Structure of Molten Salts via X-ray Scattering, Raman Spectroscopy, and Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics

S Roy, M Brehm, S Sharma, F Wu… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, we resolve a long-standing issue concerning the local structure of molten
MgCl2 by employing a multimodal approach, including X-ray scattering and Raman …

Prediction on local structure and properties of LiCl-KCl-AlCl3 ternary molten salt with deep learning potential

M Bu, T Feng, G Lu - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract LiCl-KCl-AlCl 3 molten salt is the main electrolyte for Al-Li alloys electrolysis. It's
beneficial for the electrolyte optimization to have a deeply understand to the local structure …

Refined classical force field for choline chloride and ethylene glycol mixtures over wide composition range

Y Zhang, H Squire, B Gurkan… - Journal of Chemical & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
A classical force field based on the General Amber Force Field (GAFF) was refined for the
simulation of choline chloride (ChCl) and ethylene glycol (EG) mixtures over a wide …

Thermodynamic investigation of the NaCl-KCl salt system from 25 to 950° C

J Lonergan, V Goncharov, M Swinhart… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
NaCl-KCl molten salt system has been proposed as a primary component of several
promising heat transfer eutectics and fuel host for Generation IV molten salt reactors (MSR) …