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Ionic diffusion and proton transfer in aqueous solutions of alkali metal salts.
Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : PCCP 2017 August 10
We report on a series of ab initio molecular dynamics investigations on LiCl, NaCl, and KCl aqueous solutions under the effect of static electric fields. We have found that although in low-to-moderate field intensity regimes the well-known sequence of cationic mobilities μ(K+ ) > μ(Na+ ) > μ(Li+ ) (i.e., the bigger the cation the higher the mobility) is recovered, from intense field strengths this intuitive rule is no longer verified. In fact, field-induced water molecular dissociations lead to more complex phenomena regulating the standard migration properties of the simplest monovalent cations. The water dissociation threshold is lowered from 0.35 V Å-1 to 0.25 V Å-1 by the presence of charged species in all samples. However, notwithstanding a one-stage process of water ionization and proton conduction takes place at 0.25 V Å-1 in the electrolyte solutions where "structure maker" cations are present (i.e., LiCl and NaCl), the KCl aqueous solution shows some hindrance in establishing a proton conductive regime, which is characterized by the same proton conduction threshold of neat water (i.e., 0.35 V Å-1 ). In addition, it turns out that protons flow easily in the LiCl (σp = 3.0 S cm-1 ) solution and then - in descending order - in the NaCl (σp = 2.5 S cm-1 ) and KCl (σp = 2.3 S cm-1 ) electrolyte solutions. The protonic conduction efficiency is thus inversely proportional to the ionic radii of the cations present in the samples. Moreover, Cl- anions act as a sort of "protonic well" for high field intensities, further lowering the overall proton transfer efficiency of the aqueous solutions. As a consequence, all the recorded protonic conductivities are lower than that for neat water (σp = 7.8 S cm-1 ), which strongly indicates that devices exploiting the proton transfer ability should be designed so as to minimize the presence of ionic impurities.
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