Significant Hydration Shell Formation Instead of Hydrogen Bonds in Nanoconfined Aqueous Electrolyte Solutions

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• 作者：Tomonori Ohba ; Kenji Hata ; Hirofumi Kanoh
• 刊名：The Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：October 31, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：134
• 期：43
• 页码：17850-17853
• 全文大小：201K
• 年卷期：v.134,no.43(October 31, 2012)
• ISSN：1520-5126

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Nanoscale confined electrolyte solutions are frequently observed, specifically in electrochemistry and biochemistry. However, the mechanism and structure of such electrolyte solutions are not well understood. We investigated the structure of aqueous electrolyte solutions in the internal nanospaces of single-walled carbon nanotubes, using synchrotron X-ray diffraction. The intermolecular distance between the water molecules in the electrolyte solution was increased because of anomalously strong hydration shell formation. Water correlation was further weakened at second-neighbor or longer distances. The anomalous hydrogen-bonding structure improves our understanding of electrolyte solutions in nanoenvironments.