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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 12, 期 49, 页码 11980-11986出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03314
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- U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
- Laboratory Directed Research and Development [20-SI-004]
Ion (de)hydration is a key step in interfacial processes, and predicting its kinetics remains challenging. Static proxies like hydration energy and valence are useful but cannot fully capture the dynamic softness of the hydration shell. Dynamic descriptors are essential for correctly describing ion transfer processes.
Ion (de)hydration is a key rate-determining step in interfacial processes from corrosion to electrochemical energy storage. However, predicting the kinetics of ion (de)hydration remains challenging, prompting the use of static proxies such as hydration energy and valence. While useful for assessing thermodynamic preferences, such descriptors cannot fully capture the dynamical softness of the hydration shell that dictates kinetics. Accordingly, we use first-principles molecular dynamics to analyze hydration shell softness for a diverse set of metal cations. Three dynamic metrics are introduced to intuitively describe the bond rigidity, shape deformability, and exchange fluidity of the solvation shell. Together, these metrics capture the relevant physics in the static descriptors, while offering a far more complete and efficient representation for the overall propensity for (de)hydration. Application to the hydrated ion set demonstrates a weak connection between dynamical softness and hydration energy, confirming that dynamical descriptors of hydration are key for correctly describing ion transfer processes.
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