Tunable Electrochemical Entropy through Solvent Ordering by a Supramolecular Host.

ABSTRACT: An aqueous electrochemically controlled host-guest encapsulation system demonstrates a large and synthetically tunable redox entropy change. Electrochemical entropy is the basis for thermally regenerative electrochemical cycles (TRECs), which utilize reversible electrochemical processes with large molar entropy changes for thermogalvanic waste-heat harvesting and electrochemical cooling, among other potential applications. A supramolecular host-guest system demonstrates a molar entropy change of 4 times that of the state-of-the-art aqueous TREC electrolyte potassium ferricyanide. Upon encapsulation of a guest, water molecules that structurally resemble amorphous ice are displaced from the host cavity, leveraging a change in the degrees of freedom and ordering of the solvent rather than the

SUBMITTER: Xia KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10683002 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature