Liquid Madelung energy accounts for the huge potential shift in electrochemical systems.

ABSTRACT: Achievement of carbon neutrality requires the development of electrochemical technologies suitable for practical energy storage and conversion. In any electrochemical system, electrode potential is the central variable that regulates the driving force of redox reactions. However, quantitative understanding of the electrolyte dependence has been limited to the classic Debye-Hückel theory that approximates the Coulombic interactions in the electrolyte under the dilute limit conditions. Therefore, accurate expression of electrode potential for practical electrochemical systems has been a holy grail of electrochemistry research for over a century. Here we show that the 'liquid Madelung potential' based on the conventional explicit treatment of solid-state Coulombic interactions enables quantit

SUBMITTER: Takenaka N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10876980 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature