Reversal of Salt Concentration Dependencies of Salt and Water Diffusivities in Polymer Electrolyte Membranes

Dipak Aryal; Venkat Ganesan

doi:10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00333

Reversal of Salt Concentration Dependencies of Salt and Water Diffusivities in Polymer Electrolyte Membranes

Dipak Aryal, Venkat Ganesan

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Abstract

Recent experimental results have shown that transport properties of salt ions and water in charged polymer membranes exhibit an intriguing dependence on salt concentration that is opposite to that seen in electrolyte solutions. Motivated by such observations, in this study we have used atomistic molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the molecular level mechanisms underlying the transport properties of salt solutions in charged polymer membranes. Our results are in qualitative agreement with experimental results and suggest that the mobility of the salt ions is influenced by electrostatic interactions with the charged groups in the polymer membrane. The mobility of water molecules is shown to arise as a consequence of the influence of salt on the hydration characteristics in solution and polymer electrolyte systems.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	739-744
Number of pages	6
Journal	ACS Macro Letters
Volume	7
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00333
State	Published - Jun 6 2018
Externally published	Yes

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KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2021-04-13
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): OSR2016-CRG5-2993-1
Acknowledgements: We thank Prof. Benny Freeman and Dr. Jovan Kamcev for many useful discussions on this topic and also for sharing a preprint of their article in advance of submission. We acknowledge funding in part by grants from the Robert A. Welch Foundation (Grant F1599), the National Science Foundation (CBET-17069698 and DMR- 1721512), and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (OSR2016-CRG5-2993-1). Acknowledgment is also made to the Donors of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund for partial support of this research (56715-ND9). The authors acknowledge the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) for computing resources.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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Inorganic Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Materials Chemistry
Polymers and Plastics

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