Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

Unconventional interfacial water structure of highly concentrated aqueous electrolytes at negative electrode polarizations

  • Chao-Yu Li,
  • Ming Chen,
  • Shuai Liu,
  • Xinyao Lu,
  • Jinhui Meng,
  • Jiawei Yan,
  • Héctor D. Abruña,
  • Guang Feng,
  • Tianquan Lian

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33129-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Water-in-salt electrolytes can be useful for future electrochemical energy storage systems. Here, the authors investigate the potential-dependent double-layer structures at the interface between a gold electrode and a highly concentrated aqueous electrolyte solution via in situ Raman measurements.