Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Critical role of water structure around interlayer ions for ion storage in layered double hydroxides

  • Tomohito Sudare,
  • Takuro Yamaguchi,
  • Mizuki Ueda,
  • Hiromasa Shiiba,
  • Hideki Tanaka,
  • Mongkol Tipplook,
  • Fumitaka Hayashi,
  • Katsuya Teshima

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34124-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Structured water is ubiquitous but not fully understood in confinement. Here authors show that the structure of water is sensitive to the configuration of ions in the nanoconfinement and governs ion storage in layered materials.