Issue 32, 2020

Probing NaCl hydrate formation from aqueous solutions by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

Abstract

The cooling-induced formation of a hydrate in aqueous NaCl solutions was probed using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy (THz-TDS). It was found that the NaCl hydrate formation is accompanied by the emergence of four new absorption peaks at 1.60, 2.43, 3.34 and 3.78 THz. Combining X-ray diffraction measurements with solid-state based density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we assign the observed terahertz absorption peaks to the vibrational modes of the formed NaCl·2H2O hydrate during cooling. This work shows that THz-TDS based analysis has great potential in studying ionic hydrates and the newly revealed collective vibrational modes could be sensitive indicators to achieve quantitative analysis in phase transitions and lattice dynamics.

Graphical abstract: Probing NaCl hydrate formation from aqueous solutions by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 Mar 2020
Accepted
13 Jun 2020
First published
16 Jun 2020

Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020,22, 17791-17797

Probing NaCl hydrate formation from aqueous solutions by terahertz time-domain spectroscopy

L. Chen, G. Ren, L. Liu, P. Guo, E. Wang, Z. Zhu, J. Yang, J. Shen, Z. Zhang, L. Zhou, J. Zhang, B. Yang, W. Zhang, Y. Gao, H. Zhao and J. Han, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2020, 22, 17791 DOI: 10.1039/D0CP01571G

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