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Anomalous Ion Confinement Penalties and Giant Ion-Screening Effects in One-Dimensional Nanopores
Kevin Leung
Nanoconfinement reduces the favorable hydration free energies of single ions, which is correlated with ion rejection and modified chemical reactivity in water-filled nanopores. Man…
Adsorption at Nanoconfined Solid-Water Interfaces
Anastasia G. Ilgen, Kevin Leung, Louise J. Criscenti +1
Reactions at solid-water interfaces play a foundational role in water treatment systems, catalysis, chemical separations, and in predicting chemical fate and transport in the envir…
First Principles Determination of the Potential-of-Zero-Charge in an Alumina-coated Aluminum/Water Interface Model for Corrosion Applications
Kevin Leung
The surfaces of most metals immersed in aqueous electrolytes have a several-nanometer-thick oxide/hydroxide surface layer. This gives rise to the existence of both metal|oxide and…
Galvanic Corrosion and Electric Field in Lithium Anode Passivation Films: Effects on Self-Discharge
Kevin Leung, Laura C. Merrill, Katharine L. Harrison
Battery interfaces help govern rate capability, safety/stability, cycle life, and self-discharge, but significant gaps remain in our understanding at atomic length scales that can…
First Principles, Explicit Interface Studies of Oxygen Vacancy and Chloride in Alumina Films for Corrosion Applications
Kevin Leung
Pitting corrosion is a much-studied and technologically relevant subject. However, the fundamental mechanisms responsible for the breakdown of the passivating oxide layer are still…
Edge-Propagation Discharge Mechanism in CFx Batteries -- a First Principles and Experimental Study
Kevin Leung, Noah B. Schorr, Matthew Mayer +3
Graphite fluoride (CFx) cathodes coupled with lithium anodes yield one of the highest theoretical energy densities (>860 Wh/g) among primary batteries. In practice, the observed di…