Authors: Makoto Yamaguchi Akihiro Ohira
Publish Date: 2016/08/18
Volume: 45, Issue: 11, Pages: 1548-1559
Abstract
Infrared absorption spectra of hydrated protons are very sensitive to their different structures that change with the number of water molecules as well as their hydrogen bonds with anions and/or solvent molecules Hydronium ion H3O+ in nonaqueous solutions of trifluoromethanesulfonic triflic acid monohydrate shows largely redshifted and very broad OH stretching bands in their infrared absorption spectra We found that four triflate anions and four hydronium ions form a hydrogenbonded cluster in which sulfur and oxygen atoms of anions and cations have a cubic structure with redshifted OH stretching bands from its ab initio molecular dynamics simulation large widths of the OH stretching absorption bands were successfully reproduced Based on the very similar infrared absorption bands of perfluorinated sulfonic acid ionomer membranes with low water content their acid sites are supposed to have very similar cluster configurationsThis work was financially supported by the Ministry of Economy Trade and Industry METI and the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization NEDO Japan Part of the computational results was obtained by using supercomputing resources at Cyberscience Center Tohoku University
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