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Title: Emerging investigator series: ion diffusivities in nanoconfined interfacial water films contribute to mineral carbonation thresholds

Abstract

The dynamics and reactivity of nanoconfined fluids play critical roles across a wide range of environmental and technological systems, though reaction mechanisms and kinetics are not well understood. Here, the carbonation kinetics of forsterite (Mg2SiO4) exposed to 90 atm supercritical carbon dioxide at 35–65 °C and 85–100% relative humidity (RH) was monitored with in situ X-ray diffraction, and partner molecular dynamics simulations were used to describe the free energy landscape of Mg2+ adsorption and diffusion on forsterite surfaces covered in water films 3–10 monolayers thick. The collective findings reveal how decreasing the water film thickness by ~1.4 monolayers, from ~0.92 to ~0.64 nm, inhibited reaction rates by up to 97%, promoted anhydrous Mg-carbonate (magnesite, MgCO3) precipitation, and more than doubled the apparent activation energy of carbonation. The transport simulations suggest that four monolayers are required to enable sufficiently facile Mg2+ diffusion, helping explain previously observed water film thickness-dependent reactivity thresholds.

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ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4];  [5]; ORCiD logo [3]
  1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate; Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)
  2. Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY (United States)
  3. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Physical and Computational Sciences Directorate
  4. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Environmental Molecular Sciences Lab. (EMSL)
  5. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
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Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
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USDOE Office of Fossil Energy (FE)
OSTI Identifier:
1633408
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1602886
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-149770
Journal ID: ISSN 2051-8153; ESNNA4
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Environmental Science: Nano
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2051-8153
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

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Miller, Quin R. S., Kaszuba, John P., Kerisit, Sebastien N., Schaef, H. Todd, Bowden, Mark E., McGrail, B. Peter, and Rosso, Kevin M. Emerging investigator series: ion diffusivities in nanoconfined interfacial water films contribute to mineral carbonation thresholds. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1039/c9en01382b.
Miller, Quin R. S., Kaszuba, John P., Kerisit, Sebastien N., Schaef, H. Todd, Bowden, Mark E., McGrail, B. Peter, & Rosso, Kevin M. Emerging investigator series: ion diffusivities in nanoconfined interfacial water films contribute to mineral carbonation thresholds. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9en01382b
Miller, Quin R. S., Kaszuba, John P., Kerisit, Sebastien N., Schaef, H. Todd, Bowden, Mark E., McGrail, B. Peter, and Rosso, Kevin M. Thu . "Emerging investigator series: ion diffusivities in nanoconfined interfacial water films contribute to mineral carbonation thresholds". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c9en01382b. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1633408.
@article{osti_1633408,
title = {Emerging investigator series: ion diffusivities in nanoconfined interfacial water films contribute to mineral carbonation thresholds},
author = {Miller, Quin R. S. and Kaszuba, John P. and Kerisit, Sebastien N. and Schaef, H. Todd and Bowden, Mark E. and McGrail, B. Peter and Rosso, Kevin M.},
abstractNote = {The dynamics and reactivity of nanoconfined fluids play critical roles across a wide range of environmental and technological systems, though reaction mechanisms and kinetics are not well understood. Here, the carbonation kinetics of forsterite (Mg2SiO4) exposed to 90 atm supercritical carbon dioxide at 35–65 °C and 85–100% relative humidity (RH) was monitored with in situ X-ray diffraction, and partner molecular dynamics simulations were used to describe the free energy landscape of Mg2+ adsorption and diffusion on forsterite surfaces covered in water films 3–10 monolayers thick. The collective findings reveal how decreasing the water film thickness by ~1.4 monolayers, from ~0.92 to ~0.64 nm, inhibited reaction rates by up to 97%, promoted anhydrous Mg-carbonate (magnesite, MgCO3) precipitation, and more than doubled the apparent activation energy of carbonation. The transport simulations suggest that four monolayers are required to enable sufficiently facile Mg2+ diffusion, helping explain previously observed water film thickness-dependent reactivity thresholds.},
doi = {10.1039/c9en01382b},
journal = {Environmental Science: Nano},
number = 4,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2020},
month = {Thu Feb 20 00:00:00 EST 2020}
}

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