The primary objective of this thesis is the development of methods to generate and detect local phonons in aqueous solutions, which lead to new understanding …
In condensed phase chemical dynamics, thermalization and caging by solvent molecules play major roles in affecting the outcome of a reaction by altering the excited …
Lithium metal batteries are a promising energy storage solution due to their high theoretical gravimetric capacity (3780 mAh/g), lithium’s low density (0.534 g/cm3), and low …
Improvements to lithium-ion battery performance have been hampered by the lack of operando imaging techniques to study electrodes changes in unmodified batteries. In this work, …
Clathrate hydrates are inclusion compounds, where water forms crystalline lattices to encapsulate the hydrophobic guest molecules. However, as a gas-storage material, the controllable release of …