Scientists from the Fritz Haber Institute, Sorbonne University, and Uppsala University have made a discovery that can help to improve our understanding of the behavior of ions in solutions. Their ...

Water is essential for all chemistry and life, yet understanding how it interacts with dissolved ions—such as sodium and magnesium—has long been a major scientific challenge. Now, an international ...

Ionic solvation dynamics in aqueous systems underpins phenomena ranging from biological signalling and enzyme catalysis to energy conversion and environmental remediation. When an ion enters water, ...

As the demand for safe, cost-effective energy storage solutions continues to grow, the limitations of traditional lithium-ion batteries in terms of safety and resource scarcity become more pronounced.

Cation exchange (CE) is known to be a powerful tool for the synthesis of heterogeneous nanocrystals and is currently divided into two main routes: ion solvation-driven CE reactions and thermally ...