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Quantifying Intermembrane Distances with Serial Image Dilations
Published on: September 28, 2018
Interplay of host volume variations and internal distortions in the course of intercalation into disordered matrices
E V Vakarin1, Germà Garcia-Belmonte, J P Badiali
1UMR 7575 LECA ENSCP-UPMC-CNRS, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, 75231 Cedex 05 Paris, France.
Abstract:
Based on a combination of the distortive lattice gas model and the maximum information entropy approach, the thermodynamics of insertion into disordered hosts is analyzed. It is found that the isotherm specificities can be explained as a cooperative interplay of the host volume expansion and the internal distortions, which tend to optimize the host structure inducing a local lowering of the insertion energetic cost. Behavior of amorphous LixWO3 films of different thicknesses is discussed in this context.
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