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Hydrogen Charging of Aluminum using Friction in Water
Published on: January 28, 2020
Theoretical Study of Aluminum Hydroxide as a Hydrogen-Bonded Layered Material
Dongwook Kim1, Jong Hyun Jung2, Jisoon Ihm3
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Korea. dwwwkim@gmail.com.
Abstract:
In many layer-structured materials, constituent layers are bound through van der Waals (vdW) interactions. However, hydrogen bonding is another type of weak interaction which can contribute to the formation of multi-layered materials. In this work, we investigate aluminum hydroxide [Al(OH) 3 ] having hydrogen bonding as an interlayer binding mechanism. We study the crystal structures and electronic band structures of bulk, single-layer, and multi-layer Al(OH) 3 using density functional theory calculations. We find that hydrogen bonds across the constituent layers indeed give rise to interlayer binding stronger than vdW interactions, and a reduction of the band gap occurs for an isolated layer as compared to bulk Al(OH) 3 which is attributed to the emergence of surface states. We also consider the alkali-halide intercalation between layers and examine how the intercalated atoms affect the atomic and electronic structures of Al(OH) 3 .
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