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On the Synergy between Elemental Carbon and Inorganic Ions in the Determination of the Electrical Conductance Properties of Deposited Aerosols: Implications for Energy Applications

“…It noteworthy that the second conductance increase of WI-mix was smoother than the first one and was finally followed by a conductance decrease till 90% RH. As demonstrated in previous studies [8,98,99] the hygroscopic growth after the first DRH (i.e., that of AN) causes the dilution of the solution formed on the filter smoothing the second step of conductance increase (that of AS); moreover, at higher RH the continuous water condensation diluted the ion concentrations that at the end led to an electrical conductance decrease. The aforementioned behavior was also observed analyzing the SU-mix sample: a first electrical signal (1.41 μS RH −1 ) occurred at 60% RH in keeping with the low AN content (14%) and a second strongest conductance increase (3.08 μS RH −1 ) reached its maximum at 79% RH When winter and summer Po Valley composition (Section 2.4; WI-mix and SU-mix) are mixed with EC, a conductance signal, in keeping with the expected DRH, is measured.…”

Single-ion conducting polymer electrolytes as a key jigsaw piece for next-generation battery applications

“…The PFG-NMR is one of the typical structural characterization tools to obtain the ion diffusion coefficients 106 , but it is often challenged to be used for solid state electrolytes due to the extremely short transverse relaxation time in solid state materials 124 . Although the electrochemical characterization, including Hittorf, moving boundary, and electromotive force methods, have been successfully made to determine the transference number in liquid electrolytes [125][126][127] , those have been difficult to cover the solid state ionic conductors 128 . The potentiostatic polarization methods monitor the current changes upon small polarization across the electrolytes sandwiched with non-blocking electrodes (i.e.…”