Inorganic reaction mechanisms in solution

这项建议有两个总体目标。一个是提供申请人在过去50年中对溶液中无机化学反应机制的研究所产生的几个科学问题的答案。这项工作的一个特点是使用非常高的压力提供机械信息，最近的电化学过程。高压对化学过程的影响具有内在的科学意义，并与遇到高压的几种技术和学科有关（例如，海洋学、电能产生和储存、地质学、材料科学）。然而，我们强调，这项工作的动机主要是获得基本的科学知识。我们还建议继续在环境压力下对硅和铝的水化学进行研究，这强调了它们的反应速率，并且与几种技术有关，包括催化剂（沸石）的制造，铝精炼和从油砂中提取石油。

This proposal has two overall objectives. One is to provide answers to several scientific questions generated by the applicant's research over the last 5 decades into the mechanisms of inorganic chemical reactions in solution. A special feature of this work has been the use of very high pressures to provide mechanistic information, most recently on electrochemical processes. The effects of high pressures on chemical processes are of intrinsic scientific interest and have relevance to several technologies and disciplines in which high pressures are encountered (e.g., oceanography, electrical energy generation and storage, geology, materials science). We stress, however, that the motivation of this work is primarily the acquisition of basic scientific knowledge. We also propose to continue our work at ambient pressure on the aqueous chemistry of silicon and aluminum, which emphasizes the rates of their reactions and which has relevance to several technologies including the manufacture of catalysts (zeolites), aluminum refining, and petroleum extraction from oil sands.