Rechargeable batteries made from low-cost and abundant materials operating in safe aqueous electrolytes are attractive for large-scale energy storage. Sodium-ion battery is considered as a potential alternative of current lithium-ion battery. As sodium-intercalation compounds suitable for aqueous batteries are limited, we adopt a novel concept of Li(+)/Na(+) mixed-ion electrolytes to create two...

The exchange of lithium (Li) with sodium (Na) was explored in an effort to quantify cellular Na in the rat tail artery. Two phases of cellular Na were demonstrated by the kinetics of exchange at 37°C. Cellular Na, was rapidly lost following cell disruption and increased in proportion to potassium (K) loss during conventional Na enrichment in a Kfree medium. Cooling to 2°C almost abolished the t...

Passive movements of Li in dog red blood cells (RBC) ar like those of Na and protons in being stimulated by osmotic cell shrinkage and inhibited by amiloride. Li and protons have similar asymmetrical effects on Na-H exchange. When the intracellular fluid is made rich in Li or protons, Na-H exchange is stimulated. When the extracellular fluid is enriched in Li or protons, Na-H exchange is inhibi...

In microinjected Myxicola giant axons with elevated [Na]i, Na efflux was sensitive to Cao under some conditions. In Li seawater, sensitivity to Cao was high whereas in Na seawater, sensitivity to Cao was observed only upon elevation of [Ca]o above the normal value. In choline seawater, the sensitivity of Na efflux to Cao was less than that observed in Li seawater whereas Mg seawater failed to s...

The epithelial Na+ channel (ENaC) is highly selective for Na+ and Li+ over K+ and is blocked by the diuretic amiloride. ENaC is a heterotetramer made of two alpha, one beta, and one gamma homologous subunits, each subunit comprising two transmembrane segments. Amino acid residues involved in binding of the pore blocker amiloride are located in the pre-M2 segment of beta and gamma subunits, whic...

The complexive abilities of 5,11,17-tddert-butyl-23 amino-25.26,27,28-tet3propoxy-calix[4]arere and5,1127-tri-amino-23 acelyktert-butylamide-25,26,27,28-tetrabutoxy-calixplarene towards alkali metalions Lit Nat, Kt RIC and Cs+ in methanol-chloroform mixture have been evaluated at 25 °C, using UVVis spectrophotometric techniques. The results showed that the hgands are capable to complex with all...

We locate the putative global minimum structures of Na(x)Cs(55-x) and Li(x)Cs(55-x) nanoalloys through combined empirical potential and density functional theory calculations, and compare them to the structures of 55-atom Li-Na and Na-K nanoalloys obtained in a recent paper [A. Aguado and J. M. López, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 094302 (2010)]. Alkali nanoalloys are representative of isovalent metallic...

In human red cells, Li is ex t ruded against its own concentrat ion gradient if the external medium contains Na as a dominant cation. This uphill net Li extrusion occurs in the presence of external Na but not K, Rb, Cs, choline, Mg, or Ca, is ouabain-insensitive, inhibited by phloredn , and does not require the presence of cellular ATP. Li influx into human red cells has a ouabain-sensitive and...

We study the electronic properties (density of states, conductivity and thermopower) of some nearly–free–electron systems: the liquid alkali metals and two liquid alloys, Li–Na and Na–K. The study has been performed within the self– consistent second order Renormalized Propagator Perturbation Expansion (RPE) for the self–energy. The input ionic pseudopotentials and static correlation functions ...

In human red cells, Li is ex t ruded against its own concentrat ion gradient if the external medium contains Na as a dominant cation. This uphill net Li extrusion occurs in the presence of external Na but not K, Rb, Cs, choline, Mg, or Ca, is ouabain-insensitive, inhibited by phloredn , and does not require the presence of cellular ATP. Li influx into human red cells has a ouabain-sensitive and...