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Using a carefully justified development of Debye-Huckel theory for highly asymmetric electrolytes, one finds that a region of expanded phase instability, or miscibility gap, can appear for charge-stabilised colloidal suspensions at high…
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We report that an electro-osmotic instability of concentration enrichment in curved geometries for an aqueous electrolyte, as opposed to the well-known one, is initiated exclusively at the enriched interface (anode), rather than at the…
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Next-generation high-energy-density batteries require ideally stable metal anodes, for which smooth metal deposits during battery recharging are considered a sign of interfacial stability that can ensure high efficiency and long cycle life.…