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The structure of polar liquids and electrolytic solutions, such as water and aqueous electrolytes, at interfaces underlies numerous phenomena in physics, chemistry, biology, and engineering. In this work, we develop a continuum theory that…

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We study the variation of the dielectric response of ionic aqueous solutions as function of their ionic strength. The effect of salt on the dielectric constant appears through the coupling between ions and dipolar water molecules. On a…

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Efficient large-scale computer simulations of aqueous solutions require the use of accurate but simple empirical force fields for water. However, the complexity of these systems evidences the difficulties in describing solution properties…

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Interfaces involving coexisting phases in condensed matter are essential in various examples of soft matter phenomena such as wetting, nucleation, morphology, phase separation kinetics, membranes, phase coexistence in nanomaterials, etc.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-08 E. Mayoral , A. Gama Goicochea

Beyond a threshold, electric or magnetic fields cause a dielectric or ferromagnetic fluid drop respectively to develop conical tips. We analyze the appearance of the conical tips and the associated shape transition of the drop using a local…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Hao Li , Thomas C. Halsey , Alexander Lobkovsky

Understanding the pressure-dependent dielectric properties of water is crucial for a wide range of scientific and practical applications. In this study, we employ a deep neural network trained on density functional theory data to…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-31 Yizhi Song , Xifan Wu

We demonstrate that with two small modifications, the popular dielectric continuum model is capable of predicting, with high accuracy, ion solvation thermodynamics in numerous polar solvents, and ion solvation free energies in…

We investigate the temperature dependence of thermodynamic (density, isobaric heat capacity), dynamical (self-diffusion coefficient, shear viscosity), and dielectric properties of several water models, the commonly employed TIP3P water…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-04-13 Tatiana I. Morozova , Nicolas A. Garcia , Jean-Louis Barrat

There is a long-standing question about the molecular configuration of interfacial water molecules in the proximity of solid surfaces, particularly carbon atoms which play a crucial role in electrochemistry and biology. In this study, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-03 Iman Ahmadabadi , Ali Esfandiar , Ali Hassanali , Mohammad Reza Ejtehadi

The dielectric permittivity of liquid water is a fundamental property that underlies its distinctive behaviors in numerious physical, biological, and chemical processes. Within a machine learning framework, we present a unified approach to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-08-11 Kehan Cai , Chunyi Zhang , Xifan Wu

The intercalated water into nanopores exhibits anomalous properties such as ultralow dielectric constant.~Multi-scale modeling and simulations are used to investigate the dielectric properties of various crystalline two-dimensional ices and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-02 S. Ghasemi , M. Alihosseini , F. Peymanirad , H. Jalali , S. A. Ketabi , F. Khoeini , M. Neek-Amal

The surface of a polar liquid presents a special environment for the solvation and organization of charged solutes, which differ from bulk behaviors in important ways. These differences have motivated many attempts to understand…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-07 Stephen J. Cox , Phillip L. Geissler

In this work we present the dielectric behavior of water with a novel flexible model that improved all three sites water models Different concentrations of the ionic liquid 1- butyl-3-methylimidazolium [bmim]…

The interface between the vapor and liquid phase of quadrupolar-dipolar fluids is the seat of an electric interfacial potential whose influence on ion solvation and distribution is not yet fully understood. To obtain further microscopic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-12 Lorand Horvath , Titus Beu , Manoel Manghi , John Palmeri

Four results associated with the diffuse-interface model (DIM) for contact lines are reported in this paper. First, a boundary condition is derived, which states that the fluid near a solid wall must have a certain density $\rho_{0}$…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-27 E. S. Benilov

The structure of liquid water in the proximity of an interface can deviate significantly from that of bulk water, with surface-induced structural perturbations typically converging to bulk values at about ~1 nm from the interface. While…

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Recent molecular simulation and integral equation results alkali-halide ion pair potentials-of-mean-force in water are discussed. Dielectric model calculations are implemented to check that these models produce that characteristic structure…

chem-ph · Physics 2008-02-03 Lawrence R. Pratt , Gerhard Hummer , Angel E. Garcia

To comprehend the complexities of the ice-water interface, we perform a study that attempts to correlate the altered dynamics of water to its perturbed structure at, and due to, the interface. The deviation from bulk values of structural…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-08-02 Saumyak Mukherjee , Sayantan Mondal , Biman Bagchi

The model Tip4p/{\epsilon} for water is tested for the presence of thermodynamic and dy- namic anomalies. Molecular dynamic simulations for this model were performed and we show that for this system the density versus temperature at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-08-12 Raul Fuentes-Azcatl , Marcia C. Barbosa

A statistical mechanics expression is derived for the space-dependent dielectric permittivity of a polar solvent near an interface. The asymptotic behaviour of this local permittivity is calculated in the low density limit, near a planar…

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