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We perform computational investigations of electrolyte-mediated interactions of charged colloidal particles confined within nanochannels. We investigate the role of discrete ion effects, valence, and electrolyte strength on colloid-wall…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-28 Inderbir S. Sidhu , Amalie L. Frischknecht , Paul J. Atzberger

Polymer electrolytes are intensely investigated for use as solid electrolytes in next generation lithium-ion and lithium-metal batteries. However, little is known about the structural and dynamical properties of polymer electrolytes close…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-12-02 Andreas Thum , Diddo Diddens , Andreas Heuer

The study of the electrical double layer lies at the heart of colloidal and interfacial science. The standard mean-field Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory is incapable of modeling many phenomena originated from ion correlation. An important…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-26 Nikhil R. Agrawal , Rui Wang

Electrical double layers play a key role in a variety of electrochemical systems. The mean free path of secondary electrons in aqueous solutions is on the order of a nanometer, making them suitable for probing of ultrathin electrical double…

Recent discoveries of topological phases realized in electronic states in solids have revealed an important role of topology, which ubiquitously appears in various materials in nature. Many well-known materials have turned out to be…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-09-14 Motoaki Hirayama , Satoru Matsuishi , Hideo Hosono , Shuichi Murakami

Electrical double layers (EDLs) arise when an electrolyte is in contact with a charged surface, and are encountered in several application areas including batteries, supercapacitors, electrocatalytic reactors, and colloids. In the modeling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-08-24 Aniruddha Seal , Utkarsh Tiwari , Ankur Gupta , Ananth Govind Rajan

We investigate the complexation of a highly charged sphere with a long flexible polyelectrolyte, \textit{both negatively charged} in salt free environment. Electroneutrality is insured by the presence of divalent counterions. Using…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Rene Messina , Christian Holm , Kurt Kremer

We propose a detailed description of the structure of the layer formed by polyelectrolyte chains adsorbed onto an oppositely charged surface in the semi-dilute regime. We combine the mean-field Poisson-Boltzmann-Edwards theory and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-20 Manoel Manghi , Miguel Aubouy

Surfaces of metal oxides at working conditions are usually electrified due to the acid-base chemistry. The charged interface compensated with counterions forms the so-called electric double layer. The coupling of surface chemistry and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-07-02 Chao Zhang , Jürg Hutter , Michiel Sprik

Density functional theory is used to describe electrolyte solutions in contact with electrodes of planar or spherical shape. For the electrolyte solutions we consider the so-called civilized model, in which all species present are treated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-04-24 Andreas Reindl , Markus Bier , S. Dietrich

The work reviews on a general level various modified Poisson-Boltzmann equations and demonstrates their use on the specific system of charged particles at an interface. This system is special, first, because it exhibits the long-range…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-11-14 Derek Frydel , Martin Oettel

The electrical double layer (EDL) at aqueous solution-metal oxide interfaces critically affects many fundamental processes in electrochemistry, geology and biology, yet understanding its microscopic structure is challenging for both theory…

We show that topological defects in an ion-doped nematic liquid crystal can be used to manipulate the surface charge distribution on chemically homogeneous, charge-regulating external surfaces, using a minimal theoretical model. In…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-07-16 Miha Ravnik , Jeffrey C. Everts

A Poisson-Boltzmann approach is used to determine the double-layer integral and differential capacitances in a finite-length situation for an electrolytic cell. By means of simple analytical calculations, it is shown how these quantities…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-03 Roberta Rarumy Ribeiro de Almeida , Luiz Roberto Evangelista , Giovanni Barbero

Ionic behaviors, including ion distributions and hydration characteristics at solid-liquid interfaces, are important research interests in many important applications, such as electric double-layer capacitors and water lubrication. Here, we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Bowen Ai , Zekun Gong , Long Ma , Hongwen Zhang , Tianyi Sui , Yinghua Qiu

A recently proposed local second contact value theorem [Henderson D., Boda D., J. Electroanal. Chem., 2005, 582, 16] for the charge profile of an electric double layer is used in conjunction with the existing Monte Carlo data from the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-07-16 L. B. Bhuiyan , D. Henderson , S. Sokołowski

In this paper, starting from the Bogoliubov-Born-Green-Yvon equations of the liquid-state theory, we formulate two equivalent approaches for the calculation of the total density profile and of the charge density profile of ionic fluids near…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-20 Myroslav Holovko , Vojko Vlachy , Dung di Caprio

The surface bound electronic states of three-dimensional topological insulators, as well as the edge states in two-dimensional topological insulators, are investigated in the presence of a circularly polarized light. The strong coupling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrii Iurov , Godfrey Gumbs , Oleksiy Roslyak , Danhong Huang

Ionic liquids (ILs) are appealing electrolytes for their favorable physicochemical properties. However, despite their longstanding use, understanding the capacitive behavior of ILs remains challenging. This is largely due to the formation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-02 YeongKyu Lee , JunBeom Cho , Yongkyu Lee , Won Bo Lee , YongSeok Jho

The electric double layer (EDL) formed around charged nanostructures at the liquid-solid interface determines their electrochemical activity and influences their electrical and optical polarizability. We experimentally demonstrate that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-29 Kevin Namink , Xuanhui Meng , Marc T. M. Koper , Philipp Kukura , Sanli Faez