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In this review, we shortly summarize the basic theoretical milestones achieved in the mean-field theory of room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) on charged electrodes since the publication of Kornyshev's seminal paper in 2007. We pay…
Molecular dynamics simulations were employed to study the wetting behavior of nanoscale aqueous hydrophilic and hydrophobic Imidazolium based ionic liquid (IL) droplets on a solid graphite substrate subjected to the perpendicular electric…
Transfer-matrix methods, with the help of finite-size scaling and conformal invariance concepts, are used to investigate the critical behavior of two-dimensional square-lattice Ising spin-1/2 systems with first- and second-neighbor…
Electrical charging of parallel plates confining a model ionic liquid down to nanoscale distances yields a variety of charge-induced changes in the structural features of the confined film. That includes even-odd switching of the structural…
We study the dynamical behavior of a square lattice Ising model with exchange and dipolar interactions by means of Monte Carlo simulations. After a sudden quench to low temperatures we find that the system may undergo a coarsening process…
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Isothermal-isobaric molecular dynamics simulations are used to examine the microscopic structure and other properties of a model solution consisting of NaCl salt dissolved in water-methanol mixture. The SPC/E water model and the united atom…
By means of Density Functional Theory calculations we evaluate several lithium carbonate - graphite interface models as a prototype of the Solid Electrolyte Interphase capping layer on graphite anodes in lithium-ion batteries. It is found…
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A Coulomb lattice-gas model with a host lattice screening mechanism is adapted to describe the ordering phenomena in alkali-metal fullerides of body-centered-cubic structure. It is assumed that the electric charge of an alkali ion residing…
We study a classical Ising model on the honeycomb lattice with local two-body interactions and present strong evidence that at low temperature it realizes a higher-rank Coulomb liquid with fracton excitations. We show that the excitations…
A systematic method to obtain strong coupling expansions for scattering quantities in Hamiltonian lattice field theories is presented. I develop the conceptual ideas by means of the Hamiltonian field theory analogue of the Ising model, in…
The strength of the electromagnetic fields in the bunch collision at a linear collider will have a significant effect, yielding large numbers of beamstrahlung photons and associated coherent pair production. These effects are limited in the…
Previous experimental reports of long-range interactions in ionic liquids (ILs) stand in contradiction with theoretical predictions and numerical simulations. To provide insights into the literature discrepancies regarding the experimental…
Through Monte Carlo simulations and the Associating Lattice Gas Model, the phases of a two-dimensional fluid under hydrophilic confinement are evaluated. The model, in its unconfined version, reproduces the anomalous behavior of water…
This article outlines a thorough stability analysis by means of both theoretical and experimental modeling for Omni-phobic Lubricant Impregnated Surfaces (LIS). The liquid-repellent properties, particularly with regard to water and oil,…
In this Ph.D. thesis a model for graphene in presence of quantized electromagnetic interactions is introduced. The zero and low temperature properties of the model are studied using rigorous renormalization group methods and lattice Ward…
We study NaCl ion-pair dissociation in a dilute aqueous solution using computer simulations both for the full system with long range Coulomb interactions and for a well chosen reference system with short range intermolecular interactions.…