Lattice model of ionic liquid confined by metal electrodes

Abstract

Focus Article: Oscillatory and long-range monotonic exponential decays of electrostatic interactions in ionic liquids and other electrolytes: The significance of dielectric permittivity and renormalized charges

Effect of proximity to ionic liquid-solvent demixing on electrical double layers

“…In general, such variation of ǫ shall also depend on the affinity of ions/solvent towards electrode (electrode's ionophilicity, see below), as well as on the applied potential. To avoid such complications, and to capture generic effects, unobscured by the chemical complexity, we have decided to take a position-independent dielectric constant, as in the majority of studies [10,11,13,14,16,20,27,38,39,42]; clearly, the change of ǫ close to the surface will affect the results quantitatively, but it is reasonable to expect that the qualitative behaviour will not be altered.…”

Like-Charge Attraction between Metal Nanoparticles in a1∶1Electrolyte Solution

“…To overcome a slow convergence of the numerical solution of the full non-linear Poisson-Boltzmann equation, we developed a modified Derjaguin approximation which allows us to accurate and rapidly calculate the interaction potential between two metal nanoparticles, or between a metal nanoparticle and a phospholipid membrane. a) Electronic mail: alexandre.pereira@ufrgs.br b) Electronic mail: levin@if.ufrgs.br Metal nanoparticles suspended in an electrolyte solution have attracted a lot of attention for various applications [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] . Because of their strong affinity for biological surfaces and compatibility with immune system 11 , gold nanoparticles are being used for cancer treatment and drug delivery [12][13][14] .…”

Phase Transitions and Electrochemical Properties of Ionic Liquids and Ionic Liquid—Solvent Mixtures

“…In addition, the change of close to the surface affects the results quantitatively [ 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 ]. To capture generic effects, is often assumed to be temperature-, density- and position independent [ 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 ]. Theories with the assumption of constant cannot be accurate on the quantitative level but capture generic effects and qualitative behavior.…”

“…In particular, the ion sizes become significant [ 106 , 107 , 108 , 109 ]. Indeed, EDLs theories have manifested that excluded volume interactions are essential to properly describe the structure of the EDL with ILs [ 44 , 52 , 53 , 54 , 55 , 56 , 58 , 110 , 111 ].…”