Theory and simulations of ionic liquids in nanoconfinement

S Kondrat, G Feng, F Bresme, M Urbakh… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Room-temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) have exciting properties such as nonvolatility, large
electrochemical windows, and remarkable variety, drawing much interest in energy storage …

From predictive modelling to machine learning and reverse engineering of colloidal self-assembly

M Dijkstra, E Luijten - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
An overwhelming diversity of colloidal building blocks with distinct sizes, materials and
tunable interaction potentials are now available for colloidal self-assembly. The application …

Thirty milliseconds in the life of a supercooled liquid

C Scalliet, B Guiselin, L Berthier - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We combine the swap Monte Carlo algorithm to long multi-CPU molecular dynamics
simulations to analyze the equilibrium relaxation dynamics of model supercooled liquids …

Revealing key structural features hidden in liquids and glasses

H Tanaka, H Tong, R Shi, J Russo - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
A great success of solid state physics comes from the characterization of crystal structures in
the reciprocal (wave vector) space. The power of structural characterization in Fourier space …

Highly confined ions store charge more efficiently in supercapacitors

C Merlet, C Péan, B Rotenberg, PA Madden… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Liquids exhibit specific properties when they are adsorbed in nanoporous structures. This is
particularly true in the context of supercapacitors, for which an anomalous increase in …

Ionic liquids for supercapacitor applications

M Salanne - Ionic Liquids II, 2018 - Springer
Supercapacitors are electrochemical energy storage devices in which the charge is
accumulated through the adsorption of ions from an electrolyte on the surface of the …

Autonomously revealing hidden local structures in supercooled liquids

E Boattini, S Marín-Aguilar, S Mitra, G Foffi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Few questions in condensed matter science have proven as difficult to unravel as the
interplay between structure and dynamics in supercooled liquids. To explore this link, much …

Microscopic origin of excess wings in relaxation spectra of supercooled liquids

B Guiselin, C Scalliet, L Berthier - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Glass formation is encountered in diverse materials. Experiments have revealed that the
dynamic relaxation spectra of supercooled liquids generically become asymmetric near the …

Unsupervised learning for local structure detection in colloidal systems

E Boattini, M Dijkstra, L Filion - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce a simple, fast, and easy to implement unsupervised learning algorithm for
detecting different local environments on a single-particle level in colloidal systems. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Pattern detection in colloidal assembly: A mosaic of analysis techniques

V Lotito, T Zambelli - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Characterization of the morphology, identification of patterns and quantification of
order encountered in colloidal assemblies is essential for several reasons. First of all, it is …