Understanding the electric double-layer structure, capacitance, and charging dynamics

J Wu - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
Significant progress has been made in recent years in theoretical modeling of the electric
double layer (EDL), a key concept in electrochemistry important for energy storage …

Understanding specific ion effects and the Hofmeister series

KP Gregory, GR Elliott, H Robertson, A Kumar… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Specific ion effects (SIE), encompassing the Hofmeister Series, have been known for more
than 130 years since Hofmeister and Lewith's foundational work. SIEs are ubiquitous and …

Insights into ionic liquids: From Z-bonds to quasi-liquids

Y Wang, H He, C Wang, Y Lu, K Dong, F Huo, S Zhang - Jacs Au, 2022 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) hold great promise in the fields of green chemistry, environmental science,
and sustainable technology due to their unique properties, such as a tailorable structure, the …

Interfacial layering in the electric double layer of ionic liquids

JP de Souza, ZAH Goodwin, M McEldrew… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Ions in ionic liquids and concentrated electrolytes reside in a crowded, strongly interacting
environment, leading to the formation of discrete layers of charges at interfaces and spin …

Theory of ion aggregation and gelation in super-concentrated electrolytes

M McEldrew, ZAH Goodwin, S Bi, MZ Bazant… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
In concentrated electrolytes with asymmetric or irregular ions, such as ionic liquids and
solvent-in-salt electrolytes, ion association is more complicated than simple ion-pairing …

Correlation length in concentrated electrolytes: Insights from all-atom molecular dynamics simulations

SW Coles, C Park, R Nikam, M Kanduc… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We study the correlation length of the charge–charge pair correlations in concentrated
electrolyte solutions by means of all-atom, explicit-solvent molecular dynamics simulations …

Ion clusters and networks in water-in-salt electrolytes

M McEldrew, ZAH Goodwin, S Bi… - Journal of The …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Water-in-salt electrolytes (WiSEs) are a class of super-concentrated electrolytes that have
shown much promise in replacing organic electrolytes in lithium-ion batteries. At the …

A multiple decay-length extension of the Debye–Hückel theory: to achieve high accuracy also for concentrated solutions and explain under-screening in dilute …

R Kjellander - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The Poisson–Boltzmann and Debye–Hückel approximations for the pair distributions and
mean electrostatic potential in electrolytes predict that these entities have one single decay …

Ionic layering and overcharging in electrical double layers in a Poisson-Boltzmann model

A Gupta, A Govind Rajan, EA Carter, HA Stone - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Electrical double layers (EDLs) play a significant role in a broad range of physical
phenomena related to colloidal stability, diffuse-charge dynamics, electrokinetics, and …

Noether's second theorem and covariant field theory of mechanical stresses in inhomogeneous ionic liquids

PE Brandyshev, YA Budkov - The Journal of chemical physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
In this paper, we present a covariant approach that utilizes Noether's second theorem to
derive a symmetric stress tensor from the grand thermodynamic potential functional. We …