Double Layer in Ionic Liquids: Overscreening versus Crowding
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Bazant, Martin Z.
Storey, Brian D.
Kornyshe, Alexei A.
Date Issued
January 2011
Journal
Physical review letters
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American Physical Society
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Bazant, Martin, Brian Storey, and Alexei Kornyshev. “Double Layer in Ionic Liquids: Overscreening versus Crowding.” Physical Review Letters 106.4 (2011) : n. pag. © 2011 American Physical Society
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Abstract
We develop a simple Landau-Ginzburg-type continuum theory of solvent-free ionic liquids and use it to predict the structure of the electrical double layer. The model captures overscreening from short-range correlations, dominant at small voltages, and steric constraints of finite ion sizes, which prevail at large voltages. Increasing the voltage gradually suppresses overscreening in favor of the crowding of counterions in a condensed inner layer near the electrode. This prediction, the ion profiles, and the capacitance-voltage dependence are consistent with recent computer simulations and experiments on room-temperature ionic liquids, using a correlation length of order the ion size.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.046102
