Overview
- Nominated by the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis
- Represents a significant advance towards understanding the nature and role of ion correlations in charged soft matter
- Facilitates the connection between theoretical models and empirical investigations of ion correlations in various settings, which is of relevance to strongly correlated soft matter systems
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Ion Correlations at Electrified Soft Matter Interfaces presents an investigation that combines experiments, theory, and computer simulations to demonstrate that the interdependency between ion correlations and other ion interactions in solution can explain the distribution of ions near an electrified liquid/liquid interface. The properties of this interface are exploited to vary the coupling strength of ion-ion correlations from weak to strong while monitoring their influence on ion distributions at the nanometer scale with X-ray reflectivity and on the macroscopic scale with interfacial tension measurements.
This thesis demonstrates that a parameter-free density functional theory that includes ion-ion correlations and ion-solvent interactions is in agreement with the data over the entire range of experimentally tunable correlation coupling strengths. The reported findings represent a significant advance towards understanding the nature and role of ion correlations in charged soft-matter.
Ion distributions underlie many scientific phenomena and technological applications, including electrostatic interactions between charged biomolecules and the efficiency of energy storage devices. These distributions are determined by interactions dictated by the chemical properties of the ions and their environment, as well as the long-range nature of the electrostatic force. The presence of strong correlations between ions is responsible for counterintuitive effects such as like-charge attraction.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division,
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue, Bldg. 200
Argonne, IL 60439-4831
Nouamane Laanait received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He was twice awarded with the University of Illinois’ University Fellowship, and has twice received the GAANN Fellowship.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ion Correlations at Electrified Soft Matter Interfaces
Authors: Nouamane Laanait
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00900-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-00899-8Published: 29 August 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34393-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-00900-1Published: 30 July 2013
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 112
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 51 illustrations in colour
Topics: Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Electrochemistry, Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation