Implicit solvation methods for catalysis at electrified interfaces

S Ringe, NG Hormann, H Oberhofer… - Chemical Reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Implicit solvation is an effective, highly coarse-grained approach in atomic-scale simulations
to account for a surrounding liquid electrolyte on the level of a continuous polarizable …

Determination of surface potential and electrical double-layer structure at the aqueous electrolyte-nanoparticle interface

MA Brown, Z Abbas, A Kleibert, RG Green, A Goel… - Physical Review X, 2016 - APS
The structure of the electrical double layer has been debated for well over a century, since it
mediates colloidal interactions, regulates surface structure, controls reactivity, sets …

Incorporation of ion and solvent structure into mean-field modeling of the electric double layer

K Bohinc, GV Bossa, S May - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2017 - Elsevier
An electric double layer forms when the small mobile ions of an electrolyte interact with an
extended charged object, a macroion. The competition between electrostatic attraction and …

Mean-field theory of electrical double layer in ionic liquids with account of short-range correlations

ZAH Goodwin, G Feng, AA Kornyshev - Electrochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
We develop the theory of the electrical double layer in ionic liquids as proposed earlier by
Kornyshev (2007). In the free energy function we keep the so called 'short-range correlation …

Emergence of a stern layer from the incorporation of hydration interactions into the Gouy–Chapman model of the electrical double layer

MA Brown, GV Bossa, S May - Langmuir, 2015 - ACS Publications
In one of the most commonly used phenomenological descriptions of the electrical double
layer, a charged solid surface and a diffuse region of mobile ions are separated from each …

Theory of surface forces in multivalent electrolytes

RP Misra, JP de Souza, D Blankschtein, MZ Bazant - Langmuir, 2019 - ACS Publications
Aqueous electrolyte solutions containing multivalent ions exhibit various intriguing
properties, including attraction between like-charged colloidal particles, which results from …

Effects of confinement and ion adsorption in ionic liquid supercapacitors with nanoporous electrodes

Z Lian, H Chao, ZG Wang - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
We investigate the effects of pore size and ion adsorption on the room-temperature ionic
liquid capacitor with nanoporous electrodes, with a focus on optimizing the capacitance and …

Electrical double layers: effects of asymmetry in electrolyte valence on steric effects, dielectric decrement, and ion–ion correlations

A Gupta, HA Stone - Langmuir, 2018 - ACS Publications
We study the effects of asymmetry in electrolyte valence (ie, non z: z electrolytes) on mean
field theory of the electrical double layer. Specifically, we study the effect of valence …

Electrocatalysis beyond the computational hydrogen electrode

H Oberhofer - Handbook of Materials Modeling: Applications: Current …, 2020 - Springer
The computational hydrogen electrode approach allows the alignment of theoretical
electrochemical potentials calculated with ab initio methods to those measured in …

Exponential increase in an ionic signal: a dominant role of the space charge effect on the outer surface of nanochannels

X Wu, Y Li, H Xu, Y Chen, H Mao, Q Ma, Q Du… - Analytical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Nanochannels have advantage in sensitive analyses due to the confinement effects on ionic
signal in nano-or sub-nanometric confines but could realize further gains by optimizing …