Microstructural and dynamical heterogeneities in ionic liquids

YL Wang, B Li, S Sarman, F Mocci, ZY Lu… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a special category of molten salts solely composed of ions with varied
molecular symmetry and charge delocalization. The versatility in combining varied cation …

Molecular dynamics simulations of ionic liquids and electrolytes using polarizable force fields

D Bedrov, JP Piquemal, O Borodin… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Many applications in chemistry, biology, and energy storage/conversion research rely on
molecular simulations to provide fundamental insight into structural and transport properties …

[HTML][HTML] Ionic liquids as electrolytes for energy storage applications–A modelling perspective

E Jónsson - Energy Storage Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Ionic liquids as electrolytes for energy storage devices is a promising field. Here, the various
approaches of how ionic liquids can be modelled are discussed along with how the …

Universal reduction in dielectric response of confined fluids

MH Motevaselian, NR Aluru - ACS nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Dielectric permittivity is central to many biological and physiochemical systems, as it affects
the long-range electrostatic interactions. Similar to many fluid properties, confinement …

Ion transport in small-molecule and polymer electrolytes

CY Son, ZG Wang - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Solid-state polymer electrolytes and high-concentration liquid electrolytes, such as water-in-
salt electrolytes and ionic liquids, are emerging materials to replace the flammable organic …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison between ab initio and polarizable molecular dynamics simulations of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate and chloride in water

A Szabadi, R Elfgen, R Macchieraldo, FL Kearns… - Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study we compare the results of three different polarizable molecular dynamics force
fields with an ab initio trajectory of the aqueous mixture of 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium …

Toward prediction of electrostatic parameters for force fields that explicitly treat electronic polarization

E Heid, M Fleck, P Chatterjee… - Journal of chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The derivation of atomic polarizabilities for polarizable force field development has been a
long-standing problem. Atomic polarizabilities were often refined manually starting from …

[HTML][HTML] Polarizable molecular dynamics simulations of ionic liquids: Influence of temperature control

E Heid, S Boresch, C Schröder - The Journal of chemical physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Ionic liquids are an interesting class of soft matter with viscosities of one or two orders of
magnitude higher than that of water. Unfortunately, classical, non-polarizable molecular …

Polarizable MD simulations of ionic liquids: How does additional charge transfer change the dynamics?

C Schröder, A Lyons, SW Rick - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Both experimental and computational evidence exist that Coulomb interactions between the
molecular ions in ionic liquids are significantly damped by almost a factor of two. This …

Collectivity in ionic liquids: a temperature dependent, polarizable molecular dynamics study

A Szabadi, P Honegger, F Schöfbeck… - Physical Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We use polarizable molecular dynamics simulations to study the thermal dependence of
both structural and dynamic properties of two ionic liquids sharing the same cation (1-ethyl-3 …