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 …

Electrolytes are central to life and technology but lack complete understanding. Recent
experiments with highly concentrated electrolytes have revealed electrostatic decay lengths …

Inspired by recent experimental observations of anomalously large decay lengths in
concentrated electrolytes, we revisit the Restricted Primitive Model (RPM) for an aqueous …

Underscreening is a collective term for charge correlations in electrolytes decaying slower
than the Debye length. Anomalous underscreening refers to phenomenology that cannot be …

The effect of ionic association on the structure and property of confined electrolytes is
investigated using the classical density functional theory. We find that ionic association …

We present a scaling view of underscreening observed in salt solutions in the range of
concentrations greater than about 1 M, in which the screening length increases with …

Recent surface forces apparatus experiments that measured the forces between two mica
surfaces and a series of subsequent theoretical studies suggest the occurrence of universal …

Using classical density functional theory, we investigate the influence of solvent on the
structure and ionic screening of electrolytes under slit confinement and in contact with a …

The phase transfer of ions is driven by gradients of chemical potentials rather than
concentrations alone (ie, by both the molecular forces and entropy). Extraction is a …

Recent experiments have reported anomalously large screening lengths of interactions
between charged surfaces confining concentrated electrolytes and ionic liquids. Termed …