Ion correlation effects in salt-doped block copolymers

JR Brown, Y Seo, LM Hall - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We apply classical density functional theory to study how salt changes the microphase
morphology of diblock copolymers. Polymers are freely jointed and one monomer type …

[HTML][HTML] Ionic structure in liquids confined by dielectric interfaces

Y **g, V Jadhao, JW Zwanikken… - The Journal of chemical …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
The behavior of ions in liquids confined between macromolecules determines the outcome
of many nanoscale assembly processes in synthetic and biological materials such as …

Charged dielectric spheres interacting in electrolytic solution: A linearized Poisson–Boltzmann equation model

SV Siryk, A Bendandi, A Diaspro… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We present an analytical theory of electrostatic interactions of two spherical dielectric
particles of arbitrary radii and dielectric constants, immersed into a polarizable ionic solvent …

Electrostatic interactions between charged dielectric particles in an electrolyte solution

IN Derbenev, AV Filippov, AJ Stace… - The Journal of chemical …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Theory is developed to address a significant problem of how two charged dielectric particles
interact in the presence of a polarizable medium that is a dilute solution of a strong …

Incorporating surface polarization effects into large-scale coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics simulation

TD Nguyen, H Li, D Bagchi, FJ Solis… - Computer Physics …, 2019 - Elsevier
We implement and extend three methods for incorporating surface polarization effects into
coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations for LAMMPS: the boundary element …

Simulations of Coulomb systems confined by polarizable surfaces using periodic Green functions

AP Dos Santos, M Girotto, Y Levin - The Journal of chemical physics, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We present an efficient approach for simulating Coulomb systems confined by planar
polarizable surfaces. The method is based on the solution of the Poisson equation using …

Like-Charge Attraction between Metal Nanoparticles in a Electrolyte Solution

AP Dos Santos, Y Levin - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
We calculate the force between two spherical metal nanoparticles of charge Q 1 and Q 2 in a
dilute 1∶ 1 electrolyte solution. Numerically solving the nonlinear Poisson-Boltzmann …

Machine learning for parameter auto-tuning in molecular dynamics simulations: Efficient dynamics of ions near polarizable nanoparticles

JCS Kadupitiya, GC Fox… - The International Journal …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Simulating the dynamics of ions near polarizable nanoparticles (NPs) using coarse-grained
models is extremely challenging due to the need to solve the Poisson equation at every …

Tunable interactions between particles in conically rotating electric fields

KA Komarov, NP Kryuchkov, SO Yurchenko - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Tunable interactions between colloidal particles in external conically rotating electric fields
are calculated, while the (vertical) axis of the field rotation is normal to the (horizontal) …

Consistent description of ion-specificity in bulk and at interfaces by solvent implicit simulations and mean-field theory

AP Dos Santos, Y Uematsu, A Rathert… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Solvent-implicit Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and mean-field theory are used to predict
activity coefficients and excess interfacial tensions for NaF, NaCl, NaI, KF, KCl, and KI …