Ionic activity in concentrated electrolytes: Solvent structure effect revisited
We revisit the role of the local solvent structure on the activity coefficients of electrolytes within a nonlocal dielectric function approach. We treat the concentrated electrolyte as a dielectric medium and suggest an interpolation formula for its nonlocal dielectric response. The water dielectric...
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description | We revisit the role of the local solvent structure on the activity coefficients of electrolytes within a nonlocal dielectric function approach. We treat the concentrated electrolyte as a dielectric medium and suggest an interpolation formula for its nonlocal dielectric response. The water dielectric response is approximated based on MD simulations and experimental data, that gives strong over-screening and oscillations in the potential, which are absent in the standard “primitive model” predictions. We obtain mathematically tractable closed-form expressions for the activity coefficients, in reasonable agreement with experimental data. |
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spelling | mit-1721.1/1366302021-10-28T04:35:57Z Ionic activity in concentrated electrolytes: Solvent structure effect revisited Levy, Amir Bazant, Martin Kornyshev, Alexei We revisit the role of the local solvent structure on the activity coefficients of electrolytes within a nonlocal dielectric function approach. We treat the concentrated electrolyte as a dielectric medium and suggest an interpolation formula for its nonlocal dielectric response. The water dielectric response is approximated based on MD simulations and experimental data, that gives strong over-screening and oscillations in the potential, which are absent in the standard “primitive model” predictions. We obtain mathematically tractable closed-form expressions for the activity coefficients, in reasonable agreement with experimental data. 2021-10-27T20:36:21Z 2021-10-27T20:36:21Z 2020 2021-06-08T14:31:05Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136630 en 10.1016/J.CPLETT.2019.136915 Chemical Physics Letters Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier BV arXiv |
spellingShingle | Levy, Amir Bazant, Martin Kornyshev, Alexei Ionic activity in concentrated electrolytes: Solvent structure effect revisited |
title | Ionic activity in concentrated electrolytes: Solvent structure effect revisited |
title_full | Ionic activity in concentrated electrolytes: Solvent structure effect revisited |
title_fullStr | Ionic activity in concentrated electrolytes: Solvent structure effect revisited |
title_full_unstemmed | Ionic activity in concentrated electrolytes: Solvent structure effect revisited |
title_short | Ionic activity in concentrated electrolytes: Solvent structure effect revisited |
title_sort | ionic activity in concentrated electrolytes solvent structure effect revisited |
url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/136630 |
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