Double Layer in Ionic Liquids: Overscreening versus Crowding

We develop a simple Landau-Ginzburg-type continuum theory of solvent-free ionic liquids and use it to predict the structure of the electrical double layer. The model captures overscreening from short-range correlations, dominant at small voltages, and steric constraints of finite ion sizes, which pr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bazant, Martin Z., Storey, Brian D., Kornyshe, Alexei A.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62853