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100 1 _aLaanait, Nouamane.
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aIon Correlations at Electrified Soft Matter Interfaces
_h[electronic resource] /
_cby Nouamane Laanait.
264 1 _aCham :
_bSpringer International Publishing :
_bImprint: Springer,
_c2013.
300 _aXV, 112 p. 56 illus., 51 illus. in color.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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490 1 _aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
_x2190-5053
505 0 _aThe Poisson-Boltzmann Equation -- Electrochemical Methods -- X-Ray Reflectivity Studies of Ion Condensation at the Electrified Liquid/Liquid Interface -- Sterically Modified Poisson-Boltzmann Equation -- Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Solvent Correlations -- The Role of Electrostatic Ion Correlations in Ion Condensation.
520 _aIon Correlations at Electrified Soft Matter Interfaces presents an investigation that combines experiments, theory, and computer simulations to demonstrate that the interdependency between ion correlations and other ion interactions in solution can explain the distribution of ions near an electrified liquid/liquid interface. The properties of this interface are exploited to vary the coupling strength of ion-ion correlations from weak to strong while monitoring their influence on ion distributions at the nanometer scale with X-ray reflectivity and on the macroscopic scale with interfacial tension measurements. This thesis demonstrates that a parameter-free density functional theory that includes ion-ion correlations and ion-solvent interactions is in agreement with the data over the entire range of experimentally tunable correlation coupling strengths. The reported findings represent a significant advance towards understanding the nature and role of ion correlations in charged soft-matter. Ion distributions underlie many scientific phenomena and technological applications, including electrostatic interactions between charged biomolecules and the efficiency of energy storage devices. These distributions are determined by interactions dictated by the chemical properties of the ions and their environment, as well as the long-range nature of the electrostatic force. The presence of strong correlations between ions is responsible for counterintuitive effects such as like-charge attraction.
650 0 _aPhysics.
650 0 _aChemistry.
650 0 _aSurfaces (Physics).
650 1 4 _aPhysics.
650 2 4 _aSoft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.
650 2 4 _aElectrochemistry.
650 2 4 _aSurface and Interface Science, Thin Films.
650 2 4 _aSurfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.
650 2 4 _aNumerical and Computational Physics.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783319008998
830 0 _aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00900-1
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