Electrotunable friction with ionic liquid lubricants

F Bresme, AA Kornyshev, S Perkin, M Urbakh - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Room-temperature ionic liquids and their mixtures with organic solvents as lubricants open
a route to control lubricity at the nanoscale via electrical polarization of the sliding surfaces …

The surface force balance: Direct measurement of interactions in fluids and soft matter

HJ Hayler, TS Groves, A Guerrini… - Reports on Progress …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Over the last half-century, direct measurements of surface forces have been instrumental in
the exploration of a multitude of phenomena in liquid, soft, and biological matter …

Impact of asymmetries in valences and diffusivities on the transport of a binary electrolyte in a charged cylindrical pore

F Henrique, PJ Zuk, A Gupta - Electrochimica Acta, 2022 - Elsevier
Ion transport in porous media is present in a wealth of technologies, eg, energy storage
devices such as batteries and supercapacitors, and environmental technologies such as …

Dynamic density functional theory for the charging of electric double layer capacitors

K Ma, M Janssen, C Lian, R Van Roij - The Journal of Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We consider the charging of a model capacitor comprised of two planar electrodes and an
electrolyte. Upon switching on a voltage difference, electric double layers build up in this …

Correlation decoupling of Casimir interaction in an electrolyte driven by external electric fields

G Du, DS Dean, B Miao, R Podgornik - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
It is well established that the long-range van der Waals or thermal Casimir interaction
between two semi-infinite dielectrics separated by a distance H is screened by an …

Direct measurement of surface forces: recent advances and insights

W Lin, J Klein - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The direct measurement of forces between atomically smooth mica surfaces down to sub-
nanometer separation was pioneered over 50 years ago and has yielded deep …

Assessing Local Electrical Properties of Ionic Liquid/Metal Interfaces with Operando-XPS and by Incorporating Additional Circuit Elements

G Karaoglu, E Kutbay, S Ince, B Ulgut… - Analytical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) has been utilized to record binding energy changes
upon applying direct current (DC) and/or alternating current (AC)(square-wave) bias with …

Comparative Operando XPS and SEM Spatiotemporal Potential Mapping of Ionic Liquid Polarization in a Coplanar Electrochemical Device

S Suzer, E Strelcov, A Kolmakov - Analytical Chemistry, 2021 - ACS Publications
The polarization response of a coplanar electrochemical capacitor covered with an ionic
liquid as the electrolyte has been examined using a combination of two powerful analytic …

Long-range fluctuation-induced forces in driven electrolytes

S Mahdisoltani, R Golestanian - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We study the stochastic dynamics of an electrolyte driven by a uniform external electric field
and show that it exhibits generic scale invariance despite the presence of Debye screening …

Towards local tracking of solvated metal ions at solid-liquid interfaces

W Trewby, M Tavakol, YM Jaques, K Voïtchovsky - Materials Today Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
The dynamics of individual solvated ions near solid surfaces is the driving force behind
numerous interfacial processes, from electrochemical reactions to charge storage, mineral …