From the stability of colloidal suspensions to the charging of electrodes, electric double
layers play a pivotal role in aqueous systems. The interactions between interfaces, water …

Forces between hydrophilic surfaces mediated by water are important in various systems
from lipid membranes and solid surfaces to colloids and macromolecules, first discovered as …

New materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion are the key to the
electrification and sustainable development of our modern societies. Molecular modelling …

Water and other polar liquids exhibit nanoscale structuring near charged interfaces. When a
polar liquid is confined between two charged surfaces, the interfacial solvent layers begin to …

Polar surfaces in water typically repel each other at close separations, even if they are
charge-neutral. This so-called hydration repulsion balances the van der Waals attraction …

Room temperature ionic liquids show great promise as electrolytes in various technological
applications, such as energy storage or electrotunable lubrication. These applications are …

Experiments using the Surface Force Apparatus (SFA) have found anomalously long-ranged
charge–charge underscreening in concentrated salt solutions. Meanwhile, theory and …

We present the results of molecular dynamics simulations of a nanoscale electrochemical
cell. The simulations include an aqueous electrolyte solution with varying ionic strength (ie …

Ionic liquids (ILs) are an extremely exciting class of electrolytes for energy storage
applications. Upon dissolving alkali metal salts, such as Li or Na based salts, with the same …

This extended article presents a thermomechanical approach for calculating the stress
tensor from the thermodynamic potential of inhomogeneous fluids and some applications to …