Dilute polyelectrolyte solutions: recent progress and open questions

CG Lopez, A Matsumoto, AQ Shen - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Polyelectrolytes are a class of polymers possessing ionic groups on their repeating units.
Since counterions can dissociate from the polymer backbone, polyelectrolyte chains are …

[HTML][HTML] The known-unknowns of anomalous underscreening in concentrated electrolytes

GR Elliott, KP Gregory, H Robertson, VSJ Craig… - Chemical Physics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Electrolytes are central to life and technology but lack complete understanding. Recent
experiments with highly concentrated electrolytes have revealed electrostatic decay lengths …

A screening of results on the decay length in concentrated electrolytes

H Jäger, A Schlaich, J Yang, C Lian, S Kondrat… - Faraday …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Screening of electrostatic interactions in room-temperature ionic liquids and concentrated
electrolytes has recently attracted much attention as surface force balance experiments have …

Scaling perspectives of underscreening in concentrated electrolyte solutions

SA Safran, PA Pincus - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a scaling view of underscreening observed in salt solutions in the range of
concentrations greater than about 1 M, in which the screening length increases with …

Anomalous underscreening in the restricted primitive model

A Härtel, M Bültmann, F Coupette - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Underscreening is a collective term for charge correlations in electrolytes decaying slower
than the Debye length. Anomalous underscreening refers to phenomenology that cannot be …

Wave mechanics in an ionic liquid mixture

TS Groves, S Perkin - Faraday Discussions, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Experimental measurements of interactions in ionic liquids and concentrated electrolytes
over the past decade or so have revealed simultaneous monotonic and oscillatory decay …

Disparate external electric field effect on the adsorption and shear behavior of monovalent and trivalent ions in electrolyte solution

R Zhao, T Han, C Zhang, Q Yu - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Reducing friction is of great interest, and an external potential applied to the friction pair can
regulate lubricity. Electrochemical atomic force microscopy (EC-AFM) is used to study the …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting underscreening and generalized Kirkwood transitions in aqueous electrolytes

M Dinpajooh, E Biasin, ET Nienhuis… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We establish the connection between the measured small angle x-ray scattering signal and
the charge–charge correlations underlying Kirkwood transitions (KTs) in 1: 1, 2: 1, and 3: 1 …

Structure and anomalous underscreening in ethylammonium nitrate solutions confined between two mica surfaces

YKC Fung, S Perkin - Faraday Discussions, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The observation of long-range interactions across ionic liquids and highly concentrated
electrolytes, extending far beyond the Debye–Hückel prediction and beyond the range …

Solvent Effects on Structure and Screening in Confined Electrolytes

J Yang, S Kondrat, C Lian, H Liu, A Schlaich, C Holm - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Using classical density functional theory, we investigate the influence of solvent on the
structure and ionic screening of electrolytes under slit confinement and in contact with a …