記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

Solvent-implicit Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and mean-field theory are used to predict activity coefficients and excess interfacial tensions for NaF, NaCl, NaI, KF, KCl, and KI solutions in good agreement with experimental data over the entire experimentally available concentration range. The effective ionic diameters of the solvent-implicit simulation model are obtained by fits to experimental activity coefficient data. The experimental activity coefficients at high salt concentrations are only reproduced if the ion-specific concentration-dependent decrement of the dielectric constant is included. The dielectric-constant dependent contribution of the single-ion solvation free energy to the activity coefficient is significant and is included. To account for the ion-specific excess interfacial tension of salt solutions, in addition to non-ideal solution effects and the salt-concentration-dependent dielectric decrement, an ion-specific ion-interface interaction must be included. This ion-interface interaction, which acts in addition to the dielectric image-charge repulsion, is modeled as a box potential, is considerably more long-ranged than the ion radius, and is repulsive for all ions considered except iodide, in agreement with previous findings and arguments. By comparing different models that include or exclude bulk non-ideal solution behavior, dielectric decrement effects, and ion-interface interaction potentials, we demonstrate how bulk and interfacial ion-specific effects couple and partially compensate each other. Our MC simulations, which correctly include ionic correlations and interfacial dielectric image-charge repulsion, are used to determine effective ion-surface interaction potentials that can be used in a modified Poisson-Boltzmann theory.

DOI： 10.1063/5.0016103

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担当区分：筆頭著者   記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

The electrification of hydrophobic surfaces is an intensely debated subject in physical chemistry. We theoretically study the ζ potential of hydrophobic surfaces for varying pH and salt concentration by solving the Poisson-Boltzmann and Stokes equations with individual ionic adsorption affinities. Using the ionic surface affinities extracted from the experimentally measured surface tension of the air-electrolyte interface, we first show that the interfacial adsorption and repulsion of small inorganic ions such as H3O+, OH-, HCO3-, and CO32- cannot account for the ζ potential observed in experiments because the surface affinities of these ions are too small. Even if we take hydrodynamic slip into account, the characteristic dependence of the ζ potential on pH and salt concentration cannot be reproduced. Instead, to explain the sizable experimentally measured ζ potential of hydrophobic surfaces, we assume minute amounts of impurities in the water and include the impurities' acidic and basic reactions with water. We find good agreement between our predictions and the reported experimental ζ potential data of various hydrophobic surfaces if we account for impurities that consist of a mixture of weak acids (pKa = 5-7) and weak bases (pKb = 12) at a concentration of the order of 10-7 M.

DOI： 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03795

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記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

Molecular ynamics simulations in conjunction with effective meium theory are use to investigate ielectric effects in water-fille nanotubes. The resulting effective axial ielectric constant shows a ivergent increase for small nanotube raii that epens on the nanotube length, while the effective raial ielectric constant ecreases significantly for thin nanotubes. By solving Poisson's equation for an anisotropic ielectric meium in cylinrical geometry, we show that the axial ion-ion interaction epens for small separations primarily on the raial ielectric constant, not on the axial one. This means that electrostatic ion-ion interactions in thin water-fille nanotubes are on the linear ielectric level significantly enhance ue to water confinement effects at small separations, while at large separations the outsie meium ominates. If the outsie meium is metallic, then the ion-ion interaction ecays exponentially for large ion separation.

DOI： 10.1021/acs.jpcb.9b09269

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担当区分：筆頭著者   記述言語：英語   掲載種別：記事・総説・解説・論説等（学術雑誌）

The effective charge of hydrophobic surfaces and in particular of the air–water interface is a crucial parameter for electrochemistry, colloidal chemistry and interfacial science, but different experiments give conflicting estimates. Zeta-potential and disjoining-pressure measurements point to a strongly negative surface charge, often interpreted as being due to adsorbing hydroxide ions. In contrast, surface tension measurements of acids and bases suggest the hydronium ion to be surface active, in agreement with some surface-specific non-linear spectroscopy results. The air–electrolyte interfacial tension exhibits a characteristic minimum at millimolar electrolyte concentration for all salts, the so-called Jones–Ray effect, which points to competitive adsorption mechanisms present in dilute electrolyte solutions. We show that all these puzzling experimental findings can be explained by the presence of trace amounts of surface-active charged impurities, most likely anionic surfactants.

DOI： 10.1016/j.coelec.2018.09.003

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担当区分：筆頭著者   記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

The Jones-Ray effect is an anomalous minimum in the surface tension of aqueous electrolytes at millimolar salt concentrations. We experimentally demonstrated that intentionally added ionic surfactants induce the Jones-Ray effect. The one-dimensional Poisson-Boltzmann theory, including the effect of surfactant adsorption and salt depletion, excellently agrees with the obtained experimental data. All the parameters of the ion-specific surface affinities used in the theory are consistent with previous experiments. These results strongly suggest that the Jones-Ray effect observed so far has been induced by the inevitable contamination of the air-water interfaces.

DOI： 10.1016/j.colcom.2018.10.003

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記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

We study the steady-state response of a dilute monovalent electrolyte solution to an external source with a constant relative velocity with respect to the fluid. The source is taken as a combination of three perturbations: an external force acting on the fluid, an externally imposed ionic chemical potential, and an external charge density. The linear response functions are obtained analytically and can be decoupled into three independent terms, corresponding to (i) fluid flow and pressure, (ii) total ionic number density and current, and (iii) charge density, electrostatic potential, and electric current. It is shown how the uniform flow breaks the equilibrium radial symmetry of the response functions, leading to a distortion of the ionic cloud and electrostatic potential, which deviates from the standard Debye-Hückel result. The potential of a moving charge is underscreened in its direction of motion and overscreened in the opposite direction and normal plane. As a result, an unscreened dipolar electric field and electric currents are induced far from the charged source. We relate our general formalism to several experimental setups, such as colloidal sedimentation.

DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevE.98.032604

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担当区分：筆頭著者   記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

We construct an analytical model to account for the influence of the subnanometer-wide interfacial layer on the differential capacitance and the electro-osmotic mobility of solid-electrolyte interfaces. The interfacial layer is incorporated into the Poisson-Boltzmann and Stokes equations using a box model for the dielectric properties, the viscosity, and the ionic potential of mean force. We calculate the differential capacitance and the electro-osmotic mobility as a function of the surface charge density and the salt concentration, both with and without steric interactions between the ions. We compare the results from our theoretical model with experimental data on a variety of systems (graphite and metallic silver for capacitance and titanium oxide and silver iodide for electro-osmotic data). The differential capacitance of silver as a function of salinity and surface charge density is well reproduced by our theory, using either the width of the interfacial layer or the ionic potential of mean force as the only fitting parameter. The differential capacitance of graphite, however, needs an additional carbon capacitance to explain the experimental data. Our theory yields a power-law dependence of the electro-osmotic mobility on the surface charge density for high surface charges, reproducing the experimental data using both the interfacial parameters extracted from molecular dynamics simulations and fitted interfacial parameters. Finally, we examine different types of hydrodynamic boundary conditions for the power-law behavior of the electro-osmotic mobility, showing that a finite-viscosity layer explains the experimental data better than the usual hydrodynamic slip boundary condition. Our analytical model thus allows us to extract the properties of the subnanometer-wide interfacial layer by fitting to macroscopic experimental data.

DOI： 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b04171

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担当区分：筆頭著者   記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

On the basis of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation in cylindrical coordinates, we calculate the conductivity of a single charged nanotube filled with electrolyte. The conductivity as a function of the salt concentration follows a power-law, the exponent of which has been controversially discussed in the literature. We use the co-ion-exclusion approximation and obtain the crossover between different asymptotic power-law behaviors analytically. Numerically solving the full Poisson-Boltzmann equation, we also calculate the complete diagram of exponents as a function of the salt concentration and the pH for tubes with different radii and pKa values. We apply our theory to recent experimental results on carbon nanotubes using the pKa as a fit parameter. In good agreement with the experimental data, the theory shows power-law behavior with the exponents 1/3 at high pH and 1/2 at low pH, with a crossover depending on salt concentration, tube radius and pKa.

DOI： 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b01975

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担当区分：筆頭著者   記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

Using a box profile approximation for the non-electrostatic surface adsorption potentials of anions and cations, we calculate the differential capacitance of aqueous electrolyte interfaces from a numerical solution of the Poisson-Boltzmann equation, including steric interactions between the ions and an inhomogeneous dielectric profile. Preferential adsorption of the positive (negative) ion shifts the minimum of the differential capacitance to positive (negative) surface potential values. The trends are similar for the potential of zero charge; however, the potential of zero charge does not correspond to the minimum of the differential capacitance in the case of asymmetric ion adsorption, contrary to the assumption commonly used to determine the potential of zero charge. Our model can be used to obtain more accurate estimates of ion adsorption properties from differential capacitance or electrocapillary measurements. Asymmetric ion adsorption also affects the relative heights of the characteristic maxima in the differential capacitance curves as a function of the surface potential, but even for strong adsorption potentials the effect is small, making it difficult to reliably determine the adsorption properties from the peak heights.

DOI： 10.1088/1361-648X/aaa4d4

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担当区分：筆頭著者   記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

The electrolyte surface tension exhibits a characteristic minimum around a salt concentration of 1 mM for all ion types, known as the Jones-Ray effect. We show that a consistent description of the experimental surface tension of salts, bases, and acids is possible by assuming charged impurities in the water with a surface affinity typical for surfactants. Comparison with experimental data yields an impurity concentration in the nanomolar range, well below the typical experimental detection limit. Our modeling reveals salt-screening enhanced impurity adsorption as the mechanism behind the Jones-Ray effect: for very low salt concentration added salt screens the electrostatic repulsion between impurities at the surface, which dramatically increases impurity adsorption and thereby reduces the surface tension.

DOI： 10.1021/acs.jpclett.7b02960

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担当区分：筆頭著者   記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

An exact solution to the Poisson-Boltzmann and Stokes equations is derived to describe the electric double layer with inhomogeneous dielectric and viscosity profiles in a lateral electric field. In the limit of strongly charged surfaces and low salinity, the electrokinetic flow magnitude follows a power law as a function of the surface charge density. Remarkably, the power-law exponent is determined by the interfacial dielectric constant and viscosity, the latter of which has eluded experimental determination. Our approach provides a novel method to extract the effective interfacial viscosity from standard electrokinetic experiments. We find good agreement between our theory and experimental data.

DOI： 10.1016/j.cplett.2016.12.056

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記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（国際会議プロシーディングス）

Many properties of the interfacial layer of water at surfaces differ significantly from those of bulk water. The consequences are most significant for the doublelayer capacitance and the electrokinetic properties. We model the interfacial hydration layer by a modified dielectric constant and a modified local viscosity over a single interfacial width. Analytic expressions in the low-charge Debye-Hückel approximation are derived and shown to describe experimental surface capacitance and electro-osmotic data in a unified framework.

DOI： 10.1098/rsta.2015.0033

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記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

Nonlinear electro-osmotic behaviour of dilute non-adsorbing polymer solutions with low salinity is investigated using Brownian dynamics simulations and a kinetic theory. In the Brownian simulations, the hydrodynamic interaction between the polymers and a no-slip wall is considered using the Rotne-Prager approximation of the Blake tensor. In a plug flow under a sufficiently strong applied electric field, the polymer migrates toward the bulk, forming a depletion layer thicker than the equilibrium one. Consequently, the electro-osmotic mobility increases nonlinearly with increasing electric field and becomes saturated. This nonlinear mobility does not depend qualitatively on the details of the rheological properties of the polymer solution. Analytical calculations using the kinetic theory for the same system quantitatively reproduce the results of the Brownian dynamics simulation well.

DOI： 10.1039/c5sm01507c

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記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

I investigate the possibility that electrically neutral porous spheres electrophorese in electrolyte solutions with asymmetric affinity of ions to spheres on the basis of electrohydrodynamics and the Poisson-Boltzmann and Debye-Bueche-Brinkman theories. Assuming a weak electric field and ignoring the double-layer polarization, I obtain analytical expressions for electrostatic potential, electrophoretic mobility, and flow field. In the equilibrium state, the Galvani potential forms across the interface of the spheres. Under a weak electric field, the spheres show finite mobility with the same sign as the Galvani potential. When the radius of the spheres is significantly larger than the Debye and hydrodynamic screening length, the mobility monotonically increases with increasing salinity.

DOI： 10.1103/PhysRevE.91.022303

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記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

We investigate electro-osmosis in aqueous solutions of polyelectrolytes using mean-field equations. A solution of positively charged polyelectrolytes is confined between two negatively charged planar surfaces, and an electric field is applied parallel to the surfaces. When electrostatic attraction between the polymer and the surface is strong, the polymers adhere to the surface, forming a highly viscous adsorption layer that greatly suppresses the electro-osmosis. Conversely, electro-osmosis is enhanced by depleting the polymers from the surfaces. We also found that the electro-osmotic flow is invertible when the electrostatic potential decays to its bulk value with the opposite sign. These behaviors are well explained by a simple mathematical form of the electro-osmotic coefficient. © 2013 AIP Publishing LLC.

DOI： 10.1063/1.4820236

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記述言語：英語   掲載種別：研究論文（学術雑誌）

We investigate volume phase transition in gels immersed in mixture solvents, on the basis of a three-component Flory-Rehner theory. When the selectivity of the minority solvent component to the polymer network is strong, the gel tends to shrink with an increasing concentration of the additive, regardless of whether it is good or poor. This behavior originates from the difference of the additive concentration between inside and outside the gel. We also found the gap of the gel volume at the transition point can be controlled by adding the strongly selective solutes. By dissolving a strongly poor additive, for instance, the discontinuous volume phase transition can be extinguished. Furthermore, we observed that another volume phase transition occurs far from the original transition point. These behaviors can be well explained by a simplified theory neglecting the nonlinearity of the additive concentration. © 2012 American Institute of Physics.

DOI： 10.1063/1.4732857

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開催期間： 2022年07月09日   記述言語：英語