中国物理B ›› 2016, Vol. 25 ›› Issue (10): 108201-108201.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/25/10/108201

• INTERDISCIPLINARY PHYSICS AND RELATED AREAS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY • 上一篇    下一篇

Particles inside electrolytes with ion-specific interactions, their effective charge distributions and effective interactions

Mingnan Ding(丁茗楠), Yihao Liang(梁逸浩), Xiangjun Xing(邢向军)   

  1. Institute of Natural Sciences, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240 China
  • 收稿日期:2016-05-02 修回日期:2016-07-15 出版日期:2016-10-05 发布日期:2016-10-05
  • 通讯作者: Xiangjun Xing E-mail:xxing@sjtu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11174196 and 91130012).

Particles inside electrolytes with ion-specific interactions, their effective charge distributions and effective interactions

Mingnan Ding(丁茗楠), Yihao Liang(梁逸浩), Xiangjun Xing(邢向军)   

  1. Institute of Natural Sciences, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240 China
  • Received:2016-05-02 Revised:2016-07-15 Online:2016-10-05 Published:2016-10-05
  • Contact: Xiangjun Xing E-mail:xxing@sjtu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:

    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11174196 and 91130012).

摘要:

In this work, we explore the statistical physics of colloidal particles that interact with electrolytes via ion-specific interactions. Firstly we study particles interacting weakly with electrolyte using linear response theory. We find that the mean potential around a particle is linearly determined by the effective charge distribution of the particle, which depends both on the bare charge distribution and on ion-specific interactions. We also discuss the effective interaction between two such particles and show that, in the far field regime, it is bilinear in the effective charge distributions of two particles. We subsequently generalize the above results to the more complicated case where particles interact strongly with the electrolyte. Our results indicate that in order to understand the statistical physics of non-dilute electrolytes, both ion-specific interactions and ionic correlations have to be addressed in a single unified and consistent framework.

关键词: electrolytes, effective interaction, linear response theory

Abstract:

In this work, we explore the statistical physics of colloidal particles that interact with electrolytes via ion-specific interactions. Firstly we study particles interacting weakly with electrolyte using linear response theory. We find that the mean potential around a particle is linearly determined by the effective charge distribution of the particle, which depends both on the bare charge distribution and on ion-specific interactions. We also discuss the effective interaction between two such particles and show that, in the far field regime, it is bilinear in the effective charge distributions of two particles. We subsequently generalize the above results to the more complicated case where particles interact strongly with the electrolyte. Our results indicate that in order to understand the statistical physics of non-dilute electrolytes, both ion-specific interactions and ionic correlations have to be addressed in a single unified and consistent framework.

Key words: electrolytes, effective interaction, linear response theory

中图分类号:  (Colloids)

  • 82.70.Dd
83.80.Hj (Suspensions, dispersions, pastes, slurries, colloids) 82.45.Gj (Electrolytes) 52.25.Kn (Thermodynamics of plasmas)