Specific salt effects on poly(ethylene oxide) electrolyte solutions
Specific salt effects on poly(ethylene oxide) electrolyte solutions
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DOI:
10.1021/ma1027752
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发表时间:
2011-02
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影响因子:
5.5
通讯作者:
Chun-Lai Ren;Wen-de Tian;I. Szleifer;Y. Ma
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作者:
Chun-Lai Ren;Wen-de Tian;I. Szleifer;Y. Ma
Exploring the mechanism of specific salt effects in electrolyte solutions is an old and attractive subject. It has been gradually realized that the competition at the molecular level plays an important role. Aiming to include molecular details as many as possible, we combine molecular dynamics (MD) simulations with a molecular theory to study specific salt effects on poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) solutions with the addition of monovalent salt. Radial distribution functions obtained from MD simulations provide microscopic structures of different components as well as interactions between various species. On the basis of these interactions, we construct the molecular theory with four assumptions: (1) an ion along with bound water in the first shell works as a single entity; (2) short-ranged interactions among various species are modeled as hydrogen-bonding interactions; (3) the ability of a hydrated ion to provide donors/acceptors for hydrogen bonding is governed by the charge density; (4) contact ion pairs ar...