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非对称离子流体中多价离子介导的中性电介质间的吸引

Attraction between Neutral Dielectrics Mediated by Multivalent Ions in an Asymmetric Ionic Fluid

Matej Kanduc, Ali Naji, Jan Forsman, Rudolf Podgornik

摘要:

我们研究了两个中性平面平行的电介质体在一个高度不对称的离子流体的存在下,含有多价以及单价(盐)离子之间的相互作用。图像电荷相互作用,由于在边界处的介电不连续性,以及从离子限制在表面之间的狭缝区域的影响被充分考虑,导致图像产生的耗尽吸引力,离子相关吸引力和空间的排斥相互作用。我们研究这些影响,采用的方法,包括显式离子和隐式离子的蒙特卡罗模拟,以及一个有效的相互作用势分析理论的组合。后者采用强离子图像电荷相关性,这在混合物中的高价离子的存在下发展。我们表明,隐式离子模拟和建议的分析理论可以描述显式的模拟结果在定性水平上,而良好的定量协议,可以得到足够大的单价盐浓度。中性表面之间的相互作用所产生的吸引力是显着的,与通常的范德华相互作用之间的半无限大,因此可以发挥重要的作用,在纳米尺度。

英文摘要:

We study the interaction between two neutral plane-parallel dielectric bodies in the presence of a highly asymmetric ionic fluid, containing multivalent as well as monovalent (salt) ions. Image charge interactions, due to dielectric discontinuities at the boundaries, as well as effects from ion confinement in the slit region between the surfaces are taken fully into account, leading to image-generated depletion attraction, ion correlation attraction and steric-like repulsive interactions. We investigate these effects by employing a combination of methods including explicit-ion and implicit-ion Monte-Carlo simulations, as well as an effective interaction potential analytical theory. The latter incorporates strong ion-image charge correlations, which develop in the presence of high valency ions in the mixture. We show that the implicit-ion simulations and the proposed analytical theory can describe the explicit simulation results on a qualitative level, while excellent quantitative agreement can be obtained for sufficiently large monovalent salt concentrations. The resultant attractive interaction between the neutral surfaces is shown to be significant, as compared with the usual van der Waals interactions between semi-infinite dielectrics, and can thus play a significant role at the nano scale.

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