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浓电解质中电双层理论的对偶性

Duality of Theories for the Electrical Double Layer in Concentrated Electrolytes

John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University(哈佛大学约翰·A·保尔逊工程与应用科学学院);Department of Materials, University of Oxford(牛津大学材料系)

Zachary A. H. Goodwin

AI总结:

研究浓电解质中电双层的理论方法,对比局部密度近似与超越LDA方法的优劣,探讨其在异常欠屏蔽现象中的贡献及未来发展方向。

摘要:

理解浓电解质中的电双层(EDL),即电极界面处电解质的分布,对于超级电容器、电池和电催化等技术至关重要。原子级方法提供了前所未有的细节,但计算成本过高,无法全面研究浓电解质的EDL,推动了连续理论的发展。在这些浓电解质中,离子与溶剂之间的相关性较强,通过静电和特定相互作用,以及复杂分子物种的显著排斥体积效应,使理论的发展具有挑战性。迄今为止,主要有两种不同的简单理论方法来理解浓电解质的EDL,考虑了这些相关性超越平均场。一种是基于离子聚集和溶剂化的局部密度近似(LDA),通过超越平均场处理静电和特定相互作用;其中可以获得简单的概念理解,并在综合量上与实验合理一致,但在离子分布和德拜电容方面表现不佳。另一种方法是更严格地处理静电相关性和排斥体积效应,采用超越LDA的方法,但以简化物种间的化学相互作用为代价;其中在离子分布、微分电容等方面可以取得良好一致,但主要适用于基于这些理论的简化硬球系统。本文描述了这两种方法的优缺点,它们如何有助于理解异常欠屏蔽现象,并概述了这些理论方法的未来发展方向。

英文摘要:

Understanding the electrical double layer (EDL), i.e, the distribution of electrolyte at an electrified interface, in concentrated electrolytes is important for various technologies, such as supercapacitors, batteries and electrocatalysis. Atomistic approaches offer unprecedented detail, but are too computationally expensive to exhaustively investigate the EDL of concentrated electrolytes, motivating the development of continuum theories. In these concentrated electrolytes, correlations between ions and solvents are strong, through electrostatic and specific interactions, as well as significant excluded volume effects of the complicated molecular species, making the development of theories challenging. Thus far, there are mainly two distinct \textit{simple} theoretical approaches to understand the EDL of concentrated electrolytes, with account of these correlations beyond mean-field. One is a local-density approximation (LDA) based on treating electrostatic and specific interactions beyond mean-field through the ionic aggregation and solvation; where a simple conceptual understanding can be gained and reasonable agreement with experiments in terms of integrated quantities, but poor agreement for ion profiles and Debye capacitance. The other approach is to treat electrostatic correlations and excluded volume effects more rigorously with beyond LDA approaches, but at the cost of simplifying the chemical interactions between species; where excellent agreement can be obtained for ion profiles, differential capacitance, etc., but mainly for the simplified hard-sphere systems that the theories are based on. Here, we describe the merits and downfalls of these two approaches, how they have contributed to understanding anomalous underscreening, and outline future directions for these theoretical approaches.

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