Molecular Theory of Electric Double Layers
350
Molecular Theory of Electric Double Layers
350Hardcover
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Overview
The electrical double layer describes charge and potential distributions that form at the interface between electrolyte solutions and the surface of an object. They occur in a wide range of physical and chemical systems, where they play a fundamental role in their chemical and electrochemical behaviour. Colloid science, electrochemistry, material science, and biology are a few examples where such interfaces play a crucial role. Though first described over a hundred years ago, the study of the electrical double layer remains an important topic today. Parallel to this investigation is the rapid development of the liquid state theory, which relates molecular interactions to macroscopic thermodynamic properties.
The focus of this book is on the application of modern liquid state theories to the properties of electric double layers, where it demonstrates the ability of statistical mechanical approaches, such as the classical density functional theory, to provide insights and details that will enable a better and more quantitative understanding of electric double layers. It provides a systematic description of electrical double layer models and their applications, extending the coverage of continuum models found in other introductory texts, with molecular models and the effects of solvents. The book will be essential reading for advanced students and researchers in interfacial science and its applications; be they chemists, physicists, materials scientists or engineers.
Key Features
- Includes both continuum and molecular models
- Relies on modern statistical mechanical approaches
- Suitable for chemists, physicists, material scientists and engineers
- Offers a new outlook for fundamental and applied researchers on the basic physics and chemistry of charged interfaces involving electrolytes
- Helps to advance further research fields as colloid science, electrochemistry, material science, and physical chemistry of electrolytes.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780750322744 |
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| Publisher: | Iop Publishing Ltd |
| Publication date: | 12/29/2021 |
| Pages: | 350 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.46(w) x 10.38(h) x 0.97(d) |
About the Author
Dr Frank van Swol received his PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he was supervised by Prof. L V Woodcock. His research has focused on the statistical mechanics of interfaces using molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, and classical density functional theory techniques. Dr van Swol was awarded a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship, which he held at Oxford University (UK) where he worked with Prof. John S Rowlinson, from 1982 until 1985. He then joined the Chemical Engineering Department of Cornell as a visiting faculty and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before joining Sandia National Laboratories in 1994, from which he retired in 2015. He has been a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico since 1996.
Dr Laura J Douglas Frink received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1995 where she was advised by Frank van Swol and Charles Zukoski. Her doctoral work involved simulation of colloidal systems with solvation potentials from classical density functional theory (DFT). She joined Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) in 1995 to pursue the development of a general-purpose c-DFT code capable of 2- and 3-dimensional calculations using parallel computing platforms. She was a lead developer of the c-DFT code Tramonto which is currently available as open-source software. Scientific interests include colloidal systems, adsorption and wetting, polymer interfaces, and self-assembled systems with applications in nanotechnology and biology. In 2008, she left SNL and started a consulting company. She became a research professor at the University of New Mexico in 2017.