Model-free test of local-density mean-field behavior in Electric Double Layers
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Model-free test of local-density mean-field behavior in
Electric Double Layers
Brian Giera[1, 2]
Special thanks to:
Neil Henson[2], Ed Kober[2], Scott Shell[1] , Todd Squires[1]
and to everyone at:[1] Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California
Santa Barbara[2] Institute for Multiscale Materials Studies, Los Alamos National
Laboratory
Published last week as a Rapid Communicaiton in PRE
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• What are Electric Double Layers (EDLs)?• How can we model planar
EDLs?• When can we use the
simplest of models: local-density approximations?
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Ions make up Electric Double Layers
Example: Charge plate in a buffer
EDLs form at interfaces between charged
surfaces and ionic fluids.
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Ions make up Electric Double Layers
Example: Charge plate in a buffer
EDLs form at interfaces between charged
surfaces and ionic fluids.
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Ions make up Electric Double Layers
Example: Charge plate in a buffer
EDLs form at interfaces between charged
surfaces and ionic fluids.
• Ions screen surface charges across 1 – 100s nanometers
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Ions make up Electric Double Layers
Example: Charge plate in a buffer
EDLs form at interfaces between charged
surfaces and ionic fluids.
• Ions screen surface charges across 1 – 100s nanometers
• EDL width decreases with ion valence and concentration
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EDLs store energy electrochemically
• Ions screen surface charges across 1 – 100s nanometers
• EDL width decreases with ion valence and concentration
• EDLs act like capacitors
EDLCapacitor
Parallel PlateCapacitor
Name Variable
Screening length
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Why are EDLs important?
EDLCapacitor
Parallel PlateCapacitor
charge separation
Capacitance =
surface area×dielectric
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Why are EDLs important?
EDLCapacitor
High surface area electrodes(1000+ meters2/gram)
Parallel PlateCapacitor
Nanoscale charge separationsurface
area×dielectricCapacitance =
charge separation
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Why are EDLs important?
EDLCapacitor
High surface area electrodes(1000+ meters2/gram)
Nanoscale charge separation
Parallel PlateCapacitor
High Power Density
surface area×dielectricCapacitan
ce =charge separation
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EDLC energy densities are almost comparable to batteries
Parallel PlateCapacitor
“Supercapacitor”
High Power Density
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EDLC energy densities are almost comparable to batteries
Parallel PlateCapacitor
“Supercapacitors”
High Power Density
*This requires more than one EDLC…
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Experiments show specific chemistry determines EDL behavior
EDLC
Porous Electrode
Current CollectorSeparator
Solvated AnionCation
“Supercapacitors”
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Experiments show specific chemistry determines EDL behavior
• Capacitance increases:– with voltage, until ions pack at
interface– when ions & pores are same size
[1]
“Supercapacitors”
[1] Chmiola, Science, ’06
EDLC
Porous Electrode
Current CollectorSeparator
Solvated AnionCation
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Experiments show specific chemistry determines EDL behavior
• Capacitance increases:– with voltage, until ions pack at
interface– when ions & pores are same size
[1]• Voltage and charge density
depend on– interactions between ions, solvent,
and the surface [2]– equilibrium fluctuations
“Supercapacitors”
[1] Chmiola, Science, ’06
[2] Israelachvili, ‘92
Porous Electrode
Current CollectorSeparator
Solvated AnionCation
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How can we model planar EDLs?• Theoretical modeling
– Mean-field local-density approximations (LDAs)
– Integral equation theories• Compuational modeling
– Molecular dynamics– Monte Carlo– Density functional theory
Porous Electrode
Current CollectorSeparator
Solvated AnionCation
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How can we model planar EDLs?• Theoretical modeling
– Mean-field local-density approximations (LDAs)
– Integral equation theories• Compuational modeling
– Molecular dynamics– Monte Carlo– Density functional theory
Porous Electrode
Current CollectorSeparator
Solvated AnionCation
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“Local-density approximations” are easy to use & physically insightful
• Mean-field LDAs model many-body interactions with simple effective fields
• LDAs neglect structuring effects due to ion-surface, ion-ion, and ion-solvent correlations
• LDAs are prone to fail near highly charged electrodes
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Simplest LDA: Gouy-Chapman theory
GC assumes:– Continuum
solvent– Uniform surface
charge density,– Point-sized ions
GC works for:– Negligible volume
fractions, – Weakly charged
electrodes,
• Mean-field LDAs model many-body interactions with simple effective fields
• LDAs neglect structuring effects due to ion-surface, ion-ion, and ion-solvent correlations
• LDAs are prone to fail near highly charged electrodes
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Gouy-Chapman predicts divergent free charge densities
• Mean-field LDAs model many-body interactions with simple effective fields
• LDAs neglect structuring effects due to ion-surface, ion-ion, and ion-solvent correlations
• LDAs are prone to fail near highly charged electrodes
GC assumes:– Continuum
solvent– Uniform surface
charge density,– Point-sized ions
GC works for:– Negligible volume
fractions, – Weakly charged
electrodes,
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Should we derive improved LDAs…• Mean-field LDAs model many-
body interactions with simple effective fields
• Primitive Model explicitly calculate many-body interactions with pairwise potentials– EDL with tunable ion size,
valence, and concentration
or try more sophisticated models?
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Model-free test of LDA behavior in planar EDLs
Mean-field models modified to account for non-GC behavior.
PM with tunable characteristic scales.
We derived a test to systematically determine whether LDAs can possibly describe an EDL that:
• exploits the “similarity” of LDAs
• only requires measured or simulated EDLs
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Weakly-charged EDLs with low volume fractions:
Primitive Model LAMMPS simulation that treats 0.01
M [NaCl]:• as repulsive WCA ions
• with long-range electrostatics
• in an implicit Langevin solvent
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Weakly-charged EDLs with low volume fractions:
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GC accurately predicts low volume fraction EDLs
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GC theory exhibits “similarity”
fromlowercan be shifted bulkwards onto higher
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If measured EDL profiles are similar, then there exists a suitable LDA.
fromlowercan be shifted bulkwards onto higher
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All mean-field LDAs exhibit similarity
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All mean-field LDAs exhibit similarity
LDA ions do not “know” where the wall is:Effective charge
density:
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All mean-field LDAs exhibit similarity
LDA ions do not “know” where the wall is:Effective charge
density:Combining these expressions:
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Solving with Method of Characteristics
• Given the free charge density at contact, dddddddd can be solved explicitly
• then collapses LDA EDLs in a given electrolyte onto a single master curve– If not, the LDA approach itself is
bound to fail.
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Solving with Method of Characteristics
• Given the free charge density at contact, dddddddd can be solved explicitly
• then collapses LDA EDLs in a given electrolyte onto a single master curve– If not, the LDA approach itself is
bound to fail.
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Gouy-Chapman theory permits an analytical solution
Known from GC theory
(or simulated profiles)
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Gouy-Chapman theory permits an analytical solution
Known from GC theory
(or simulated profiles)
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SGC collapses point-like EDL regimes
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Solution yields a similarity coordinate that characterizes the GC model
Dilute limit:
Strong-coupling limit:
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Solution yields a similarity coordinate that characterizes the GC model
Dilute limit:
Strong-coupling limit:
GC works near
the bulk.GC fails near the interface.
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SCS collapses 100 Gouy-Chapman like simulations
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SCS collapses 100 Gouy-Chapman like simulations
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SCS collapses 100 Gouy-Chapman like simulations
Dilute limit:
Strong-coupling limit:
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Dilute limit:
Strong-coupling limit:
Without assumptions, we can test if an arbitrary LDA will ever work• LDA models restrict electric double layer
profiles to be “similar”– This may not be true for actual EDLs
• “Similarity variables” S can be derived from LDAs that characterize the system
• Our approach will reveal whether measured or computed profiles exhibit LDA behavior– Or where more complicated modeling methods are
required
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Improved LDAs have better models for the excess chemical potential,
Gouy-Chapman
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Easiest improvement to GC requires a better approximation of the excluded volume
Carnahan-Starling chemical potential for hard spheres:
Gouy-Chapman
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Carnahan-Staling LDA that uses hard-sphere equation of state
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Carnahan-Staling LDA that uses hard-sphere equation of state
Increasing
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Carnahan-Staling LDA that uses hard-sphere equation of state
Increasing
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SCS collapses 10 moderate volume fraction EDLs
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Model-free test of LDA behavior in planar EDLs• Similarity variables from distinct LDAs have
distinct functional forms– SGC is bounded and collapses pointlike EDL profiles– SCS is unbounded and collapses semidilute EDL
profiles• Differences in S between anodic and cathodic
EDLs immediately reveal anions and cations to have different size and/or valency
• The general LDA mean-field approach will fail when EDL profiles deviate from collapse along S
C
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Measured excluded volume chemical potential:in the bulk
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Measured excluded volume chemical potential:near the bulk
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Measured excluded volume chemical potential:near the wall
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The chemical potential determines the distribution of ions
Differential change in
energy upon adding one
more neutral particle
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Bikerman theory replaces point-size ions with lattices that saturate at the surface
Gouy-Chapman:
Lattice ions [5]:
[5] Bikerman, 1942