• 文献标题:   On the molecular mechanism of surface charge amplification and related phenomena at aqueous polyelectrolyte-graphene interfaces
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   CHIALVO AA, SIMONSON JM
  • 作者关键词:   molecular simulation, solidfluid interface, aqueous polyelectrolyte, surface charge amplification, charge inversion reversal
  • 出版物名称:   CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   1607-324X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Oak Ridge Natl Lab
  • 被引频次:   8
  • DOI:   10.5488/CMP.14.33002
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

In this communication we illustrate the occurrence of a recently reported new phenomenon of surface-charge amplification, SCA, (originally dubbed overcharging, OC), [Jimenez-Angeles F. and Lozada-Cassou M., J. Phys. Chem. B, 2004, 108, 7286] by means of molecular dynamics simulation of aqueous electrolytes solutions involving multivalent cations in contact with charged graphene walls and the presence of short-chain lithium polystyrene sulfonates where the solvent water is described explicitly with a realistic molecular model. We show that the occurrence of SCA in these systems, in contrast to that observed in primitive models, involves neither contact co-adsorption of the negatively charged macroions nor divalent cations with a large size and charge asymmetry as required in the case of implicit solvents. In fact the SCA phenomenon hinges around the preferential adsorption of water (over the hydrated ions) with an average dipolar orientation such that the charges of the water's hydrogen and oxygen sites induce magnification rather than screening of the positive-charged graphene surface, within a limited range of surface-charge density.