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The Preparation of Electrohydrodynamic Bridges from Polar Dielectric Liquids
Published on: September 30, 2014
Anomalous dielectric behavior of water in ionic newton black films
Jordi Faraudo1, Fernando Bresme
1Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom. Jordi.Faraudo@uab.es
Abstract:
The electrostatics of two charged surfactant layers in aqueous media (surfactant/water/surfactant films) is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. In the films studied (with a surfactant-surfactant distance from approximately 35 A to contact) we observe an anomalous dielectric response of water. The electrostatic potential phi(z) inside the aqueous core of the films (containing bulk water with rho=1 g/cm(3)) is completely different from that expected for a film containing a dielectric medium with the dielectric constant of water. In addition, our results are not consistent with a local relation between the water polarization P(z)(z) and the electric field E(z)(z). The polarization P(z)(z) is maximum at the interfaces (due to solvent molecules forming part of the structure of the surfactant layers) and decays from the interfaces inside the aqueous core with a decay length of order of approximately 10 A.
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