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Molten-Salt Synthesis of Complex Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
Published on: October 27, 2018
Monte Carlo study of molten salt with charge asymmetry near the electrode surface
Jacek Kłos1, Stanisław Lamperski1
1Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, A. Mickiewicz University of Poznań, ul. Umultowska 89b, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
Abstract:
Results of the Monte Carlo simulation of the electrode | molten salt or ionic liquid interface are reported. The system investigated is approximated by the primitive model of electrolyte being in contact with a charged hard wall. Ions differ in charges, namely anions are divalent and cations are monovalent but they are of the same diameter d = 400 pm. The temperature analysis of heat capacity at a constant volume Cv and the anion radial distribution function, g2-/2-, allowed the choice of temperature of the study, which is T = 2800 K and corresponds to T(*) = 0.34 (definition of reduced temperature T(*) in text). The differential capacitance curve of the interface with the molten salt or ionic liquid at c = 5.79 M has a distorted bell shape. It is shown that with increasing electrolyte concentration from c = 0.4 to 5 M the differential capacitance curves undergo transition from U shape to bell shape.
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