Recent advances in liquid mixtures in electric fields
arXiv:1701.02482 · doi:10.1088/1361-648X/29/6/063002
Abstract
When immiscible liquids are subject to electric fields interfacial forces arise due to a difference in the permittivity or the conductance of the liquids, and these forces lead to shape change in droplets or to interfacial instabilities. In this Topical Review we discuss recent advances in the theory and experiments of liquids in electric fields with an emphasis on liquids which are initially miscible and demix under the influence of an external field. In purely dielectric liquids demixing occurs if the electrode geometry leads to sufficiently large field gradients. In polar liquids field gradients are prevalent due to screening by dissociated ions irrespective of the electrode geometry. We examine the conditions for these "electro prewetting" transitions and highlight few possible systems where they might be important, such as in stabilization of colloids and in gating of pores in membranes.
Topical Review
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