5 papers
Accelerating charging dynamics of electric double-layer capacitors
Megh Dutta, Ivan Palaia, Emmanuel Trizac +1
Electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), consisting of an ionic fluid between two metallic electrodes, are electrochemical energy storage devices complementary to batteries, allow…
Beads, springs and fields: particle-based vs continuum models in cell biophysics
Valerio Sorichetti, Juraj Májek, Ivan Palaia +4
Quantitative modeling has become an essential tool in modern biophysics, driven by advances in both experimental techniques and theoretical frameworks. Powerful high-resolution tec…
Huygens' clocks at the microscale
Yaocheng Li, Ivan Palaia, Jinzi Mac Huang +2
Weakly coupled oscillators adjust their dynamics to work in unison: they synchronize. This ubiquitous phenomenon is observed for oscillating pendulum, electronic devices, as well a…
Poisson-Nernst-Planck charging dynamics of an electric double layer capacitor: symmetric and asymmetric binary electrolytes
Ivan Palaia, Adelchi J. Asta, Megh Dutta +3
A parallel plate capacitor containing an electrolytic solution is the simplest model of a supercapacitor, or electric double layer capacitor. Using both analytical and numerical te…
Charging dynamics of electric double layer nanocapacitors in mean-field
Ivan Palaia, Adelchi J. Asta, Megh Dutta +3
An electric double layer capacitor (EDLC) stores energy by modulating the spatial distribution of ions in the electrolytic solution that it contains. We determine the mean-field ti…