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Bayesian unsupervised learning reveals hidden structure in concentrated electrolytes
Penelope Jones, Fabian Coupette, Andreas Härtel +1
Electrolytes play an important role in a plethora of applications ranging from energy storage to biomaterials. Notwithstanding this, the structure of concentrated electrolytes rema…
Machine learnt approximations to the bridge function yield improved closures for the Ornstein-Zernike equation
Rhys E. A. Goodall, Alpha A. Lee
A key challenge for soft materials design and coarse-graining simulations is determining interaction potentials between components that give rise to desired condensed-phase structu…
Casimir force in dense confined electrolytes
Alpha A. Lee, Jean-Pierre Hansen, Olivier Bernard +1
Understanding the force between charged surfaces immersed in an electrolyte solution is a classic problem in soft matter and liquid-state theory. Recent experiments showed that the…
Controlling polyelectrolyte adsorption onto carbon nanotubes by tuning ion-image interactions
Alpha A. Lee, Sarah V. Kostinski, Michael P. Brenner
Understanding and controlling polyelectrolyte adsorption onto carbon nanotubes is a fundamen- tal challenge in nanotechology. Polyelectrolytes have been shown to stabilise nanotube…
Scaling analysis of the screening length in concentrated electrolytes
Alpha A. Lee, Carla Perez-Martinez, Alexander M. Smith +1
The interaction between charged objects in an electrolyte solution is a fundamental question in soft matter physics. It is well-known that the electrostatic contribution to the int…
Switching the structural force in ionic liquid-solvent mixtures by varying composition
Alexander Smith, Alpha Lee, Susan Perkin
The structure and interactions in electrolytes at high concentration have implications from energy storage to biomolecular interactions. However many experimental observations are…
Hot Particles Attract in a Cold Bath
Hidenori Tanaka, Alpha A. Lee, Michael P. Brenner
Controlling interactions out of thermodynamic equilibrium is crucial for designing addressable and functional self-organizing structures. These active interactions also underpin co…
The Electrostatic Screening Length in Concentrated Electrolytes Increases with Concentration
Alexander M. Smith, Alpha A. Lee, Susan Perkin
According to classical electrolyte theories interactions in dilute (low ion density) electrolytes decay exponentially with distance, with the Debye screening length the characteris…
The role of extensibility in the birth of a ruck in a rug
Alpha A. Lee, Clément Le Gouellec, Dominic Vella
Everyday experience suggests that a `ruck' forms when the two ends of a heavy carpet or rug are brought closer together. Classical analysis, however, shows that the horizontal comp…
Degenerate Mobilities in Phase Field Models are Insufficient to Capture Surface Diffusion
Alpha A Lee, Andreas Münch, Endre Süli
Phase field models frequently provide insight to phase transitions, and are robust numerical tools to solve free boundary problems corresponding to the motion of interfaces. A body…
Fluctuation Spectra and Force Generation in Non-equilibrium Systems
Alpha A. Lee, Dominic Vella, John S. Wettlaufer
Many biological systems are appropriately viewed as passive inclusions immersed in an active bath: from proteins on active membranes to microscopic swimmers confined by boundaries.…
Dynamics of Ion Transport in Ionic Liquids
Alpha A. Lee, Svyatoslav Kondrat, Dominic Vella +1
A gap in understanding the link between continuum theories of ion transport in ionic liquids and the underlying microscopic dynamics has hindered the development of frameworks for…
Are Room Temperature Ionic Liquids Dilute Electrolytes?
Alpha A Lee, Dominic Vella, Susan Perkin +1
An important question in understanding the structure of ionic liquids is whether ions are truly "free" and mobile which would correspond to a concentrated ionic melt, or are rather…
Unravelling Nanoconfined Films of Ionic Liquids
Alpha A Lee, Dominic Vella, Susan Perkin +1
The confinement of an ionic liquid between charged solid surfaces is treated using an exactly solvable 1D Coulomb gas model. The theory highlights the importance of two dimensionle…
Electroactuation with Single Charge Carrier Ionomers
Alpha A. Lee, Ralph H. Colby, Alexei A. Kornyshev
A simple theory of electromechanical transduction for single-charge-carrier double-layer electroactuators is developed, in which the ion distribution and curvature are mutually cou…