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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 145, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4959034
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- French Research Program ANR-BLANC (TRANSION Project) [ANR-2012-BS08-0023]
- French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- University of Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier
- University of Montpellier
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We employ a field-theoretical variational approach to study the behavior of ionic solutions in the grand canonical ensemble. To describe properly the hardcore interactions between ions, we use a cutoff in Fourier space for the electrostatic contribution of the grand potential and the Carnahan-Starling equation of state with a modified chemical potential for the pressure one. We first calibrate our method by comparing its predictions at room temperature with Monte Carlo results for excess chemical potential and energy. We then validate our approach in the bulk phase by describing the classical ionic liquid-vapor phase transition induced by ionic correlations at low temperature, before applying it to electrolytes at room temperature confined to nanopores embedded in a low dielectric medium and coupled to an external reservoir of ions. The ionic concentration in the nanopore is then correctly described from very low bulk concentrations, where dielectric exclusion shifts the transition up to room temperature for sufficiently tight nanopores, to high concentrations where hardcore interactions dominate which, as expected, modify only slightly this ionic capillary evaporation. Published by AIP Publishing.
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