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SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS
Volume 78, Issue 3, Pages 1802-1822Publisher
SIAM PUBLICATIONS
DOI: 10.1137/18M1167218
Keywords
Poisson-Nernst-Planck equations; dielectric interfaces; matched asymptotic expansion; boundary layers
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- NSFC [11571236, 21773165, 11601361]
- HPC Center of Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20160302, Q410700415]
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The charge transport in an environment with inhomogeneous dielectric permittivity is ubiquitous in many areas such as electrochemical energy devices and biophysical systems. We theoretically study the equilibrium and dynamics of electrolytes between two blocking electrodes based on a modified Poisson-Nernst-Planck model with the dielectric boundary effect. Matched asymptotic analysis shows that a two-layer interfacial structure exists in the vicinity of the interfaces when the dielectric self-energy correction to the potential mean force is relatively weak. For this two-layer structured solution, the dielectric effect plays the dominate role in the first layer, while the solution in the second layer is mainly determined by the classical Poisson-Boltzmann equation. When the dielectric self energy becomes stronger, there is only one interfacial layer which is governed by the modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation with the dielectric self-energy correction in the Boltzmann factor. We perform a systematic investigation for symmetric and asymmetric electrolytes on ionic concentrations, electrostatic potential, diffuse charges, differential capacitance, and charge inversion phenomenon to show the effects of the dielectric inhomogeneity on the solutions near interfaces.
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