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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 111, Issue 18, Pages 4877-4884Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp067184+
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/D029538/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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The response of a room temperature molten salt to an external electric field when it is confined to a nanoslit is studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The fluid is confined between two parallel and oppositely charged walls, emulating two electrified solid-liquid interfaces. Attention is focused on structural, electrostatic, and dynamical properties, which are compared with those of the nonpolarized fluid. It is found that the relaxation of the electrostatic potential, after switching the electric field off, occurs in two stages. A first, subpicosecond process accounts for 80% of the decay and is followed by a second subdiffusive process with a time constant of 8 ps. Diffusion is not involved in the relaxation, which is mostly driven by small anion translations. The relaxation of the polarization in the confined system is discussed in terms of the spectrum of charge density fluctuations in the bulk.
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