期刊
MOLECULAR PHYSICS
卷 107, 期 23-24, 页码 2609-2624出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/00268970903469022
关键词
density functional theory; 'semi-primitive' model; wetting; drying
资金
- Cambridge European Trust
- Corpus Christi College Cambridge
- Schlumberger Cambridge Research
- EPSRC
Classical density functional theory (DFT) of inhomogeneous fluids is applied to an explicit solvent 'semi-primitive' model (SPM) of ionic solutions to investigate the influence of ionic solutes on the wetting behaviour of a solvent in contact with a neutral or charged planar substrate. The SPM is made up of three species of hard sphere particles with different diameters, interacting via an attractive Yukawa potential to model excluded volume and cohesion. The solvent particles are neutral, while the monovalent anions and cations are oppositely charged. The polar nature of the solvent is modelled by a continuum dielectric permittivity linked to the local solvent density. All three species interact with the impenetrable substrate via an attractive external potential. While excluded volume effects are accurately described by a Rosenfeld 'fundamental measure' free energy functional, the short range Yukawa attraction and Coulombic interactions are treated within the mean-field approximation. The ionic solutes are found to have a significant impact on the wetting behaviour of the solvent, in particular on the wetting temperature. Strong electric fields, or long-ranged (weakly screened) Coulombic forces are shown to have the propensity to change the wetting transition from second to first order. The cation-anion size asymmetry leads to charge separation on the liquid-vapour interface of the solution, which in turn can induce a drying transition on the liquid side of liquid-vapour coexistence.
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