Keywords
Monte Carlon simulation, capitance, double layer, molten salt, charged hard spheres
Abstract
Monte Carlo simulations are reported for charged hard spheres at high density near a charged wall. This system is a simple model for a molten salt double layer. Unfortunately, the reduced temperatures that correspond to experiment are very small. This results in a large Boltzmann factor. As a result, we are unable to obtain meaningful results for such low values and report results only for moderately low values of the reduced temperature. Even so, our results should be a useful benchmark. Further, we are able to give a qualitative answer to an interesting question. We find that at low temperatures the capacitance near the point of zero charge increases with increasing temperature. This agrees with experiment for molten salts and disagrees with the behavior of double layer in dissolved salts, which can be modeled with low density and high temperature charged hard spheres near a wall. This also disagrees with the predictions of the Gouy-Chapman theory and the mean spherical approximation. It appears that it is the approximations, and not the charged hard sphere double layer model, that are at fault for describing double layers in molten salts
Original Publication Citation
Boda, Dezso, Douglas Henderson, and Kwong Y. Chan."Monte Carlo study of the capacitance of the double layer in a model molten salt." The Journal of Chemical Physics 11 (1999): 5346-535.
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Henderson, Douglas; Boda, Dezso; and Chan, Kwong-Yu, "Monte Carlo study of the capacitance of the double layer in a model molten salt" (1999). Faculty Publications. 626.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/626
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
1999-03-15
Permanent URL
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/1328
Publisher
AIP
Language
English
College
Physical and Mathematical Sciences
Department
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Copyright Status
© 1999 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in The Journal of Chemical Physics and may be found at http://link.aip.org/link/?JCPSA6/110/5346/1
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