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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Rajni
• Nandkeolyar, Raj
• Sharma, Rajesh

Titel

2-Dimensional study of ion size effects on nanoflows

Ist Teil von

• AIP Conference Proceedings, 2022, Vol.2435 (1)

Ort / Verlag

Melville: American Institute of Physics

Erscheinungsjahr

2022

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• With an overlapped electric double layer formed in a nanochannel, the electrolyte is subjected to two kind of interactions, the van der Waals interactions and the electric double layer (EDL) electrostatic interactions. The operating scale is different for these interactions. The electrostatic interaction formed near the interface is of significant interest in several applications from electrochemistry to nanofluidics. The classical Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) theory explains the EDL potential in detail, but this theory fails at smaller separation distances. Electric Double Layer (EDL) has great influence on fluid flows in nanochannels. Most of the nanochannels have circular or rectangular cross-section. Hence, there is a need to undertake thorough investigation of EDL effect in two dimensional nanochannels. In nanoconfinements electrolytes form an overlapped EDL. At this scale, the ion size and the nanochannel gap size becomes comparable. The steric effects become significant and thus, ion size cannot be neglected. In the present work, an analysis is performed to observe the steric effects on the electric potential distribution in a nanochannel. Then the analysis is moved on to the effects of the hydraulic diameter on electric potential distribution. The Modified Poisson- Boltzmann equation proposed originally by Bikerman (Philos. Mag. 1942, 33, 384) is solved numerically with the constant surface potential condition. This equation is highly nonlinear and thus numerical techniques have been used for its solution. In this paper, Bikerman's model equation is solved through numerical method to analyze the steric effects of ions on the electric potential distribution and ionic concentration in a nanochannel with variation in hydraulic diameter for a rectangular nanochannel. The electrokinetic phenomena is investigated in terms of the nanochannel electric potential, the steric factor and the nanochannel gap size. Investigations reveal the relation between EDL overlap phenomenon and finite size effects.